1. Open the drawing file.
2. Click on the Layout 1 tab to make it current.
3. Delete the existing viewport. (You can eliminate the need for this step in future drawings by deleting it from your template file.)
4. Start the ViewBase command. You’ll find it on the Ribbon menu > Layout tab > Create View panel > Base button. A layout tab has to be current for the Layout tab to show. A couple of paragraphs back, I bragged that I could create the 2D drawing views of our sample part in under a minute. Okay, start the clock!
5. Having started the ViewBase command, click on From Model Space in the drop-down menu that appears. One Mississippi …
6. AutoCAD asks for a view location. Click approximately in the center of the lower-left quadrant of the drawing, then click eXit in the context menu or press Enter. … two Mississippi …
7AutoCAD continues asking for view locations. Click above the first view, then to the right of the first view, then approximately in the center of the upper-right quadrant of the layout, then press Enter.
three Mississippi, four Mississippi … and stop the clock, which shows that it took just a few seconds to produce the figure below. That’s a bit faster than the 16 steps I outlined in the previous article, isn’t it?
ViewSection - for sectional views
ViewProj - for additional projections
