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Part II Start, Organize, and Save a Drawing. . . . . . 75
Chapter 7 Start and Save a Drawing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Start a Drawing from Scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Use a Setup Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Use a Template File to Start a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Save a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Chapter 8 Open an Existing Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Overview of Opening Drawings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Find a Drawing File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Specify Search Paths, File Names, and File Locations . . . . . . . 90
Work with Multiple Open Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Open Part of a Large Drawing (Partial Load) . . . . . . . . . . 92
Add Identifying Information to Drawings . . . . . . . . . . 95
Recover a Damaged File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Chapter 9 Specify Units, Angles, and Scale. . . . . . . . . . . 101
Set Units of Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Set Angle Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Draw to Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Chapter 10 Organize Drawings and Apply Standards. . . . . . . . 109
Overview of CAD Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Define Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Check Drawings for Standards Violations . . . . . . . . . 114
Translate Layer Names and Properties . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Convert Layers to Established Drawing Standards . . . . . 121
View Selected Drawing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Purge Unreferenced Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Part III Control the Drawing Views . . . . . . . . 125
Chapter 11 Change a View in Two Dimensions. . . . . . . . . . 127
Pan a View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Magnify a View (Zoom) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Pan and Zoom with the Aerial View Window . . . . . . . . 133
Save and Restore Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136