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Views and Viewports

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Creating Your Own Working Views

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Views and Viewports

Zooming and panning can be time consuming.

Being able to quickly specify and recall a certain part of the drawing is much easier than zooming or panning.

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Creating Views

VIEW command allows you to create named views which can then quickly be recalled.

A view can be any portion of the drawing.

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Creating Views

Think of a view as a previously zoomed display that you can recall at any time.

Benefits

Magnification is the “right size”.

Text is legible.

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Creating Views

Access VIEWS by:

Picking Named Views button in the Viewpoint

toolbar.

Select Named Views from the View pull-down

menu.

Enter DDVIEW or V at the Command: prompt.

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Creating Views

The View Manager is where new views are defined.

Four Choices

Current

Model Views

Layout Views

Preset Views

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Creating Views

Model Views

A list of currently defined views is shown

Layout Views

A list of currently defined views is shown

Preset Views

Orthographic Views

Top, Bottom, Left, right, Front, Back

SW Isometric

SE Isometric

NE Isometric

NW Isometric

Model Views

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Layout Views

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Create A New View

Create a new view

Type VIEW or V

Click New

Give a name for the new view

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Creating Views

To make a view current:

Click on the view and then click “Set Current.”

Or

Double-click on the view, then hit ENTER

Fastest way

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Orthographic & Isometric Views

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Bottom

View

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Front

View

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Southwest

Isometric

View

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Southeast

Isometric

View

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Tiled Viewports

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Viewports

The AutoCAD Model tab screen may be divided into several “windows” called viewports.

Each viewport may display a different view or zoom of the current drawing.

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Viewports

Another type of viewport called “floating viewports” can be created in the Layout tab.

Tiled viewports - model space

Floating viewports - paper space.

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Viewports

Only one viewport is active at any one time in Model Space.

To activate another viewport, click on it.

When active, the viewport border is “thickened”.

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Viewports

You can draw between viewports.

You can start a line in one viewport and complete the line in another viewport.

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Viewports

To access Preset Viewports

Pick the Display Viewports Dialog button from

the Standard, Layouts, or Viewports toolbars.

Enter VPORTS at the Command: prompt.

Select New Viewports from the Viewports

cascading menu in the View pull-down menu.

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Creating Tiled Viewports

Model Space:

Tiled viewports

Created with the VPORTS command.

48 max

Only one viewport contains the cross hairs at

any one time.

Preset tiled viewports can be selected

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Uses of Tiled Viewports

Model Space:

Each viewport is a separate screen

REDRAW or REGEN separately

REDRAWALL redraws all viewports

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Creating Floating Viewports

The VPORTS Command

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Creating Floating Viewports

Creating floating viewports in Paper Space is very similar to creating Tiled Viewports in Model Space.

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Creating Floating Viewports

A view port configuration can be selected from the Viewports dialog box.

Use the VPORTS command.

The MVIEW command can also be used.

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Creating Floating Viewports

When Model Space is active

The Viewports dialog box creates tiled

viewports.

When paper space is active

The Viewports dialog box creates floating

viewports.

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Creating Floating Viewports

Use Spacing to set the space around the edges of the floating viewports.

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The MVIEW Command Options

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Creating Floating Viewports

MV, MVIEW or -VPORTS options:

ON

OFF

Fit

Hideplot

Lock

Object

Polygonal

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Creating Floating Viewports

ON

Activates the model space display within a

view port.

OFF

Deactivates a model space display within a

view port.

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Creating Floating Viewports

Fit

Default option.

Creates a single rectangular floating viewport

that fills the entire printable area on the sheet.

The sub options 2, 3, 4 can be used to create

multiple viewports.

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Creating Floating Viewports

Hideplot

Prevents hidden lines in a 3D model from

being plotted.

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Creating Floating Viewports

Lock

Locks the view in one or more viewports.

When a viewport is locked, objects in the view

port can be edited and new objects added

but:

Display commands like Zoom and Pan are

disabled.

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Creating Floating Viewports

Object

Use to change a closed object drawn in paper space

into a floating viewport.

Existing

Circles

Ellipses

Polygons and

other closed shapes

can be used as floating viewport outlines.

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Creating Floating Viewports

Polygonal

Draw a floating viewport outline using a

polyline.

Any shape can be used.

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Creating Floating Viewports

OR

Draw the shape in paper space using the

POLYGON command.

Use MVIEW command

Select Object sub-menu option to make the

object a viewport.

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Zoom to Paper Space

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Zoom To Paper Space

A viewport in Paper Space must be zoomed to the correct magnification if it is to be plotted to scale.

The Zoom Command is used to zoom a viewport.

Zoom To Paper Space

Zoom Scale has two options:

nX

And

nXP

nX scales the display relative to the current display

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Zoom To Paper Space

“Zoom xp” is the common term used when describing zooming a viewport to the correct magnification.

Zoom 1/nXP

Scales the drawing in Model Space relative to

Paper Space.

Is used primarily in the layout of scaled

multivew drawings.

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ZOOM

COMMAND YOU WILL LEARN !

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Zoom To Paper Space

Examples:

To zoom a viewport to 1:4

Zoom 1/4XP

To zoom a viewport to 1:16

Zoom 1/16XP

To zoom a viewport to 1:48

Zoom 1/48XP

To zoom a viewport to 1:96

Zoom 1/96XP

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Creating New Paper Space Layouts

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New Paper Space Layouts

Create New Paper Space layouts by right-clicking the Layout Tab at the bottom of the screen.

Select “New Layout”.

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New Paper Space Layouts

The new layout will be created.

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