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Setting up an elevation viewport

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Setting up an elevation viewport

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- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now where we're going to start working with the annotation of the east elevation for the house. Now you'll remember in the previous chapter, we set up the dimensions layer, the dimensions style, and we placed some dimensions on the house plan view and the house east elevation. You can see those in your new drawing, which is 05 elevations 2D underscore house dot DWG. Now you can download this new drawing beginning with 05 from the website as usual, to follow along with the videos in this chapter. Like we've done previously, we'll work through each video and you add to the drawing as you go along, saving it and then moving into the next video. So what we're going to look at is actually annotating the elevation and setting up a new view port for the elevation, and making sure that all the annotation scales work correctly. So what we're going to do first is set up a view port for the elevation in the layout tab. So we're going to jump down here…

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