Creating viewports and title blocks

A viewport is like a window from which you can view a part, or all, of the drawing in the model space. You can create just one or multiple viewports in the same layout. Also, if you want to focus on specific parts of the drawing, it is possible to create viewports with different custom shapes to capture exactly the desired region of the drawing (even if the desired region has an irregular shape). Moreover, the custom-shaped viewports grant the flexibility of placing multiple viewports, in addition to the ability to add different styles of title blocks and notes. Also, each viewport can have a separate scaling factor. In this section, we will learn how to create viewports with different shapes and how to properly adjust their related options and settings.

Creating rectangular viewports

To create a new rectangular viewport, you can click on the button named Rectangular, found in the Layout Viewports panel on the Layout tab (the Layout tab appears...