From the course: AutoCAD: Plotting & Publishing
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The Layout tab - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Plotting & Publishing
The Layout tab
- [Voiceover] So in the previous video we looked at the model tab. What we're going to look at now in our drawing is the layout tab, or tabs. When you're working in a DWG file, you can have as many layout tabs as you like. Also you don't go too crazy, you don't want 250, that would make the things being a little too complex, but the whole idea is that you have the one model tab, which you cannot replicate or copy, but you do have a number of layout tabs that you can work with. Now your layout tabs are your paper space when you're working in AutoCAD. In much, much older versions of AutoCAD, you used to have to type a command called Tile Mode, and Tile Mode was either set to one or zero, and that would depend on whether you were in model space or paper space, the one or zero would act as a toggle, or a switch, between each space. As we moved into things like Microsoft Windows, it became much, much easier to create an interface where you had tabs that allow you to move between the…
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