Autocad 2008 viewports

Of course, using viewports generally means you have a layout setup with a title block, etc. Thus if you have a drawing in your model space that you want to display on your title block, the only way to get it there is using a viewport. So, go to your layout, click on your viewport icon surround your drawing to be displayed. There's a lot to know about it to get proper scale for any given sheet size and scale setting.

Each layout viewport is like a picture frame into model space; the view displays the model at the scale and orientation you specify. Once upon an AutoCAD time, model space was the only game in town. All notes, labels, dimensions, and the drawing border and title block were also created and scaled in model space.

With the introduction of paper space, AutoCAD users were given access to a space designed specifically for layouts and scaling. Take a look at the following illustration. It shows an active paper space with only two objects: a drawing border block and a single layout viewport, which displays a view of model space. Looking for more videos? To prevent accidental panning and zooming, each layout viewport has a Display Locked property that can be turned on or off.

You can access this property from the Properties palette, the right-click menu when a layout viewport is selected, a button on the Layout Viewports tab on the ribbon, and a button on the status bar when one or more layout viewports are selected. Create Layout Viewports When you use the MVIEW command to create a new layout viewport, you specify the view that you want to display in it with one of several methods: Click the diagonal corners of a rectangular area, and the extents of model space are displayed automatically.

Specify the Named option to use a previously saved model-space view. Specify the New option for temporary access model space to define a rectangular area. Choose the Object option and select a closed object such as a circle or closed L-shaped polyline to convert into a layout viewport.