Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
into your Model Space. The effect is as if you have several video cameras in your Model Space
room, each connected to a different monitor. You can view all your windows at once on your com-
puter screen or enlarge a single window to fill the entire screen. Further, you can control the shape
of your windows and easily switch from one window to another. This is what Paper Space is like.
Paper Space lets you create and display multiple views of Model Space. Each view window,
called a
viewport
, acts like an individual virtual screen. One viewport can have an overall view
of your drawing, while another can be a close-up. You can also control layer visibility individu-
ally for each viewport and display different versions of the same area of your drawing. You
can move, copy, and stretch viewports and even overlap them. You can set up another type of
viewport, called the
tiled viewport
, in Model Space. Chapter 20, “Using Advanced 3D Features,”
discusses this type of viewport.
One of the most powerful features of Paper Space is the ability to print several views of the
same drawing on one sheet of paper. You can also include graphic objects such as borders and
notes that appear only in Paper Space. In this function, Paper Space acts much like a page-layout
program such as QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. You can paste up different views of your
drawing and then add borders, title blocks, general notes, and other types of graphic and textual
data. Figure 15.1 shows the Plan drawing set up in Paper Space mode to display several views.
FIGURE 15.1
Different views of
the same drawing
in Paper Space
Switching from Model Space to Paper Space
You can get to Paper Space by selecting a layout from the Layouts pop-up menu on the status bar or
clicking on any of the layout thumbnails in the Show Drawings & Layouts tool on the status bar.
