How do you use viewports and layouts to scale drawings in AutoCAD for different purposes?

Layouts are pages that you create in AutoCAD to arrange and present your drawing in a specific way. Each layout is like a blank canvas where you can place your drawing, add annotations, title blocks, and other elements. You can also customize the size, orientation, and scale of your layouts to fit your needs. Viewports, on the other hand, are windows that you create within a layout to display a portion of your drawing at a specific scale. You can create multiple viewports in a single layout to show different parts of your drawing or to display different views, such as 2D or 3D views. Each viewport can be customized with its own scale, layer visibility, and other settings.

No AutoCAD, os viewports e layouts s?o recursos fundamentais para controlar como seus desenhos s?o exibidos e impressos. Ao trabalhar com o AutoCAD, dominar o uso eficaz de viewports e layouts é essencial para criar desenhos profissionais e bem apresentados. Eles oferecem flexibilidade significativa para controlar a visualiza??o e impress?o dos seus desenhos em diferentes escalas e orienta??es. Legal que você usar diferentes formas de viewports ao criar elas através de objetos. Importante destacar que é na viewports o local indicado para certas tarefas, por exemplo quando se trata de desenhos georreferenciados ainda existe quem rotaciona os elementos no model, e isso é totalmente errado.

To set up your model space in AutoCAD, start by choosing the units you want to work in and setting up your drawing area using the "Limits" command. Adjust your grid settings and choose appropriate layers for your drawing using the "Layer" command. Then, begin drawing your objects using various drawing and editing tools. Save your drawing frequently using the "Save" or "Save As" commands. Remember to keep your drawing organized and neat by using layers and accurate measurements. Finally, make sure that your drawing is scaled properly before you present or print it in a layout. By following these steps, you can create a well-organized and accurate model space in AutoCAD.

After modeling your 2D or 3D designs in the model space, one needs to setup a page layout that will plot your work and the desired format. On the status bar, next to the Model tab, there are two predefined layout tabs. You can modify them to suit your needs or delete and create new ones of your choice. Preparing the layout before plotting requires a tittle block, and viewports and other necessary geometries that can best display your output. The PAGESETTUP command is used to define the formatting properties of the plot file.

Once you have successfully created a layout view or modified an existing one, the next is to populate it with your designs. One way this can be done is through viewports. Viewports can take any shape that best describes a view of part or whole of your drawing. To create a viewport in a layout view, choose a preferred layout viewport tool from the Layout Viewport panel on the layout tab on the ribbon. Place it at a desired position setting the size and scale.

There are two ways to setup your viewport scale. The first one changes the scale of the drawing in the viewport as well as the size of the viewport. This is achieved by choosing the layout viewport boundary and selecting the preferred scale from the scale grip. With the second method, double click inside of the viewport. On the toolbar below the drawing space choose your preferred scale. Note this method changes the scale of the viewport without resizing it.