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Creating layouts

Creating layouts - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Creating layouts

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- [Instructor] A standard drawing package may include several sheets, so we're often required to create several layouts for our drawings. By default, AutoCAD templates typically have two layouts already down here, creatively named Layout One and Layout Two. We can access them just by clicking on them here. Here in Layout One, we can see a single Viewport has already been created for us. For the purposes of this lesson, we're going to delete this Viewport, and we'll create our own later. To start off, I want to draw a rectangle to represent the piece of paper that I'm eventually going to print on. I'm going to use the Rectangle tool, and for the lower-left corner point, I'm going to type in 0,0 and press Return. Now, this is going to be a standard letter-size piece of paper in landscape mode, so I'm going to type in 11, 8.5 for the other corner and press Return. Now, most printers can't print all the way to the edge of…

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