Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts Tutorials
Modelspace & Paperspace / Layout Tabs
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When you work in the Model Tab in AutoCAD that is where you do all your design work. To set up your Title Blocks and how you're going to present your design work, you work with the Layout tabs. Now, this particular drawing, 04 Layout as you can see at the top of the screen there, is a default drawing at the moment because I'm using the Default Model Tab. You can't change the name of the Model Tab, you can't delete the Model Tab, but Layout1 and Layout2 are just Default Layouts that basically come up when you open up a new drawing. If I click on Layout1 for example, what you'll find is that I get a Default Viewport, which is this object here, and that is looking into my Modelspace and showing me a view of what is in the Modelspace. If I double-click inside the Viewport you'll see it goes bold, like so, and what I can do here is I can Pan, and notice, look, it goes off the edge of the Viewport. It's like having a hole in a sheet of paper and looking through it to what's underneath the sheet of paper. So, that Viewport there is currently active. I would double-click outside of that Viewport to deactivate it now. Now, the Layout1 here, that's the Default name. I can right-click over that tab and I can actually Rename it, I can Delete it, I can have a New layout if I want to, I can Select All my Layouts, perhaps for plotting. I can also Activate the Model Tab. I can go into Page Setup Manager. I can Plot. I can Export this particular Layout to the Model Tab if I want to, and I can also Hide my Layouts and Model Tabs. So there's a fairly extensive Shortcut Menu when I right-click over one of the Layout Tabs. What I'm going to do is I'm going to Rename it. And what I'm going to call it is General, because it's a general view of my particular drawing. I press Enter there, and that is renamed as General. It's still a Layout, but it's called General Ð it's a General Layout. And then what I could do is I could go to Layout2 here and just using the default settings what I could do here, notice the scale is slightly different. I can zoom in and zoom out when I make the Viewport active, so if I double-click here inside this Viewport and roll up and down on the wheel mouse I can zoom in and zoom out. So, what I might do here is I might zoom in and maybe pan a little bit like this, make it bigger, like that. Double-click outside the Viewport to deactivate it. Always do that in case you mess up your Viewport Scale. That's something we'll cover later on in the Course. So you see we've got a Detail View there. I might right-click and rename that Layout Detail, like so. I can have as many Layouts as I want in a DWG file, but I can only ever have one Model because you'll notice the Model is on my real life work, yeah? General. I've got a general arrangement there, and I've got a Detail arrangement there. I can right-click over any Layouts at any time and have a New Layout. Notice I've got a new Layout1 because these have been renamed; it starts at 1 again. Click on Layout1, another default Layout with a default Viewport. We will cover creating New Viewports, Title Blocks, and so on, in the Layout Tabs later on in this particular Course, but you can see how versatile the Layout Tab is. I can just right-click and I can Move or Copy, so if I click on Move now, it's just like Excel, Microsoft Excel. I can say right, I want to let's say do General there, I want to move to the end, and I want to create a copy, maybe of that particular Layout1. So, I click on OK. there's my Layout1 in brackets too, and it's a copy of that one. Notice they look exactly the same. So, I can have as many as these Layouts as I want with Title Blocks, with Viewports, with Scaled Viewports so that everything's to scale, so that we know that we can look at our drawings and perhaps put a Scale Wall against them to get an idea of the size of objects on our drawings. So, when we work in the Layout space we're setting up our presentation of our design from the Modelspace.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts |
| Author: | Shaun Bryant |
| SKU: | 34013 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-56-4 |
| Release Date: | 2009-07-03 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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