AutoCAD: Spaces and Workspaces

- [Instructor] The day-to-day workflows and processes in AutoCAD are there to allow you to generate your designs and communicate your design intent. So when you're designing in AutoCAD, you would use the model space, or the model tab, as it's known. So you'll notice we have a drawing on the screen. That's currently in the model tab, and you would design full size in that model space. So for example, this drawing is drawn in metric millimeters, and everything is drawn full size in those metric millimeters in the model space, in the model tab. You would then communicate your design intent by way of layout tabs with scaled viewports. For example, there's no way you can get this entire ground floor plan onto a sheet of paper, for example. So what you do is you use a layout tab like so, and you generate a title block and you use a thing called a scaled viewport here, like so. So that you can see into the model space, but scale it as you can see, at a scale of one to 100, to fit it onto your sheet of paper. That's the essence of AutoCAD. You work between the model space, the model tab, and the paper space, also known as your layout tabs. There are also workspaces available in AutoCAD as well. Those workspaces are generated down here from the status bar, and you'll notice the default ones there are drafting and annotation, 3D basics, and 3D modeling. Now in this particular course, we don't go into anything that is 3D. However, we do discuss the spaces and the workspaces available to you. So as you can see, AutoCAD is a complex product with different spaces and workspaces that you can use to generate your designs and communicate your design intent.