3D AutoCAD 2004/2005: One Step at a Time

Overview

Following this lesson, you will:

• Know how to work with a Paper Space drawing

  • Know how to use layers in Paper Space

  • Know how to use text in Paper Space

  • Know how to dimension in Paper Space

  • Know how to plot a Paper Space drawing

• Know how to use MVSetup as a floating viewport editor

• Know how to use Regenall and Redrawall to refresh viewports

You've seen how to show a drawing (a model) at different scales on the same page. But what'll happen to text and dimensions when the scale changes? What'll happen when you need to show information in a detail that you don't want to see on the plan (after all, that's why we use details)?

Up until now, you've determined text and dimension sizes using a mathematical formula based on the desired size at plot time and the drawing scale factor. An undiscovered error in your math might have wreaked havoc when you went to plot the drawing and discovered that all the text and dimension elements had to be resized.

In creating Paper Space, AutoCAD took these problems into consideration and provided some clever solutions. In Lesson 22, we'll investigate these solutions as well as some tricks to control the display both inside and outside of your viewports.

Let's begin.