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View Ports ?
View Ports ?

#1
CAD Guy
Join Date:
05-30-2008
 We are old school and just started to use viewports in 2D. After I make the drawing in model space I go in paper space and add dim. and text and such. After everything is said and done I lock the viewport in paper space, but my boss will go in model space and move it around. So my ? is, can I lock my drawing in model space?
View Ports ?

#2
Phelps
Join Date:
07-29-2007
 CAD Guy,
I work with a large AutoCAD department, and no one has ever heard of doing the dimensions on paper space and the objects to dimension are on model space. Create a few different dimension styles with the scales you will commonly be using. Draw and dimension the objects in model space. Go to paper space and make a view port and zoom in on the object and dimension that you just did. Then do a zoom "1/#xp" where the # is the dimscale of the dimension scale you just were working with. It's very simple once you've done it a few times. You can have several view ports in one layout tab, and all of them can have different dimension scales.