In model space, you can split the drawing area into one or more adjacent rectangular views known as model space viewports.
Viewports are areas that display different views of your model. In large or complex drawings, displaying different views reduces the time needed to zoom or pan in a single view. Also, errors you might miss in one view may be apparent in the others.
Model space viewports completely fill the drawing area and do not overlap. As you make changes in one viewport, the others are updated simultaneously. The illustrations below show several default model space viewport configurations.
Use Model Space Viewports
With model space viewports, you can do the following:
- Pan; zoom; set Snap, Grid, and UCS icon modes; and restore named views.
- Draw from one viewport to another when executing a command.
- Name a viewport arrangement so that you can reuse it on the Model layout or insert it on a named layout.
- Save user coordinate system orientations with individual viewports, useful if you typically work on 3D models (not available in AutoCAD LT).