1. Sacramento City College EDT 310
Views and Viewports
Sacramento City College
EDT 310
Views and Viewports

2. Creating Your Own Working Views
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3. Views and Viewports Zooming and panning can be time consuming.
Being able to quickly specify and recall a certain part of the drawing is much easier than zooming or panning.
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4. Creating Views
VIEW command allows you to create named views which can then quickly be recalled.
A view can be any portion of the drawing.
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5. Creating Views
Think of a view as a previously zoomed display that you can recall at any time.
Benefits
Magnification is the “right size”.
Text is legible.
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6. Creating Views Access VIEWS by:
Picking Named Views button in the Viewpoint toolbar.
Select Named Views from the View pull-down menu.
Enter DDVIEW or V at the Command: prompt.
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7. Creating Views The View Manager is where new views are defined.
Four Choices
Current
Model Views
Layout Views
Preset Views
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8. Creating Views Model Views Layout Views Preset Views
A list of currently defined views is shown
Layout Views
Preset Views
Orthographic Views
Top, Bottom, Left, right, Front, Back
SW Isometric
SE Isometric
NE Isometric
NW Isometric
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9. Model Views
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10. Layout Views
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11. Create A New View Create a new view Type VIEW or V Click New
Give a name for the new view
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19. Creating Views To make a view current: Or
Click on the view and then click “Set Current.” Or
Double-click on the view, then hit ENTER
Fastest way
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20. Orthographic & Isometric Views
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22. Bottom
View
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24. Front
View
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25. Southwest
Isometric
View
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Isometric
View
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27. Tiled Viewports
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28. Viewports
The AutoCAD Model tab screen may be divided into several “windows” called viewports.
Each viewport may display a different view or zoom of the current drawing.
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29. Viewports
Another type of viewport called “floating viewports” can be created in the Layout tab.
Tiled viewports - model space
Floating viewports - paper space.
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30. Viewports Only one viewport is active at any one time in Model Space.
To activate another viewport, click on it.
When active, the viewport border is “thickened”.
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31. Viewports You can draw between viewports.
You can start a line in one viewport and complete the line in another viewport.
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32. Viewports To access Preset Viewports
Pick the Display Viewports Dialog button from the Standard, Layouts, or Viewports toolbars.
Enter VPORTS at the Command: prompt.
Select New Viewports from the Viewports cascading menu in the View pull-down menu.
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53. Creating Tiled Viewports
Model Space:
Tiled viewports
Created with the VPORTS command.
48 max
Only one viewport contains the cross hairs at any one time.
Preset tiled viewports can be selected
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54. Uses of Tiled Viewports
Model Space:
Each viewport is a separate screen
REDRAW or REGEN separately
REDRAWALL redraws all viewports
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55. Creating Floating Viewports The VPORTS Command
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56. Creating Floating Viewports
Creating floating viewports in Paper Space is very similar to creating Tiled Viewports in Model Space.
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57. Creating Floating Viewports
A view port configuration can be selected from the Viewports dialog box.
Use the VPORTS command.
The MVIEW command can also be used.
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58. Creating Floating Viewports
When Model Space is active
The Viewports dialog box creates tiled viewports.
When paper space is active
The Viewports dialog box creates floating viewports.
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Use Spacing to set the space around the edges of the floating viewports.
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65. The MVIEW Command Options
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MV, MVIEW or -VPORTS options: ON
OFF
Fit
Hideplot
Lock
Object
Polygonal
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Activates the model space display within a view port.
OFF
Deactivates a model space display within a view port.
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Fit
Default option.
Creates a single rectangular floating viewport that fills the entire printable area on the sheet.
The sub options 2, 3, 4 can be used to create multiple viewports.
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Hideplot
Prevents hidden lines in a 3D model from being plotted.
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Lock
Locks the view in one or more viewports.
When a viewport is locked, objects in the view port can be edited and new objects added
but:
Display commands like Zoom and Pan are disabled.
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75. Creating Floating Viewports
Object
Use to change a closed object drawn in paper space into a floating viewport.
Existing
Circles
Ellipses
Polygons and
other closed shapes
can be used as floating viewport outlines.
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Polygonal
Draw a floating viewport outline using a polyline.
Any shape can be used.
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Draw the shape in paper space using the POLYGON command.
Use MVIEW command
Select Object sub-menu option to make the object a viewport.
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81. Zoom to Paper Space
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82. Zoom To Paper Space
A viewport in Paper Space must be zoomed to the correct magnification if it is to be plotted to scale.
The Zoom Command is used to zoom a viewport.
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83. Zoom To Paper Space Zoom Scale has two options:nX
And
nXP
nX scales the display relative to the current display
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84. Zoom To Paper Space
“Zoom xp” is the common term used when describing zooming a viewport to the correct magnification.
Zoom 1/nXP
Scales the drawing in Model Space relative to Paper Space.
Is used primarily in the layout of scaled multivew drawings.
THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ZOOM COMMAND YOU WILL LEARN !
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85. Zoom To Paper Space Examples: To zoom a viewport to 1:4
Zoom 1/4XP
To zoom a viewport to 1:16
Zoom 1/16XP
To zoom a viewport to 1:48
Zoom 1/48XP
To zoom a viewport to 1:96
Zoom 1/96XP
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86. Creating New Paper Space Layouts
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87. New Paper Space Layouts
Create New Paper Space layouts by right-clicking the Layout Tab at the bottom of the screen.
Select “New Layout”.
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The new layout will be created.
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