- We're staying in our zero zero
ground floor plan .DWG file.
And you'll notice I've left it
in the ISO A1 landscape layout tab
as we were in the previous video.
What I'd like you to do is jump back into the model tab,
into the model space, like so.
And we're going to take a look at creating named views.
Now, whilst this isn't a big floor plan,
it would be really good if we were able just to say
I want to zoom into that area
in the floor plan quickly and easily.
So what we're going to do,
we're going to set up a couple of named views,
and then I'm going to show you something really cool
that you can utilize with the view ports
in your layout tabs in the paper space.
So we're going to zoom in on this top right area
of the floor plan, just using the wheel on the mouse,
just position the crosshair like so,
and then roll up on the wheel like that.
And can you see,
I've got the crosshair over that little conference table?
And then I hold down the wheel on the mouse,
and you'll notice there that I can zoom and pan
very quickly and easily.
Ideally, you just want a little bit of space
around the conference room like that.
So you can see you got the conference table, the door.
There's also a TV there as well,
and you can see it's on the communications layer.
So this is like a larger conference room
where you might have video meetings, Zoom meetings
for the board of directors of a company, for example.
So what we are going to do,
we're going to create a named view of that area
in this drawing.
So we're going to go to the view tab
on the ribbon in AutoCAD.
And you can see there we have a named views panel
on the ribbon there.
So we've got unsaved view, new view, view manager like so.
Now older versions of AutoCAD don't have
this particular panel on the ribbon.
It's only the last, I think, four versions of AutoCAD
that have it, don't quote me on that.
It's around four.
So if I click on new view, like so,
what'll happen is I'll get this new view
shot properties dialogue box.
Now it'll probably appear condensed.
Click on the little fly out arrow here for more options,
and it gives you a bigger dialogue box.
And I just want to go through
each of the settings here first.
So we're going to create a name view.
So we've got the view name.
Well, that's going to be easy.
We'll call this the large conference room,
and I'm just going to shorten conference to CONF,
and we'll have RM for room.
So large conference room.
View category, we can put a category in there,
so we'll call these plan views.
So we'll just type that in,
because we haven't got anything in the list yet.
The view type will be still,
we're not doing a cinematic
or a recorded walkthrough, or anything.
It's just going to be a still, flat, 2D view.
Now we need to specify the boundary of the view,
but just before we do that, we look at the view properties
and the shot properties here.
We're saving a layer snapshot with the view,
so all of our layer settings will be remembered
in this named view.
We've also got various things,
like background and some properties
if we're creating 3D views.
What we're also going to look at is shot properties here.
So we've got transition type,
fade from black into this shot.
This is all to do with when you're creating
cinematic shots and 3D views.
So as you can see, we've got motion, transition, et cetera.
So we're not doing any of that.
We just need to worry ideally, really,
about the layer snapshotting bit here.
So I'm going to click on this little icon here,
and that'll allow me to define my view window.
So I click there, and you can see now
that it zooms out a little bit,
but that's not a major problem.
What I'm going to do is click about there,
drag my little window around the large conference room.
If you need to zoom in,
just roll up on the wheel a couple of notches.
And I'm going to come into about there,
just inside that door swing, and left click again.
And you can see there now if I just hold down the wheel
and pan a little, that black area is now my named view area.
I'm being prompted now on the dynamic input
and on the command line to enter to accept.
So I press enter, and that view is now saved.
So I've saved that in there.
All I've got to do is okay it,
and it will add it to the view list.
So I click on okay, and now if I go up here to my view list,
you'll see that I have a large conference room view
available, as well as all the top, bottom,
left, right isometrics that I get on the view cube
and things that we talked about earlier.
So if I click on large conference room,
it'll zoom into that particular area in the drawing.
With everything else deselected, just double click
on the wheel to zoom extents like so,
and then zoom in on the restrooms over here.
The restrooms are over here,
so get the crosshair over them, roll up on the wheel
to zoom in, and there they are there.
