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Positioning viewports effectively

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Positioning viewports effectively

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our 09 elevations 3D house drawing, and as you can see I've left the drawing in the same state as it was at the end of the previous video. What we're going to look at in this particular video is making sure that we position our view ports effectively. Whilst we've got four nice equal view ports there that we set up in the previous chapter, you may remember, you can see there that we're using up quite a lot of the real estate in this actual layout, in this actual title block. We could potentially resize some of these view ports but keep the views in the view ports the same. So let's have a look at positioning these view ports effectively. What I would suggest that you do is that each view port that you work on, you unlock it, work on the view port, and then lock it again. What we'll do is we'll go with top left first, with the isometric view there, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to unlock it down here on the status bar. And then what I'm going to…

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