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Defining your page setup

Defining your page setup - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Defining your page setup

- We're staying in our Design Intent.dwg file and I've left it in the same state as it was at the end of the last video, where we created our title block in the model space in our AutoCAD drawing. What we need to do now is take this title block into our layout tab. So we want it to go into this layout tab here, ISO A1-Landscape. Now, the ISO A1-Landscape layout tab is already set to the appropriate sheet size, the ISO A1 sheet size. But we do need to set up an appropriate page setup for that particular title block and that particular layout tab. So, first of all, we need to get this out of our model space, our model tab, and into the layout tab. To do that, you need to select everything that makes up your title block. Ideally, you want to do a window selection or a crossing selection. Now, windows selection, I would take the cursor stroke crosshair to there, click once, drag the blue window over everything,…

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