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Matching up layout viewports with the Synchronize Viewports command

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Matching up layout viewports with the Synchronize Viewports command

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another Tip and Trick for AutoCAD. And we're going to look at an express tool now where we can synchronize our viewports in our layout tabs. Now, we've got a new drawing for you to follow along, with video, it's called SyncViewports.dwg. See the name of it there at the top of the screen. And you can download that from the library any time to obviously follow along with the video. Now, what I'd like you to do is once you've obviously got the drawing open, go into the A3 landscape tab, and then jump into your Express tools tab in the AutoCAD ribbon. Just pan and zoom a little, and you'll see those two lower viewports, the bottom left and the bottom right viewport aren't synchronized. We want the circle here to be aligned with the rectangle here in the left-hand viewport. Now, how do we do that? How do we synchronize these viewports so they are, in essence, in line with each other and neat and tidy? Well, that's where we use the Synchronize Viewports command…

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