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Using viewports

Using viewports - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using viewports

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our LayoutsPrinting_HOUSE.dwg file, and as you can see, we're still in the entrance hall Layout tab that we created in the previous video when we set up the new layout to use for the entrance hall. Now at the moment, the viewport is still showing the living room because we, remember, moved and copied the layout of the living room and created the new entrance hall layout tab, so we're going to double-click inside the viewport, but make sure you are in the entrance hall layout tab. You don't want to mess up your living room layout tab. So I'm going to double-click there and that now makes that viewport active, and we're going to utilize that viewport to show the entrance hall. So you can zoom out of it, and then pan across there and the entrance hall is just here. So I'm going to zoom in there and get a view of that inside that viewport. Now, because I've done a bit of zooming and panning, you'll notice that the scale down here is a non-standard viewport…

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