- [Instructor] We're staying in our
NewMetalPlate.dwg file.
And as you can see, currently, we're in the Model tab
and we're zoomed out to the extents
of the visible drawn objects.
Now, did you know that you can actually
freeze layers in your viewport
and it won't affect the layers in the Model tab?
So you'll notice at the moment,
everything in the Model tab is all looking as it should,
the layers are on that we need to see, et cetera.
Let's jump to the Plan View layout tab a moment.
Now you'll remember in the previous video,
we'd locked the viewports, didn't we?
So we're going to need to go to the edge of the viewport first,
click on the little blue padlock here, on the status bar,
that will unlock the viewport.
Then we're going to double click inside the viewport,
like so, to activate it.
Do not Zoom, do not Pan,
that could affect your viewport scale,
we don't want that to happen.
But what you'll notice
is when you now go to your Layer dropdown here, like so,
you've got this icon here, the little gray one.
And that allows you to freeze or thaw that layer
in the current viewport.
So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to freeze, in the viewport,
my Center Lines layer.
Notice it disappears.
I'm also going to go down to Dimensions
and freeze the Dimensions layer as well.
You'll notice we've also got the Text layer there,
I'll freeze that too,
and now all I've got left is the outline of the Plan View.
So what I can do now is hit Escape
to lose obviously, the Layer dropdown,
double click outside the viewport,
to deactivate the viewport, like so,
and then just click on the viewport here, like so
and make sure that you lock it again.
Always get into the habit of locking a viewport
when you're not using it.
I'll just hit Escape to deselect the viewport.
So those layers are now off in my drawing, like so.
So what I'm going to do now is jump back to the Model tab
and you'll notice they're all still on in the Model tab.
Isn't that great.
I can actually switch layers on and off in my viewport,
so that they don't plot,
but I don't lose them in the Model tab,
where I need to be working on my drawing.
Now, one of the things I am going to do here,
and it's one of those things, it's called a sanity check.
Have a quick look at your Section View and your Side View.
We're not displaying any hidden detail, anywhere,
for that circle or that center mark there.
Can you see? There's nothing in the middle.
So what we're going to do
is we're just going to click there and select it,
click on the center mark as well and select it.
And we'll just do a right click and an erase.
And you want to make sure that you
sanity check things like that
before you consider plotting or printing your drawings.
I jokingly call it a sanity check
because it maintains my sanity.
I know that the drawing's going to go out correct.
And that my sort of CAD manager OCD doesn't kick in
when I think that I might have sent out a drawing wrong.
So just check those things.
I've deliberately put that in there, by the way,
just to explain that particular statement.
So now if I go back to the Plan View layout tab,
you'll notice that that has disappeared.
I've been able to erase that.
So what I'm kind of demonstrating here
is the fact that I can still do work in the model space,
but when I come back into the layout space,
any changes that I've made
are still representative in that layout, in that viewport.
So I could make changes to those layers
or objects in the model space,
but they won't display, until I, again,
click on my viewport and unlock it.
Double click inside my viewport to activate it.
I'm then going to go back to my layer drop down
and switch those layers back gone.
So there's Center lines, so I'll click there.
That comes back.
As we work down, we want our Dimensions to come back,
so I'm clicking on that little gray one
with the little snowflake.
And also, we want our text back,
that tells us it's our Plan View.
Hit Escape to deselect the Layer dropdown,
double click outside the viewport to deactivate it,
click on the edge of the viewport,
and again, get into the habit
of locking your viewport like that.
Hit Escape to deselect the viewport
and then we'll jump back into the Model tab of the drawing.