Displaying multiple views

When you begin a new drawing, it is displayed in a single window. You can view the drawing in a second window, or you can divide one window into multiple windows. You can also open and display multiple drawings.

Working with multiple views

You can open and work with several views of the same drawing simultaneously. There are two methods for dividing the current drawing into multiple views:

After you divide a single window into multiple windows, you can control each window separately. For example, you can zoom or pan in one window without affecting the display in any of the other windows. You can control the grid, snap, and view orientation separately for each window. You can restore named views in individual windows, draw from one window to another, and name window configurations individually so you can reuse them later.

As you draw, any changes you make in one window are immediately visible in the others. You can switch from one window to another at any time, even in the middle of a command, by clicking the window's title bar.

Opening a new window

You can open additional windows to create more than one view of a drawing. To open a new window, choose Window > New Window. After you open a new window, you can change its display without affecting any of the other windows.

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Saving window configurations

Working with multiple drawings

Working with multiple windows

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Create multiple views

Join two views

Name and save a window configuration

Restore a named window configuration