So you can see the sinks, and the cubicles, and so on.
So what we are going to do,
we're going to do another named view.
So we're going to go back up to the name views panel
and click on new view here.
And we'll just call this restrooms, nice and easy.
So there's our restrooms there.
You might want to put a capital R.
As usual, my typing skills are incredible.
And again, we'll click here.
And on the arrow now, we can select plan views.
Because we put that in, it's remembering that category.
It's still a still view type, if you'll pardon in the pun.
And everything else we can leave as is here
with the view property.
So we click on the icon for the boundary again,
and again, it zooms out slightly.
If you want to zoom in a bit, you can,
because it goes to that default black shape for every view.
So I'm going to click about here.
Try not to snap to anything.
So get the crosshair away
so there's no green object snaps appearing.
So that's a left click there,
drag around the restrooms to about there, and click again.
There's the area for our restrooms.
Again, you're getting prompted to press enter to accept.
I'll press enter to accept.
You'll notice it zooms back out to the original view
that we had before we clicked on the new view icon
when we come back in as well.
So if I click on okay now, I now have two views in the list.
Large conference room, restrooms.
So if I click on large conference room,
it zooms to the large conference room.
If I click on the arrow again and select restrooms,
takes me to the restrooms.
I can then just double click on the wheel
to zoom extends again.
But you see how you can navigate a drawing
quickly and easily using those named views?
And they will stay in the drawing until you remove them.
If you want to remove them, you just go
to the view manager here, and expand the model views.
They they are there, and it's just a right click,
and you can delete them if you need to.
You can also update layers and boundaries
if you want to as well.
I'll just click on cancel there to close the dialogue box.
Now I mentioned something else about view ports as well.
There's a really, really clever piece of tech
in AutoCAD for this.
But before we do that, let's jump to the home tab
on the ribbon, go to our layer dropdown.
And if we scroll down, there should be a view ports layer
right down near the bottom.
There it is there.
So just click on the word view ports,
and it'll make view ports the current drafting layer.
And then we're going to go to our
ISO A1 landscape layout tab into the paper space.
And what we can do is we can actually bring these views
into our paper space as view ports from those named views.
You'll notice when you go into the layout tabs
into the paper space, you get a layout tab
on the ribbon, a blue one, that says layout.
Not to be confused with the layouts down here.
It's a layout tab on the ribbon.
So when you click on it, it's all about layouts
and what you're doing with layouts.
Now, just before I go any further,
create view, modify view, and update view
are not available in AutoCAD LT.
So if you're using AutoCAD LT
to follow along on this course, you won't have those.
But you'll notice I can insert a view into my drawing.
Can you see that?
There's insert view there, and I can insert
the large conference room or the restrooms.
So I'm going to click on the restrooms, bring that in.
You can see that I want the location of the view there.
It's quite small at the moment.
So what I can do is I can right click and change the scale.
So we'll make that a bit bigger.
Let's go with one to 50, and can you see the box gets bigger
to show you how big the view port's going to be?
I can make that even bigger.
Let's go with one to 30, there we go.
So if I click there, there's my restrooms,
but the best bit is if I click
on the edge of that view port,
it's exactly at one to 30 scale,
because I've done that from that named view.
I'll just hit escape to deselect that view port.
Let's do the other view as well.
So if I click on insert view again,
large conference room.
Comes in quite small, as you can see.
So what we'll do is we'll right click to select the scale.
And again, I'm using metric scales, remember?
Metric millimeters.
If you're using feet and inches, it would be different.
The scaling would show up differently on the list.
So if I go with something like one to 30,
that fits nicely there as well.
Click there like so, and if I click on the edge
of that view port, you can see that's also at one to 30.
I'll just hit escape there to deselect the view port.
So those named views are not just a great way
of getting around in the model space.
They're a great way of placing view ports
in the paper space, in the layout tabs as well.