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Saving and restoring views

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Saving and restoring views

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- [Voiceover] We're in the last video of this section now and what we're going to look at now is saving and restoring views in any AutoCAD drawing. So we're still in the 03_NavigatingDrawings.dwg file and we're still in the Plan view and we're in the Model tab. And what we're going to do, we're going to save a view of the staircase over here on the left. This staircase here. You can see it highlighting as I move over it. So the plan is to actually save that view and what you need to do is save that view in the View Manager. Now, you may think to yourselves where is the View Manager? I haven't seen that one before. It's actually up here. Can you see that we've got a Top view there showing in that particular view control there? And we've got our visual styles here, 2D Wireframe. Now if I click on that Top view, like that, I can change my view, but I can also open up the View Manager, like that. So if I click there like so, that will bring up the View Manager dialog box. So I can now…

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