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Aligning your layout viewports with the Align Space command

Aligning your layout viewports with the Align Space command - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Aligning your layout viewports with the Align Space command

- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick in the world of AutoCAD. We're going to be looking at one of the AutoCAD express tools today, called Align Space. Before we do that though, we've got a drawing for you called AlignSpace.dwg. And as usual, you can download that from the library to follow along with this particular AutoCAD tip and trick. So, we are in the A3 landscape tab in the layout tabs in the drawing. So, you've got four equally spaced viewports. What I'd like you to do is zoom in on the top left viewport a little. Get it so it's nice and central on your AutoCAD screen, like that. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to align the space. And in order to do that, we want to basically align what's in the viewport to a different position in the layout in the viewport. Now, that's much, much easier to show you than it is to explain. So, we go to the Express Tools tab in the AutoCAD window and we go to the Layout panel. And there's Align Space there. So we click on…

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