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Adding fields for drawing views scales in the layout tab

Adding fields for drawing views scales in the layout tab - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Adding fields for drawing views scales in the layout tab

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- We're staying in our Metal Plate_FINAL DESIGN.DWG file. And in the previous video we added our text labels using our new text style to each of the view ports so that we can see what's going on with our drawing and what the viewports represent. I'm going to zoom in on the plan view viewport. Now just be careful here. Make sure your viewports are deactivated. If your viewport looks like that, move away from it. Double click outside in the gray area to make sure it's deactivated, okay? Otherwise, if you start zooming and panning you'll mess up your viewport scale. Zoom in on the plan view a little bit. It's just so you can see what I'm doing more than anything else. Now I've got the plan view text here. I'm going to double click on it and just click to the end of the W there so that the little cursor is ready to edit. I'm now going to edit the text by adding a space and then I'm going to add a little bracket, a…

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