As mentioned earlier, all the drawing and editing commands will work normally in the paper space tabs; you can use them to create a frame and a title block for your drawing. The dashed lines showing the printable area will help you set the limits of your border frame. A good practice is to use fields with the text of the title block. Adding that to your template will automatically update the text if it undergoes any changes during the life cycle of the drawing's creation.

An example of this is the date of the drawing. If you have multiple drawings—and they have several versions—it will be a tedious task to always update the date on the drawing and the repeated process of updating often produces mistakes. You can simply add the text of the drawing date as a field, which will update automatically. To do so, type the Field command name, then press Enter. Alternatively, you can click on the Field tool button located in the Data panel on the Insert tab, as shown:

This will open the Field window. Here, you have all the types of field text that can be inserted in the drawing. To get the date field, select Other in Field Category, select SystemVariable on Field names, then select date from the System variable list in the middle, and finally, pick the desired date format and press OK, as shown:

The Field window will close and then you will be prompted to paste the date field text at the desired location. Another example of using fields in the title block is with the drawing name, project name, and drawing author. All this data can be added to the drawing properties by opening the application menu and selecting Drawing Properties from Drawing Utilities, as shown:

In case you want to add a property that is not present in the Summary tab, such as the project name, you can click on the Custom tab, click on the Add... button, and type the new property name and the value for it, as shown:

After the data is added to the file properties, if you open the Field window on Document in Field category, you will find all the file properties that were present in the Summary tab, and the custom properties you have added, such as the project name, as shown:

You can select the property and set the formatting as desired. Now, if you want to make an adjustment to the author name, for example, it will automatically update in all the layouts. Simply click on the Update Fields button.

We have learned about the tools used to create a viewport with any desired shape, how to adjust the viewport settings properly, and how to create a smart title block for our drawing. Let's now look at detailed practical examples for creating and setting viewports for two different scenarios.