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590 | Chapter 21 Create Layouts
To create a layout viewport
1 Choose a layout tab.
2 From the View menu, choose Viewports. Then choose New Viewports.
3 In the Viewports dialog box, New Viewports tab, select a viewport config-
uration from the list.
4 Under Setup, select either 2D or 3D.
When you select 3D, a set of standard 3D views is applied to each viewport
in the configuration.
5 Under Viewport Spacing, select the amount of spacing you want to add
between the viewports.
6 To change a view, select a viewport in the preview image. Under Change
View To, select a view from the list of standard views.
The list includes top, bottom, front, back, left, right, and isometric views,
along with any named views that are saved in the drawing. The selected
view is displayed under Preview.
7 Choose OK.
8 In the drawing area, specify two points to indicate the area to contain the
viewport configuration.
Viewports toolbar
Command line
VPORTS
To place a named viewport into a layout
1 On the layout tab, from the View menu, choose Viewports ➤ New
Viewports.
2 In the Viewports dialog box, choose the Named Viewports tab.
3 Select the named viewport configuration from the list and choose OK.
4 In the layout, specify a location for the viewport configuration.
Viewports toolbar
Command line
VPORTS
Change the Properties of Layout Viewports
Viewports are AutoCAD objects, and their borders have object properties,
including color, layer, linetype, linetype scale, lineweight, and plot style.
Lineweight and linetype are ignored. Viewports also have a scale property.
You can modify a viewport property using the Properties palette.