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crosshairs if AutoCAD finds more than one object under them. If you then click to
select, a Selection window pops up showing you how many objects, and of what
type, are under the point that you picked (see Figure 2-7).
Model or Paper space (MODEL/PAPER): Clicking this button toggles
between model space and paper space.
As I describe in the upcoming section “Down the main stretch: The drawing area,”
AutoCAD's drawing area is composed of two overlapping environments: Model
space is where you create your model geometry, and paper space is where you
compose your drawing sheet to document that geometry. Clicking this button
when the Model tab is active (that is, you're in full-screen model space) switches
you to a paper space layout. A completed layout includes viewports, which reveal
the objects in model space at a particular scale. (I tell you more about viewports
and layouts in Chapter 5.) After you switch to a paper space layout, clicking this
button toggles between paper space and model space within the layout . The but-
ton label switches from MODEL to PAPER to show you which space you're in.
Figure 2-7: Overlapping objects listed in the Selection window.
Model and <Layout>: Note: These two buttons disappear if Model
and Layout tabs are displayed. Clicking the Model button switches you out of the
layout and back to full-screen model space. (If Model and Layout tabs are dis-
played, you click the Model tab to switch to full-screen model space.) Clicking Lay-
out switches you to whichever paper space layout was active when you switched
to model space. Also note that the tooltip for the Layout button displays the name
of the layout, which might be changed from the default Layout1 or Layout2.
Quick View Layouts: Clicking this button displays a horizontal row of
graphic images of all layouts in the current drawing. Click a layout image to make
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