From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Areas
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Inserting the area table - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Areas
Inserting the area table
- [Voiceover] Last but not least, we need to work out where we're going to place and insert our area table, from the table style that we've actually created. So you'll notice right now, I'm in the Model tab and you can see there that we've got our areas. What we need to do now is create a Viewport in the Layout tab to a suitable scale and then we're gonna place the table in the layout tab, ready to link the areas across to the text in the table. So I'm gonna go down here, bottom left, to zero-zero ground and go into the Layout tab. What I'm then going to do is I'm gonna go to the Home tab on the ribbon. I'm gonna go into the Layers panel here and make sure that FM-Viewports is my current layer, so I'll click on it there, on the Layer flyout and then go to the Layout tab on the ribbon and create a rectangular Viewport, like so. Just pick a point roughly in the corner. It could exactly be the corner, if you wish. And you want to place it, roughly speaking, about sort of there, like…
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