Subtitles of the Movie

So how do we work in Model Space with our Zoom Tools and also any other tools in AutoCAD? Well, it's easy. Once you've got a drawing created like this it's very easy to work in your Model Space. What you're doing here is working in real space. Everything is a real size, so all of these rooms are a real size. Now I'm actually working in millimeters so I know that everything here is in millimeters and I can visualize that in my head when looking at my plan of my office. But what I can do here, well, I can actually roll up on the wheel there, there you go, I'm zooming into that office there and what I might want to do is I might want to move this computer. So what I do is I click on it. I can either right-click and use Move here on the shortcut menu, or I could go and click on Move up here on the Modify Panel and it'll prompt me to select the object I want to move, like so. So I right-click to confirm that object, pick a Base point to move it and off it goes. So I'll move that there, like so. So I've moved that object in the Model Space. Now I'm showing you some really, really basic AutoCAD commands here and I might be teaching some of you to suck eggs, but basically what I'm trying to show you here is there is a process for everything. So I've zoomed in and I've made that change there. Now what I need to do is pan across and then make the same change here with this particular computer. So I click on it, right-click, move, pick the same Base point and what I can do now with Object Snap Tracking is I can drag along here and line that one in, like so, so I'll get that to about there, left-click and that's moved in and as you can see, look. They look similar now because they're lined in on that same line because of Object Snap Tracking. So I'll now zoom out and look at the next part of the drawing that I need to work on. So I might just hold down the wheel now and move and pan, let's say, over to this corner here, and I'm going to work on this door here, so I release the wheel, roll up on the wheel and I'm zooming in again. Notice I'm using the wheel a lot. It tends to be my main navigation tool, but sometimes, just sometimes, I might need to perform a particular type of zoom so what I might do there is I might do a View and here on the Navigate Panel select Zoom Window and I'll position a window like so to zoom in on a particular area that I need to work on; in this case, my door. So what I might want to do there now is go back to the Home tab, I might want to Trim using this line and this line here, like so. I'll right-click to confirm those cutting edges and then I trim away so that my door actually has an opening like that. As you can see that looks way better because it doesn't look like the wall is going through the doorway. But you can see that there is a process. Look, I'm rolling back on the wheel again and it's all to do with Zooming and Scaling. Now in this particular instance I'm not actually scaling. I'm just looking at an area and going right, I want to be right there. So it's a process. It's an I-want process though. I need to be in that area to do some work. Now once you've worked in this real size live environment that's when you have to start thinking about moving into your Layout Tabs and actually scaling these views so that they fit onto standardized sheets of paper. You might want to Plot to paper. You might need to do an electronic plot to a PDF or a DWF maybe. So when you go to your Layout here and click like that, as you can see, look, there is a Title Block, there's a Viewport there with a Scaled View of my drawing ready to go. So I have to look at that Scale now and decide on what annotation and information needs to be on the Title Block to communicate my design intent to my client, my manufacturer who's manufacturing the object that I've just created. So working in Model Space there is always a process and that process is that you're creating in real-size space in the Model tab. You then move into your Layout Tab to Scale and fit those views onto the sheets that you're using, that are your standard sheets perhaps within your company.