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Transfer Information between Open Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Save a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Find a Drawing File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Specify Search Paths and File Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Chapter 9
Repair, Restore, or Recover Drawing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Repair a Damaged Drawing File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Create and Restore Backup Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Control the Drawing Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 10 Change Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Pan or Zoom a View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Save and Restore Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Control the 3D Projection Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Overview of Parallel and Perspective Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Define a Perspective Projection (DVIEW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Define a Parallel Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Choose Preset 3D Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Define a 3D View with Coordinate Values or Angles . . . . . . . . 90
Change to a View of the XY Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Shade a Model and Use Edge Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Use a Visual Style to Display Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Customize a Visual Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Control Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Chapter 11
Use Viewing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Specify 3D Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Overview of 3D Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Use 3D Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Create a 3D Dynamic View (DVIEW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Use ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Overview of ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
ViewCube Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Reorient the View of a Model with ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . 115
Change the UCS with ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Chapter 12
Display Multiple Views in Model Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Set Model Space Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Select and Use the Current Viewport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Save and Restore Model Layout Viewport Arrangements . . . . . . . . 125
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