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Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021

You're reading from   Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021 A no-nonsense, beginner's guide to drafting and 3D modeling with Autodesk AutoCAD

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789809152
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yasser Shoukry Yasser Shoukry
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Jaiprakash Pandey Jaiprakash Pandey
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to AutoCAD 2. Basic Drawing Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Learning about Modify Commands 4. Working with Arrays and Reusable Objects 5. Managing Drawings with Layers and Properties 6. Working with Hatches, Text, and Dimensions 7. Tables, Isometric, and Parametric Drawings 8. Customization Tools 9. External References and Dynamic Blocks 10. Introduction to 3D Modeling 11. Creating Primitive 3D Shapes 12. Conversion between 2D and 3D 13. Modifying 3D Objects 14. Surfaces and Mesh Modeling 15. Paper Space Layouts and Printing 16. Rendering and Presentation

Configuring multiple viewports

When working in 3D, it is a good practice to use multiple viewports. In AutoCAD you can divide the drawing area into multiple viewports with different configurations. An easy and quick way to switch to the multi-viewport is to click on the Single viewport button located in the View panel in the Home tab in the 3D Modeling workspace, as shown in the following figure. The button will expand to a small list with two entries, the second of which is the Multiple viewports option:

Figure 10.22: Location of Multiple viewports tool button in the 3D Modeling workspace

When clicking on the Multiple viewports button, the drawing area will automatically be divided into four equal viewports. Each viewport can have a different view angle and visual style, in addition the boundaries can be clicked and dragged to resize the viewports, as shown in the following...

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