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Viewport AutoCAD

By Preeti PrajapatiPreeti Prajapati

Viewport AutoCAD

Introduction to Viewport AutoCAD

Auto Cad is 2d and 3d computer-aided engineering designing software, which Autodesk developed. In AutoCAD, we have different sections in its working screen for managing its work properly. Viewport in one of the important section of Auto Cad. You can understand Viewport as a display window where you can see your work while making any drawing in this software. Here in this article, we will discuss the different components of the auto cad’s viewport and learn how to set a viewport window screen to see more than one viewport at a time. So let us start our discussion about this topic.

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How to set Viewport in AutoCAD?

We will discuss all the important features one by one, but before starting our discussion, let us look at the working screen of this software to understand the viewport better.

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Step 1: At the top of the working screen there is one ribbon which has the number of tabs such as Home tab, Insert tab, View tab, Annotation tab and many more for managing different command in this software, below this we have a working window which you can understand as the viewport, below this working window we have some navigation command for handling our work during making our project in this software.

working window

Step 2: Go to the View tab of the top ribbon of this software. You will find different components of viewport here in this bar. In the viewport screen of this software, we have the UCS icon at the lower left end of this software which shows you x y z plane direction for making any drawing in this software.

top ribbon

Step 3: You make enable this icon from the UCS icon option of the Viewport tool menu of the View tab by click on it.

UCS icon option

Step 4: Next component of this viewport is the View cube which lies at the top right corner of the viewport screen. This view cube helps us change our drawing view, such as you can change your view as Front, Right, Left, or any other by click on this cube.

View cube

Step 5: You can enable this view cube by clicking on the icon of the Viewport tool menu of the View tab of this software.

tool menu

Step 6: We have one more component on the viewport screen:: Navigation the right generally ide of the viewport. You can chants place according to your requirement.

Navigation bar

Step 7: You can also hide it from the viewport screen by click on the icon of the Navigation option of the Viewport tool menu of the View tab of this software.

Navigation option

Step 8: You can go to View Manager options of Named Views menu of view tab of this software for giving a specific name to your viewport for future use after settings different components on the viewport screen.

View Manager option

Step 9: Once you click on this option, a View Manager Dialog box will be open. You can choose your desired viewport from the list of Views option of this dialog box.

Manager Dialog box

Step 10: Now click on the drop-down arrow of the Viewport Configuration option of the Model Viewports menu of the View tab of his software. A drop-down list will be open. Here in this list, we have a different type of viewport style for seeing more than one viewport on the viewport screen at a time. You can choose any one of them to make your work easy in this software such as you can take Two Vertical options for two vertical viewports on the viewport screen at a time or choose any style of three viewport options three viewports at a time on your screen.

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Step 11: Let us understand it by example. I will take the ‘Four Equal’ option from this list. Make click on this option with the mouse button for having it. You can take it according to you.

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Step 12: Now, your viewport screen will change into four viewports like this. Here we have four viewports on our working screen at one time.

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Step 13: You can see there is a gird in only one viewport so that you can add a grid on each viewport. For adding a grid on a particular viewport, select that viewport by click on that then enables a gird option from the navigation command bar by click on it at the bottom of this software.

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Step 14: Now, change the view of different viewport according to you for having suitability during your work from the View controls option of each viewport.

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Step 15: I will change views of each viewport as top, left, front and SE Isometric one by one. You can set it according to you.

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Step 16: Now, let us draw something for our better understanding. Change the screen of this software to 3d basics for having 3d commands bar from workspace switcher option, which is at the right of the bottom end of this software.

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Step 17: Now take the Box command from Create menu of the Home tab of this software by click on it.

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Step 18: Now go to any viewport and draw it. I will go to the SE Isometric viewport and draw it like this. You can see when you draw it in one viewport, different views of this box will display in another viewport according to your chosen view style.

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In this way, you can use viewport settings in auto cad for making your work easy in this software and handle its parameters.

Conclusion

Now, after this article, you can understand what viewport in Autocad is and how you can set more than one viewport on the viewport screen at a time for making your work easy in this software. You can use viewport settings for making a good viewport screen which will be helpful to you in your project work.

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