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Positioning the elevation in the viewport

Positioning the elevation in the viewport - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: 2D & 3D Elevations

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Positioning the elevation in the viewport

- [Instructor] So we're staying in our 05 Elevations 2D House drawing, and we're keeping the viewports layer current up here at the moment in the quick access toolbar, and you can see that I'm in the contextual layout tab, because I'm in the Floor Plans 2D layout there, bottom left corner. Now, what we've done so far is create the elevation viewport, this viewport here, and what we've done is we've roughly positioned the east elevation view here in the viewport itself. Now, with the viewport deactivated, so if I double click inside the viewport, it's active, you can see it's bold. If I double click outside the viewport like that, it's deactivated. So make sure it's deactivated and then just pan and zoom a little bit, and what you want to do is be economical with your viewports. You can see here that the elevation is taking up a lot of viewport space that really isn't needed. So we're gonna position the elevation nicely in the viewport, so just click on the edge of the viewport like…

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