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Navigating easily by saving and restoring views in AutoCAD

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Navigating easily by saving and restoring views in AutoCAD

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- [Instructor] Once again, we are staying in our 00-GND Floor Plan.dwg file. And in this particular video, you'll notice I've returned us back to the Model tab in the drawing. So, make sure you're in the Model tab. Now, as I mentioned previously, this is quite a large floor plan. It's roughly 30 meters by 30 meters approximately, but that's a lot of space to navigate in a drawing when you need to keep zooming in and out to work on details, specifically in the drawing itself. You might need to go to a specific room and edit objects in a specific room, like chairs, desks, tables. Or, perhaps in the restrooms, you might be changing the layout of the restrooms, perhaps for disabled access or something along those lines. Now, sometimes you will return to specific areas in your drawing to work on specific objects. Now what's really nice about AutoCAD is you can save those views that you need to get to. They're called named views in AutoCAD, and you can save them and restore them to get back…

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