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397 LAYOUT - Working with named views and viewports

397 LAYOUT - Working with named views and viewports - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

397 LAYOUT - Working with named views and viewports

- Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD. In this particular Tips and Tricks video, we're going to be taking a look at how we can work with named views and put those named views automatically into view ports in the layout tab. So we have a drawing for you. It's called 397namedViewsandviewports.dwg. You can download it from the library to follow along with the tips and tricks video. When you open up the drawing, just make sure that you are initially in the model tab because that's where we're going to be setting up our named views. Now you'll notice this is quite a large floor plan. It's a big building and you can see the 2D floor plan there. You can see the stairs, you can see the desks, you can see the cubicles and so on. Now the whole idea is to navigate a large drawing like this, you need to set up some named views and then those named views can automatically be made into view ports working with them in your…

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