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Create Multiple-View
Drawing Layouts (Paper
Space)
Paper space is a sheet layout environment where you can specify the size of your sheet, add a
title block, display multiple views of your model, and create dimensions and notes for your
drawing.
Quick Start for Layouts
There are two distinct working environments, or spaces, in which you can
create objects in a drawing. These are represented by the Model and named
layouts.
Typically, a model composed of geometric objects is created in a
three-dimensional space called model space. A final layout of specific views and
annotations of this model is created in a two-dimensional space called paper
space.
Working on the Model layout, you draw a model of your subject at 1:1 scale.
Working on a named layout, you can create one or more layout viewports,
dimensions, notes, and a title block to represent a drawing sheet.
Each layout viewport is like a picture frame containing a photograph of the
model in model space. Each layout viewport contains a view that displays the
model at the scale and orientation that you specify. You can also specify which
layers are visible in each layout viewport.
After you finish arranging the layout, you turn off the layer that contains the
layout viewport objects. The views are still visible, and you can plot the layout
without displaying the viewport boundaries.
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