Setting up the Paper Space (Layout) Environment

About this lesson

Good sheets come from good layouts. This lesson goes deeper into paper space: creating viewports, controlling their scale and organizing layouts for a drawing set.

What you'll learn in Setting up the Paper Space (Layout) Environment

• Creating and arranging viewports on a sheet
• Setting and locking viewport scales
• Placing title blocks and borders
• Organizing multiple layouts in one drawing

Key commands & tools

Coming from AutoCAD? Locking viewport scale after setting it prevents accidental zooming from changing a finished sheet.