- [Instructor] We're staying
in our GF 1031 Southeast Madison .dwg file.
And I've left it in the ISO a one landscape layout tab
where we placed our title block and set up our page setup
in the previous video.
What we need to do now is in our Layout tab
we need to communicate our design intent
by scaled view ports.
Now, the good thing is, there's already a view port layer
available to you in this drawing.
But what I'd like you to do
is go to the Home tab on the ribbon first
and then go to Layer Properties in the Layer panel.
Now, what we've got here is,
if we come down the list towards the bottom
there's our view ports layer right there.
Now you'll notice that there's a little plot icon.
Can you see that there,
with a little red no go symbol.
If I click on it, that no go symbol disappears.
If I click on it again, that no go symbol comes back.
You need to make sure
that it's got that little red, no entry, no go symbol.
What that means is that your view ports
will not plot when you print or plot your drawing,
really important.
Otherwise your view ports
are just going to be all over the place,
and they're going to interfere with how you communicate
your design on the drawing.
Also, just double click next to the layer of view ports
on the little sheet of paper that puts the green tick
next to the layer of view ports,
and it makes it the current layer.
You can see that in the Layer Properties Manager.
When I close the Layer Properties Manager
by clicking on the cross, you'll also see
that view ports is the current layer up here
in the layer drop down.
Now, you'll notice when you are in a Layout tab
such as the ISO A1 landscape layout tab, bottom left,
you can see that we have
a contextual ribbon tab as well called Layout.
Click on that for me, and that'll take you
into your layout tab on the ribbon where you can place
a layout view port.
Now you can place as many view ports
as you like in a layout.
But just be sensible here.
You don't want 2000 of them.
I think I've had a maximum of about 25 view ports
in something like an ISO A1 sheet like this.
If you need more view ports,
change the sheet size, create another title block
that's a different size, that's bigger.
Create a new page setup for it
using what you've just learned in this chapter.
I'm just going to place a simple rectangular layout view port.
So up here, in the layout view ports panel,
click on the fly out, select rectangular.
I'm going to pick a point just inside the top left
of the title block, click and drag,
and make it about yay big, about that big.
And as you can see, it automatically places
by way of visible objects to the extents of the objects,
it places everything that's in the model tab
in the view port.
You can even see our little mini me title block
just there like so.
Now, that view port isn't scaled yet,
so we need to set the scale of the view port.
Very quick and easy to do.
So I'm going to click on the edge of the view port.
And if I come down here on the status bar,
I've got a weird and wonderful number, - 0.011245.
Now, roughly speaking, 0.01 is about one to 100
if you look at the ratio, one divided by 100.
So if I click there, you'll notice
that I've got all different view port scales.
Now, if you are using metric or Imperial,
the scales will appear accordingly.
You can go to custom here and you can reset.
So you'll notice there,
I can reset to either metric or Imperial or both.
I'm using a metric millimeters drawing,
so I want the list that is metric scales,
and you can see there they all are on the list like so.
Now, you'll notice that my one to 100 is in a weird place.
I'm going to move that down.
I'd like that to be after my one to 50
so they're all in numerical order.
That's my CAD manager OCD kicking in, so I'll okay that.
So now when I select the view port
and click here on the fly out again,
there's one to 100 right there.
I want it to be one to 100 because I want 1/100
of its original size.
That's the only way I'm going to fit this great big floor plan
onto that tiny little title block there.
So now that's one to 100, just make sure
that you click on this little padlock here,
that locks your view port.
So that scale is now locked.
Hit Escape to deselect the view port.
We don't need the little title block here
in model space anymore.
So we jump back to the Model tab and we double click
on the wheel to zoom extends to our floor plan.
And I'm just going to do a little window selection.
So I'm going to click there, release the mouse button,
drag that over the title block there.
You'll see all the tiny little grips
all bunched up on each other,
just right click and erase that now,
'cause we don't need that in the model space anymore.
So what we've done is not only have we got our floor plan
in the model space full size, real world size.
In the ISO A1 landscape tab now, we have a title block
and we have a view port that is scaling that object
at a standard scale.
You can see it there on the screen, of one to 100.
So everything is now placed and ready
in our drawing to communicate our design intent.
How cool is that?