Working with Tiled Viewports

Tiled viewports are a type of display that splits the AutoCAD LT graphics area into one or more adjacent rectangular viewing areas. Each tiled viewport can display a different view of the drawing. Displaying different views at the same time is useful in large or complex drawings because it reduces the need to zoom or pan in a single view. Also, errors you might miss in one view are apparent in the others.

When the Tile button is turned on in the status bar, you can split the graphics area into several tiled viewports. The viewports completely fill the graphics area and do not overlap. As you make changes in one viewport, the others are updated simultaneously. Three tiled viewports are shown in the illustration below.

Operating in Tiled Viewports

Using tiled viewports, you can

Splitting and Joining Tiled Viewports

The illustrations below show several default viewport configurations. You can modify these configurations by further splitting and joining the viewports. Adjacent tiled viewports can be joined if they share a boundary of the same length.