Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
CREATING MULTIPLE VIEWS
So far, you've looked at ways to help you get around in your drawing while using a single view
window. You can also set up multiple views of your drawing, called
viewports
. With viewports,
you can display more than one view of your drawing at one time in the AutoCAD drawing area. For
example, one viewport can display a close-up of the bathroom, another viewport can display the
overall plan view, and yet another can display the unit plan.
When viewports are combined with AutoCAD's Paper Space feature, you can print multiple views
of your drawing. Paper Space is a display mode that lets you paste up multiple views of a drawing,
much like a page-layout program. To find out more about v iew por ts and Paper Space, see Chapter 14,
“Advanced Editing and Organizing.”
Saving Views
Another way to control your views is by saving them. You might think of saving views as a way
of creating a bookmark or a placeholder in your drawing.
For example, a few walls in the Plan drawing aren't complete. To add the lines, you'll need to
zoom in to the areas that need work, but these areas are spread out over the drawing. AutoCAD
lets you save views of the areas you want to work on and then jump from saved view to saved
view. This technique is especially helpful when you know you'll often want to return to a spe-
cific area of your drawing.
You'll see how to save and recall views in the following set of exercises. We'll save a view of
the elevator lobby:
1.
Click the Zoom button from the status bar and then type
W
↵, or type
Z
↵
W
↵ and put a
window around the elevator lobby, as shown in Figure 7.4.
2.
Type
V
↵ at the command line.
FIGURE 7.4
Select this area for
your saved view.
Elevator Lobby
