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Defining your page setup in your AutoCAD drawings

Defining your page setup in your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Defining your page setup in your AutoCAD drawings

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our GF 1031 Southeast Madison drawing. And we're going to take a look now at how we set up a page setup to communicate our design intent with our simple title block that we've already created. Now the first thing we need to do is get the title block into the layout tab. This is very quick and easy to do. Get your crosshair about there. Left-click and release the mouse button. Drag your window selection over all of the title block and click again. Everything will be selected. Right-click and, on the shortcut menu, go to Clipboard and you want to Copy with Base Point. The base point will be this blue grip in the lower left corner like that. Ignore the stretch vertex, add vertex, et cetera. Just left-click once and you'll see that it specifies base point 9 found on the command line there. Hit Escape a couple of times just to deselect that. We're now going to go over to the ISO A1 Landscape layout tab. Zoom out a little so that you can see all of the sheet…

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