Title blocks and viewports

[Anonymous]

Hello

I have just completed a course in 2D and 3D Autocad and acquired the MEP software with a view of spending a bit more time behind a desk and less time on building sites.
Although the course I attended was good, it seem to concentrate on all of the tool and modify functions which was great but didn't at all touch on the creation of title blocks insterting fields, or view ports.

Can anyboby give me so advice on how or where i can find the information i need to get this set up.

Richie 

[Shrestl]

First off!  Welcome to the Autodesk Community, and thank you for posting your question here in the AutoCAD Architecture forum!  

1. First For help on creating title blocks, I have a youtube video that might help from lynda.com (now LinkedIn Learning)  Preparing a template with a title block
2. For inserting a title block you would want to either open up the newly created dwt file from the link above, or you can bring in the titleblock as an xref or copy one from an existing drawing to your clipboard and paste from clipboard into your paper space.  I found working with dwt.'s or xrefing was the best method for me.
3. For creating viewports you can:  

• If necessary, click a layout tab.

• Set the current layer to a layer that's reserved for layout viewports (recommended).

• The border visibility of layout viewports is controlled by layer visibility. Whether this layer is plotted is controlled by the setting in the Plot column in the Layer Properties Manager.

• Click Layout tab>Layout Viewports panel>Insert View.

• Do one of the following:

1. If named views have not been saved in model space, click two points to define a rectangular view from expanded model space. Press Enter to accept the results or click two more points.
   If one or more named views were previously saved in model space, click to choose a named view from the gallery.
2. If one or more named views were previously saved in model space, click the New View button at the bottom of the gallery. Then, click two points to define a rectangular view from expanded model space. Press Enter to accept the results or click two more points.

• Right click to display a list of scales and click one of them.
• Click to place the layout viewport on the layout.
• To adjust the size, shape, and border of the new layout viewport, select the layout viewport and click a size grip one of the corners of the viewport object.
• To move the layout viewport, click the move grip at the center of the viewport and click a new location. Alternatively, you can use the Move command.
• To change the display scale, click the triangular scale grip near the center of the layout viewport. You can also select the edge of the viewport object, and specify the viewport scale in the Properties palette.

Please let me know if this answers your question.

[ty_johnston]

Is this the same for AutoCAD 2024?