Graphics Programs Reference
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2. Click in the drawing area. A view of your drawing appears on a gray background, as
shown in Figure 8.9. This is a view of your drawing as it will appear when printed on
your current default printer. The white area represents the current paper size.
FIGURE 8.9
A view of Layout1
Printer margins
Representation
of paper
UCS icon
Viewport border
3. Try zooming in and out using the Zoom button or the scroll wheel of your mouse or a
single finger swipe on the Magic Mouse or trackpad. Notice that the entire image zooms
in and out, including the area representing the paper.
Layout views give you full control over the appearance of your drawing printouts. You can
print a layout view just as you did the view in Model Space.
Let's take a moment to look at the elements in the Layout1 view. As mentioned previously,
the white area represents the paper on which your drawing will be printed. The dashed line
immediately inside the edge of the white area represents the limits of your printer's margins.
Finally, the solid rectangle that surrounds your drawing is the outline of the viewport border.
A viewport is an AutoCAD object that works like a window into your drawing from the layout
view. Also notice the triangular symbol in the lower-left corner of the view: This is the UCS icon
for the layout view. It tells you that you're currently in layout view space. You'll see the signifi-
cance of this icon in the following exercise:
1. Try using a selection window to select the lobby area of your drawing. Nothing is
selected.
2. Click the viewport border, which is the rectangle surrounding the drawing, as shown in
Figure 8.9. This is the viewport into Model Space. Notice that you can select it.
3. You can see from the Properties Inspector palette that the viewport is just like any other
AutoCAD object with layer, linetype, and color assignments. You can even hide the view-
port outline by turning off its layer.
 
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