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Freezing viewport layers

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Freezing viewport layers

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our Layouts.dwg file and you'll notice that we're still in the STAIR A layout tab that we setup in the previous video. So we've got our viewport there looking at staircase A, and at the moment our viewport is locked. What we're going to look at now is freezing viewport layers. Now this is quite important because as you can see there if you look at the viewport at the moment, you can see the dimensions kind of half on and half off on the viewport there. Now if you want to freeze viewport layers you're going to have to unlock the viewport first. So you select the locked viewport, go down to the status bar, click on the little blue padlock and unlock it like so. And then just hit Escape a couple of times to deselect the viewport. We now need to activate the viewport. Now, there's a quicker way than double-clicking inside the viewport. If you come down here to the status bar and click on the paper button, it'll go to Model. As you can see, there's the Model…

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