Adjusting Floating Viewports
Think of floating viewports as windows that exist in paperspace through which one sees into modelspace. Viewports are termed floating because you can position and size their frames however you like in relation to the paper represented in a layout. You will configure a single floating viewport on Layout1 and two separate viewports on Layout2 to gain experience with viewports.
Working on Layout1
In the following steps, you will set the scale of the building floor plan on Layout 1 and then adjust its viewport to fit the floor plan:
- If the file is not already open, go to the book's web page, browse to Chapter 13, get the file Ch13-D.dwg or Ch13-D-metric.dwg, and open it.
- Click the Quick View Layouts icon on the status ...
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