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- [Instructor] Views are an easy way of remembering and storing different displays of our drawing. This includes both the zoom and pan location of your screen, as well as other important and useful things like the current layers state. Using this method, you can save a view of one corner of our project, and then quickly move to another area that might be hundreds of feet away. This saves us a lot of zooming and panning around our drawing. By saving what is known as the layer snapshot, you can also save the current on and off or frozen and thawed state of all layers in your drawing as well. This means that I can have a view for one room with all my layers turned on that I would need for demolition, and then I can save another view in another room, perhaps with just the layers I need for new framing. To save a view, we'll find the new view up here in the upper right corner. You can also type in the command simply by…

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