Michael’s Corner

Michael's Corner is a monthly publication written by Michael E. Beall, Autodesk Authorized Author and peripatetic AutoCAD trainer. Michael travels all over the USA, bringing his fantastic experience and great understanding of AutoCAD to his clients. Michael's Corner brings together many of the tips, tricks and methods developed during these training sessions for the benefit of all users.

Michael's Corner provides something for every AutoCAD user. Every month, a number of articles cover a wide range of topics, suitable for users at all levels, including "The Basics" for those just starting out. Essentially, the aim of Michael's Corner is to help all AutoCAD users work smarter and faster.

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From the Vault

Originally published August 2016

Named Views

This is a portion of the Named View topic from Chapter One of The AutoCAD Workbench — Final Edition…

When saving a view by name, AutoCAD effectively takes the X,Y of the lower left and upper right corners of the screen and puts them in a ‘shoebox’ and labels it with the view name.

Restore the view and AutoCAD opens the ‘shoebox’ and sets the coordinates up, just the way they were when you saved that view.

How to Save a View by Name

1. 

   Zoom to the drawing area you would like to save by name.

2. Click View Manager to open the View Manager (or type the alias, V).

   Note: The View panel of the View tab needs to be enabled to access the View Manager. You can also type V to open the View Manager.

3. Click New, enter a View Name, then click OK.

4. To set a named view to current, you can simply double-click the view name, or select the named view from the list in View Manager, then click Set Current.

If you launched View Manager prior to zooming to the desired view, use the Define View Window button (shown here) to take you back to the drawing so you can define the view window.

Note: Since you can have as many named views as you want, the option to plot a named view is very handy!

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