When you start a drawing session, your initial working area is called model space. Model space is an area in which you create two-dimensional and three-dimensional entities based on either the World Coordinate System (WCS) or a user coordinate system (UCS). Your view of this area is a single viewport that fills the screen. You can add viewports, each showing the same or different two-dimensional or three-dimensional views, all of which are displayed in a tiled manner. You can work in only one of these viewports at a time, and you can print only the current viewport.
Model space with tiled viewports (tilemode = 1).
IntelliCAD® 2001 provides an additional workspace, called paper space. Paper space represents the paper layout of your drawing. In this working area, you can create and arrange different views of your drawing similar to the way you arrange detail drawings or orthogonal views on a sheet of paper. You can also add annotations, create a border, and create a title block.
The paper space views that you create are floating rather than tiled. In paper space, you can place the viewports anywhere on the screen; their edges can be touching or not; and you can print them all at the same time. You do not need to use paper space to print your drawing, but it offers several advantages.
Paper space with floating viewports (tilemode = 0).
After you switch from model space to paper space and arrange different views of your drawing, each view is created as a floating viewport, and each viewport is treated as a separate entity that you can move, copy, or delete. In paper space, you cannot modify the individual entities within the viewport, and zooming or panning the drawing affects the entire drawing.
To edit the entities rather than the layout, you can switch to a third workspace, called model space with floating viewports. In this workspace, each viewport functions as a window into your model space drawing. You can click any floating viewport to make it the current viewport, and then add or modify entities in that viewport. Any changes you make in one viewport are immediately visible in the other viewports. Zooming or panning in the current viewport affects only that viewport.
Indicator | Workspace |
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TILE | Model space, with tiled viewports |
MODEL | Model space, with floating viewports |
PAPER | Paper space |
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Switch to model space with floating viewports