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2000, Setting up a 1:100 Viewport in LAYOUT
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Beginner, 2D - Last updated 08/02/03
This tutorial shows how to setup a simple viewport at a
scale of 1:100 in LAYOUT.
Typeable Commands are in uppercase and ORANGE.
First of all make the
VIEWPORTs menu available by right-clicking over
any menu button, and holding the button down.
Look for the Viewports menu and let go of the
mouse.
Setting up a Viewport -
Click on the word LAYOUT, it's a tab at the
bottom of the screen. Or type LAYOUT and following
the command line prompts. Next, pull down the
View, Viewports, Viewport menu. And click and
drag with the crosshair/cursor to fill the page.
Now you have one viewport filling the entire
page. Double clicking the viewport makes it
active and you can do anything you have done in
model space. I recomend you only dimension and
manipulate layers here. Always edit your model in
modelspace
Setting up a scale of
1:100- Check the viewport is active by
double-clicking it. Pull down the listbox button
on the viewport menu and select the scale. That
should be it. Will it fit on your printer ??????.
I tend to print scale-to-fit on an A3/A4 printer
at my school. Now setup some cool orthogonal
viewports. A good example is in your SAMPLES
folder when you installed 2000, it's called
Campus.
First of all make the
VIEWPORTs menu available by right-clicking over
any menu button, and holding the button down.
Look for the Viewports menu and let go of the
mouse.
Setting up a Viewport -
Click on the word LAYOUT, it's a tab at the
bottom of the screen. Or type LAYOUT and following
the command line prompts. Next, pull down the
View, Viewports, Viewport menu. And click and
drag with the crosshair/cursor to fill the page.
Now you have one viewport filling the entire
page. Double clicking the viewport makes it
active and you can do anything you have done in
model space. I recomend you only dimension and
manipulate layers here. Always edit your model in
modelspace
Setting up a scale of
1:100- Check the viewport is active by
double-clicking it. Pull down the listbox button
on the viewport menu and select the scale. That
should be it. Will it fit on your printer ??????.
I tend to print scale-to-fit on an A3/A4 printer
at my school. Now setup some cool orthogonal
viewports. A good example is in your SAMPLES
folder when you installed 2000, it's called
Campus. 