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We're now going to look in more depth at creating viewports from objects. Now, we have touched on this in previous exercises. Now before we actually create the viewports from the objects, the objects have to be drawn. So we go back to our Home Tab, we make sure that we're on our Viewports Layer. Remember, you always put viewports on their own layer. That way you can freeze them, turn them off and also set them out to plot. So Viewports Layer there; remember viewports. Now, on our Draw Panel here, what I'm going to draw is just three objects; a rectangle first of all. So there's my rectangle. I'm going to draw it on my Layout Tab like that. There's a rectangle there. What I'm also going to draw is a circle. Just a standard circle, left click for center, just going to drag it freehand for radius like that and then the last one that I'm going to draw is a polygon. So I click on the Draw fly-out, there's Polygon there, click a number of sides, let's say seven and Enter and the center of the polygon is there and I'm going to do an inscribe polygon and bring it out like that. Three different enclosed polygons that are made up from poly lines that are closed. I go back to the View Tab now and here now I can click on this arrow here and create a viewport from an object. So I select the object here, that becomes a viewport. Again, click, create from object, select the circle, that also becomes a viewport. Click here, create from object, click on the polygon, that also becomes a viewport. Now, you'll notice each one is zoomed to extents so I'll double click inside the viewport, perhaps zoom and pan a little bit so that my view is better there maybe, something like that. Click in this viewport, again, zoom and pan. I only want to show let's say one workstation and the PC Workstation there like that and again, click in here. Let's do the same again. Zoom in and we'll have let's say that little office just there in that viewport there. Now, I know you wouldn't ever use viewports of that shape, let's say a hexagon for example or in this case, a hexagon with seven sides, but I'm just demonstrating there how easy it is to create a viewport from an object. So you can draw a closed polyline in your Layout Tab and create a viewport from it. It doesn't have to be a fixed polygon like a rectangle or perhaps a circle or perhaps a polygon. It can be anything. So I'll delete these here like so, delete those viewports there. Let's just go completely freehand. Let's go back to the Home Tab, Viewports Layer, Polyline and I'm just going to go completely crazy now; look. I'm going to draw one of the weirdest shaped viewports ever. So I'll come in like this, do that, make sure I close it so right click and close. That's a closed polyline. Now, if I go back to the view here and click on here in the Viewport Panel and Create from Object, that is now a viewport. Weird-shaped viewport, but a viewport. I can double click; I can pan, as you can see I can zoom in and out. Doesn't really serve any purpose but it gives you an idea of how weird and wonderful those viewports can be. I'll double click outside that viewport and as you can see there, I can create any shape polyline I need to create a viewport on your Layout Tab.