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To save time and effort in the Layout tabs when you're creating Viewports you can actually set up Named Views in the Model Space. So, for example, I need to show my Areas Table in a Viewport in the Model Space what I can do here, if I go to the View tab and then to the Views Panel here, I can set Named Views and also I can restore previous Named Views if I need to. So, if I go here to Named Views this opens up the View Manager. Now, I need a Model View here, so I'm going to select Model View and I'm going to select New. Now, my View Name is going to be Areas Table. Now make sure you spell these right, OK? Areas Table, like so. Now, I can put a category in here if I want to. I can put maybe Tables for example. And the View Type is Still. The reason it's Still is it's not Cinematic or a Recorded Walk that you might use in a 3D environment, for example. Now, View Properties: Current display or define window. We're going to define the view window, and what we're going to do, we're going to select an area around our Areas Table. Try and get just a boundary, roughly like that, and left-click. There is our Areas Boundary, there, our Named View. Press Enter to accept that, and that's now all set up. It's in the World UCS, which is fine. We don't need a Live Section or a Visual Style, or a Background, so we just OK it. So we now have our Areas Table as a Named View. If I set that as the current view and then OK that you'll see that it zooms into the Areas Table. I'm now going to Zoom Extents, so Zed Enter, E Enter, is the Keyboard Shortcut for Zoom Extents. What I now need are my Notes, here, so I'm going to zoom in on those and what I'm going to do now again is go to Name Views, and Model Views, and New, and this one the View Name is going to be Watering Notes. View Category will be, let's say, Tables, and Current Display, Define Window. So I click on Define Window again and what I'm going to do, I'll zoom in. It doesn't matter if you zoom when you're doing this. So I'll left-click there, get a suitable boundary, and left-click again. Enter to accept it, and you'll see there now that that's all OK. I'll click on OK again and I've got Watering Notes as well. I'm going to Set Current and OK that, and you'll see that I'm zoomed in on my Watering Notes. If I enter Zed again and then Enter and then E again and then Enter for Zoom Extents, I've set those Named Views. But the good thing is now if I click on Views here you'll see that I've got Areas Table and Watering Notes as Model Space Named Views. So, if I go Areas Table, it's there. Click on the down arrow, Watering Notes, it's there. Or, I could just go here to a Top View and that'll take me to the top view looking at everything in the Model Space. Now if I go into the Layout tab and create a new Viewport now, let's do a quick check here: Home tab first, make sure we're on our Viewports Layer, which we are, and then into the View tab. Into the Viewports Panel here, I'm going to create a single Viewport, so I want Single Viewport here, and what I'm going to do is, I'm going to change the View here now to my Areas Table. Click on OK, and I'll just left-click, let's say, here, and drag that down to there, and there's my Areas Table. So, it tells me my areas now of my Kitchen, Garage, Pond, and Hardstanding. So, I've got a table there giving me areas, but the good thing is, no zooming, no panning because I've used a Named View in the drawing. Now what I do need to place is also my Watering Notes, so I'm going to place another Single Viewport here, change the View to Watering Notes, and OK it, and I'll just place this little one down here, so I'll use this point here, drag it up this way, and there are my Notes for Watering as well. Now what I really like about this is I can now just right-click here and go to Plot and click on Preview in the Plot dialog and there you go. That's what my drawing looks like at the moment. I've got my Notes, I've got my Areas Table, and I've got my Views there. Notice the Main House now only showing the Layers that I want to show; the Summerhouse only showing the Layers that I want to show. I can right-click and exit that, and also just hit Cancel there because I don't want to plot right now. So you can see that those Named Views are useful. Use Named Views when you've got a big Model Space to work in and you've got lots of Viewports that you need to set up.