From the course: AutoCAD 2016 Essential Training
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Creating a layout
- In this video, we will create and configure a layout. Open the Architectural sample file in the Chapter 15 folder. Before we dive into creating the layout, let's go into Options. Type O P enter. Click on the Display tab. Down here you'll find check boxes that are related to layouts. Let's choose to Display the Layout and Model tabs. This will be an alternative interface that appears down here in the lower left corner of the screen. We will display the printable area, this will appear as a dashed line on the layout. We will also show the paper background and a shadow. Let's deselect these two options at first. I'd like to show you how to create a page setup manually and how to create a viewport manually before we have AutoCAD do that for us automatically. Click OK. And let's also go to the View tab and turn on the File tabs if they're not already displayed. So now up here on the File tabs, you can position the cursor over the name of the file and you'll see this slide-out appear. You…
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Creating a layout4m 29s
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Configuring a viewport2m 56s
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Locking viewports1m 58s
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Freezing viewport layers3m 33s
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Drawing a title block5m 40s
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Creating annotative text styles3m 30s
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Creating annotative dimension styles and objects3m 19s
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Drawing and editing revision clouds2m 34s
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