Introduction to AutoCAD 2020: A Modern Perspective

Chapter Fourteen: Managing Paper Space Layouts

Chapter Objectives

• Understand how and why paper space layouts are used

• Associate a printer/plotter with a layout

• Set the page size of a layout

• Create and import page setups

• Create layout viewports

• Set the viewport display scale

• Lock the viewport display

• Control layer visibility per viewport

• Modify viewports

• Create and manage layouts

• Explore the paper space linetype scaling feature

Introduction

In Chapter 1, we explained how AutoCAD has two distinct drawing environments: model space and paper space.

Remember that model space is the theoretically infinite 3D drawing environment where you locate most of the line work and annotation features that make up a drawing. To draw in model space, you select ...