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Chapter 4 Control the Drawing Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Change Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Pan or Zoom a View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Save and Restore Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Control the 3D Projection Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Overview of Parallel and Perspective Views . . . . . . . . . 60
Define a Perspective Projection (DVIEW) . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Define a Parallel Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Choose Preset 3D Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Define a 3D View with Coordinate Values or Angles . . . . . 62
Change to a View of the XY Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Shade a Model and Use Edge Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Use a Visual Style to Display Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Customize a Visual Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Control Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Use Viewing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Specify 3D Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Overview of 3D Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Use 3D Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Create a 3D Dynamic View (DVIEW) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Use ViewCube Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Overview of ViewCube Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
ViewCube Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Reorient the View of a Model with ViewCube . . . . . . . . 77
Change the UCS with the ViewCube Tool . . . . . . . . . . 80
Display Multiple Views in Model Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Set Model Space Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Select and Use the Current Viewport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Save and Restore Model Layout Viewport Arrangements . . . . . 84
Chapter 5
Organize Drawings and Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Create Single-View Drawings (Model Space) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Quick Start for Model Space Drafting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Draw, Scale, and Annotate in Model Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Create Multiple-View Drawing Layouts (Paper Space) . . . . . . . . . . 89
Quick Start for Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Understand the Layout Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Work with Model Space and Paper Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Work in Model Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Work on a Named Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Access Model Space from a Layout Viewport . . . . . . . . . 92
Create and Modify Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Control Views in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Scale Views in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Control Visibility in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
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