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Creating a layout and adding a viewport

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Creating a layout and adding a viewport

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- [Voiceover] We're now in a new section of our AutoCAD 2017 Essentials course, and what we're going to be looking at is creating layouts and their associated annotation. So we're talking about things like title blocks, scaled viewports, basically in an effort to communicate our design intent with AutoCAD itself. Now, what we want to do is we want to show information from the model tab in a layout tab. So we're going to create a new layout and then we're going to add a viewport to a particular scale to that layout. Now, you'll notice in the bottom left corner of the drawing, we have the Model tab and the Layout1 tab. There's a little plus sign next to the layout one, right down here. If I hover over that, I can create a new layout just by clicking on it. However, you might want to copy an existing layout. If that was the case, you'd right-click on Layout1 and use the Move or Copy tool. So if I click there, I can create a new layout, which is a copy of Layout1, move it to the end, and…

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