Chapter 06

Working with Layouts

Your design is only as good as your ability to communicate it to others. Your drawings can contain a lot of different information, and you need to be able to output a variety of aspects of the design.

Layouts and viewports help you to structure and focus your design and its supporting information for the final step of communicating it to others through both paper and electronic media.

You also need to understand how Layouts and Viewports work before you can add annotations, such as dimensions and text, to your drawings.

Objectives

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify the environments in which you can plot data and create a new layout.
• Create and manipulate viewports.