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164 | Chapter 13 Display Multiple Views
To subdivide a viewport on the Model tab
1 If you have more than one viewport, click inside the viewport you want
to subdivide.
2 From the View menu, choose Viewports and then either 2 Viewports, 3
Viewports, or 4 Viewports to indicate how many viewports should be
created.
3 At the Next prompt, specify the arrangement of the new viewports.
Command line
VPORTS
To join two viewports on the Model tab
1 From the View menu, choose Viewports. Then choose Join.
2 Click within the viewport containing the view you want to keep.
3 Click within an adjacent viewport to join it to the first viewport.
Command line
VPORTS
To restore a single viewport on the Model tab
■ From the View menu, choose Viewports. Then choose 1 Viewport.
Command line
VPORTS
To switch from a layout tab to the Model tab
■ Click the Model tab at the bottom of the drawing area.
Command line
TILEMODE
Select the Current Viewport
In AutoCAD, you always work in one viewport at a time. When you use
multiple viewports, one of them is the current viewport. When a viewport is
current, the cursor is displayed as crosshairs rather than an arrow and the
viewport boundary is highlighted. You can change the current viewport at
any time except when a viewing command is in progress.
To make a viewport the current viewport, you click inside it or press
CTRL + R
to cycle through the existing viewports.