From the course: AutoCAD for Mac 2020: Construction Drawings
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Viewport layer settings - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD for Mac 2020: Construction Drawings
Viewport layer settings
- As we're creating more viewports in our layouts, I want to take a step back and talk a little bit about layer management within our viewports. Viewports support a thing called viewport freeze. What this allows us to do is freeze a specific layer inside a single viewport. It might be a little bit easier to understand if I demonstrate. So I'm going to take my viewport here that we have, I'm going to move it over just a little bit, and then I'm going to come up to View, Viewports, one viewport and I'm going to create a new viewport right about here. Now this viewport currently has all the normal layers turned on or thawed. I'm going to double click inside this viewport and if we come over here to the viewport listing, we can see that we have a new icon that we haven't seen yet, and that's this little guy right here. This is viewport freeze. So what this is going to allow us to do is freeze a specific layer only in that…
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