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Creating viewports

Creating viewports - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Creating viewports

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- [Instructor] Now that we have all of our annotations set, we have the dimensions, the leaders, the callouts, the table for the door schedule and everything is already set and ready to go, we're now ready to start moving this information on to our title block, so we're that much closer to producing our working set. There are two ways of going about this. I'm going to show you the older way, which is creating a viewport, panning and zooming around to get the proper view, setting your scale, locking it, and then adjusting the edges of the viewport. And then I'm also going to show you the newer way, about inserting a named view. Since we've taken the time to create our named views, we're going to utilize that to simplify or streamline getting these into our title block. So, the first thing we need to do, is switch over to paper space. So, I'm going to switch over to my ANSI B layout, here. I'm going to make sure that I'm on…

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