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Understanding the Layout View  29
Try the following exercise to see firsthand how layouts work:
1. Click the Layout1 icon at the bottom of the drawing area.
The drawing area changes to show your drawing, plus some additional display ele-
ments, as shown in Figure 1.12. The Layout shows you how your drawing will look
when it is printed.
2. Move the cursor over the rectangle that immediately surrounds the rectangle and
circle drawing that you created earlier in the chapter.
3. Click the highlighted rectangle, and then press the Delete key. Your drawing
disappears.
4. Click the Model icon to return to model space. You’ll see that the objects you drew
are still there.
5. Click the Undo tool in the Quick Access Toolbar twice to return to the Layout1 view
and undo your deletion of the outer rectangle. The view of the rectangle and the
circle returns.
6. Click the Model icon to return to the original drawing area.
In step 3, your entire drawing disappeared when you deleted the outer rectangle.
This is because that rectangle is really a viewport into the drawing you created in model
space. When you are in a layout view, a viewport acts like a window into your drawing.
By default, AutoCAD creates a single viewport to show your drawing, but you can have
Figure 1.12
Your drawing as it
appears in one of
the Layout
Click this outline, and press the Delete key
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