An additional method to control and customize the viewport is using the properties palette. The properties palette for the viewport displays the usual properties of most of the objects in AutoCAD, such as the color, layer, the coordinates of the viewport's center, the length, and the height.

In the Misc section at the bottom, you will see an option called On, which can be used to turn the viewport on or off. Also, you have an option called Standard scale, which opens a list of the previously shown preset standard scale factors to choose from. If you want to use a scale factor outside of this list, you can use the Custom scale option, which can be used to set the scaling factor to any desired value. The following screenshot shows the location of the scaling options for the viewport in the PROPERTIES palette:

Let's now have a look at a special case, where we want to create multiple views for a three-dimensional model.