Insert named views as viewports

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Once you have created a layout and placed a border and title block,

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you are ready to create some view ports,

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view ports are essentially windows that look back at and display

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a portion of what has been created in model space.

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A

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previously saved model space view can be inserted onto a layout as a viewport.

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Since a viewport is a drawing object,

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you should create a separate layer for the view ports.

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That way you will be able to turn the viewport

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borders on and off by changing their layer visibility.

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The exercise file already has a layer named view ports

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on the home ribbon

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in the layers panel,

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expand the layer drop down and select view ports as the current layer.

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Now you are ready to place view ports

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on the layout ribbon

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in the layout, view ports, panel, select insert view.

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Since the drawing includes named views,

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you see a gallery showing all of the named model views

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to insert a named view. Simply select that view from the gallery.

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For example, select the floor plan view.

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The program prompts you to specify the location of the view.

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AUTOCAD automatically applies the annotation scale of

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the view to the viewport scale,

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if it will fit onto the sheet,

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if it does not fit,

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it applies a standard scale based on the size of the named view and the layout

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so that the view fits on half the sheet.

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As you move the cursor, you see an outline of the view.

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Before placing the view,

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you can right click to change the scale of the

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view by selecting the desired scale from a menu.

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In this case, the view has been correctly scaled to 1/8 inch equals 1 ft.

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Press escape to close the menu

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and then click to place the view.

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You immediately see the new viewport which contains the floor plan view.

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You can then select the viewport border and use

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grips to change the size of the viewport.

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Then press escape to deselect the viewport

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on the layout ribbon

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in the layout view ports, panel,

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click insert view again to display the gallery and select the reception view

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again. As soon as you do, you see a preview of the viewport,

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click to place that view above the floor plan view,

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then select its border

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on the status bar.

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You can see that the viewport has been assigned the

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correct scale of one half inch equals 1 ft.

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Press escape to deselect the viewport.

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Repeat these steps one more time to select the conference room view from the gallery

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again as you move the cursor,

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you see a preview of the viewport.

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This time since the viewport size does not look quite right,

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right. Click to display the menu of standard scales.

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Auto catt has automatically selected a scale of 1 to 30

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since that is not the desired scale. Simply select one quarter inch equals 1 ft.

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As soon as you do the viewport preview changes size.

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Click to place the viewport in the upper right

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as you have seen inserting named views as Viewport yields the same

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result as the multi step process of first creating a viewport,

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then making it active,

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then setting the scale and then resizing the viewport as needed.

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But it does everything in a single step.

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In addition,

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note that when you select the border of any of the view ports, you just created

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on the status bar,

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you can see that the viewport is already locked

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so that you cannot accidentally change the scale.

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So inserting a named view as a Viewport also saves you the

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step of having to manually lock each viewport after you create it.