Save your view!!! (Topic_01) Topic_04: Viewport Propertiesġ. In the drop down menu next to “Perspective” viewport scroll down to Viewport Properties > a dialog box appears.Ģ. Contrary to what you may believe, you actually want the arrow facing towards yourself, NOT the objectĥ. BEFORE YOU CLICK THE CENTER POINT: In the command line toggle Flip to change to direction of the arrow. Once you hover over a center point, notice the small arrow that appears near the point you just referenced.Ĥ. (Note*** Since you can’t snap to a midpoint on a surface it sometimes helps to actually draw a curve on the surface so you can snap to the mid point of the curve.) Select surface > Now specify a center point. If you want to orient your view to a particular surface plane, Orient Camera to Surface can be beneficial.Ģ. In the drop down menu next to “Perspective” viewport scroll down to Set Camera > Orient Camera to Surface.ģ.

You can draw guidelines at different points in your model to place the camera and create different views.ġ. The line you created is just a guide line to set up the view and may be deleted. Command line will prompt to specify the target point > Choose the opposite endpoint of the line.ĥ. Command line will prompt to specify the camera point > Choose one endpoint of the line.Ĥ. In the drop down menu next to “Perspective” viewport scroll down to Set Camera> Place Camera and Target.ģ. Using Gumball, move vertically on the blue axis to roughly 5 feet (eye level).Ģ. Now when you navigate to the Viewport drop down menu, you should see your newly created view under “Named Views” Topic_02: Place Camera and Targetġ. Name the view.ģ. You have successfully saved a view! You should see a thumbnail preview in the dialog box.Ĥ. Near the top left select the “ Save as” icon. Perspective) click the drop down menu > Set view > Named Views…Ģ. So, locking your viewports right after setting the scale, since they're so close together, is not only good drafting practice, but it's also necessary if you don't want to risk losing time later, realigning all of your views.1. It does whatever panning or zooming action that I specified, then it switches back to model space. If we read the Command Prompt, we can see that each time I pan or zoom, AutoCAD reads back the message that the viewport is actually View Locked, and it switches to paper space. Now, if I need to, I can Double Click inside the viewport and pan or zoom as I need to. Just to the left of that is a little Lock symbol, this will allow us to lock our viewport. So to do this, we'll select our viewport from paper space and then come down to the Status bar here, and find the scale. To prevent this from happening, we need to lock the viewport. However, if I Double Click back inside my viewport by accident, and accidentally pan or zoom, I've just messed up my view. Then we Double Click outside the viewport, select it, and set the scale. When establishing your view, you have to Double Click inside your viewport to activate it, and then pan and zoom around to find your view. One of the biggest issues is the ability to pan and zoom inside your viewport. While viewports are a necessity in today's drafting environment, they can also be a bit of a headache if not managed properly.

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