Hello. In this lesson, we are going to start off with creating and using named views. Now, before we get started, as you can see here on my screen, I have AutoCAD LT 2022 opened. That means that yes, you can perform this lesson using either AutoCAD the full version or AutoCAD LT. I also have opened up the creating and using named views drawing. So once you have that opened on your screen, let's go ahead and follow along. To access our views or our view manager in AutoCAD, we're going to do that from the view tab. So along the ribbon, I'm gonna come up here to view. And under the named view section, we have this dropdown here. Right now, it says unsaved view. We're gonna click this dropdown and you can see here, I have several named views already created, then I have several preset views already created. So let's click on one. I'm gonna click on the stair detail one. And there, now you can see what a named view does. A named view is really just a snapshot of a particular set of coordinates on your screen. Let's switch to another named view. Let's go to stair section one and there we have a preview of what the stair section one is. Let's go to another one. Let's go to stair detail two, and there you have it. So using named views is a quick way to get to a predefined view setup within your drawing. Now, we have named views for model space and we have named views for the layout tab. Right now, we're in the layout tab sections in details. And these views are the views that are saved in the layout. Let's click over to the model tab. So now we're in the model tab and if we were to go over to named views in the ribbon and click dropdown, those same views do not display here. Let's go ahead and create our first named view. So let's go to view manager. That's one way we can create a view. I'm gonna click away or we can click right here for new view to create a view. Let's go back to the view manager. So now, we're taking a look at the view manager dialog box. And in here, you can see our settings for our different views. So we have our layout views, which we saw when we were in the layout tab. Here's our preset views. We can hit the plus to expand this. And then for model views, we don't have any views set up yet. So let's go ahead and create a model view now. So with model view selected, let's click on new. And here, we can define a name for our view. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna create a view for this detail right here. So I'm gonna call this detail one. And for view category, we're gonna leave this as blank. For the boundary, it can be the current display, which is what we're looking at right now on our screen, or we can define a window, so I'm gonna click on define window, and now I can zoom in and then draw a bounding box around the area I would like to click to be my view. Once you're done, press Enter to accept. Next, we have the option to save the layer snapshots with the view. That is going to save the current settings for your layers whether they're on or off, whether they're thawed or frozen, whether they're locked or not. That's what this setting is gonna be. If you're in the beginning of creating a drawing and still in the habit of creating new layers, I would not suggest that you save the layer snapshot because when you go to restore this view, it's gonna take it back to the way it is right now. So right now, we're gonna uncheck this and the UCS coordinate, we're gonna leave this at world, then we're gonna say OK. And we've just created our first view under model views. To test this, we're gonna say OK here. And we're gonna zoom out to anywhere else on the screen. Up here in our view manager, we have our detail one. We're gonna click on it and we're zoomed into that particular detail, which is our named view that we just set up. Let's look at another way of creating views in our drawing. So I'm gonna zoom out again to a different area. How about over here? I'm gonna come back over here to the view tab and I'm gonna click on the new view button. Click on the new view button. You are brought up with the new view dialog box and we're gonna call this detail two. View category, we're gonna leave it as none. And we're gonna define our window, draw a bounding box around here. For now, let's do half of it. When we're done, press Enter and we're gonna not save the layer states and say OK. So let's zoom away, come back over here to this view that we just created, detail two, and it takes us to that view. Let's say if we needed to make changes to it. We didn't like how this view was set up. You see how it's a little off-centered? Let's go back to the view manager. And here, we can select our view, the detail two, and we can edit the boundaries. From here, we're given an option again to drag our bounding box around our view. Notice how it grays out all of the portions that's not in the view and white is the portion that's currently in the view. So this is gonna be my new view setting. Now it's all in white. I'm gonna press Enter and I've just updated my view. You can also change the view name and any other options that are not grayed out to you by just clicking over here on the box. If you had already created this view earlier and you've added additional layers and you've changed some settings in that view, you can now come back over it with this view being selected and say update layers and it will save the current layer settings in your drawing to this view. From the view manager, you can also set another view current. We're gonna click on the detail one view. I'm gonna set it to be the current view. We see the preview of it down here. Because we still have this dialog box open, it's not going to necessarily take place until we press OK on the dialog box. Say OK and it jumps over to that view that we just set current. So that was a look at creating views and using the view manager in AutoCAD. Thanks for watching this lesson. Join me in the next lesson where we will take a look at model space viewports.
