Practice Exercise | Setting Viewport Scale Factor

In this practice exercise, you draw some objects in model space, then create a rectangular viewport in a selected layout tab. From the layout, you Zoom the viewport in both the model space and paper space modes. Finally, you set the viewport to a specified scale.

  1. Draw some geometry as shown below:
    • Begin a new blank drawing based on acad.dwt.
    • Create the objects in the drawing window without zooming the drawing area.

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  2. Select the layout tab. Notice that it already has a single viewport on it. You are going to erase this and create your own viewport.
  3. To practice making a single viewport, first ...

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