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Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021
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Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021

by Yasser Shoukry, Jaiprakash Pandey
May 2020
Beginner
826 pages
19h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Method 2

An additional method to control and customize the viewport is using the properties palette. The properties palette for the viewport displays the usual properties of most of the objects in AutoCAD, such as the color, layer, the coordinates of the viewport's center, the length, and the height.

In the Misc section at the bottom, you will see an option called On, which can be used to turn the viewport on or off. Also, you have an option called Standard scale, which opens a list of the previously shown preset standard scale factors to choose from. If you want to use a scale factor outside of this list, you can use the Custom scale option, which can be used to set the scaling factor to any desired value. The following screenshot shows ...

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ISBN: 9781789809152