Expert: Bill DeShawn - 9/15/2006

Question
I have a drawing and a specific area has a great degree of detail.  I would like to cut this area out or redraw it and redisplay it larger than the rest so my client can see the detail.  How can I accomplish this?

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Answer
I am assuming you drew the detailed area in model space.  That being the case, copy the detailed area to clipboard.  Go to a layout (Layout1 will do if it hasn't been used yet.)  Paste the contents of the clipboard to anywhere in Paper Spce.  Then with PLINE, draw rectangle that will represent a border or title block for your drawing.  Or perhaps you can just insert your title block in paper space.  Scale your title block to a compatible scale for plotting, and still be able to contain your objects.  Now here's the weird part.  You don't want to use the objects you pasted in the drawing to be in paper space permanently, because there would be actually two representations of your detail.  So, with MVIEW, you can draw another rectangle, but it must be inside the border and big enough to contain the detail objects.  What you just did was create a viewport big enough to contain the objects you want to display.  But the viewport is currently showing your whole drawing in the same space you want to show only a small portion of it.  Don't zoom in so close that you can't see the boundary of the viewport.  Double click in the viewport to go to model space (not to be confused with Model Tab).  You are still in the Layout, but you are in Model Space now within the layout.  You're viewport is not locked yet, so, first zoom window to the approximate location of your detail objects and then type ZOOM 1XP .   This will make the scale of the model space objects equal to the scale of the paper space objects.  Then double-click outside the rectangle of the viewport to change back to paper space and if you are not in a vertical product like ADT or MDT or LAND (in other words if you are using "Vanilla AutoCAD", then you should be able to right click on the viewport and select "Display Locked".  When the viewport locked, you can go back into Model Space, zoom and pan and not change the scale in the viewport.  From paper space, you can now adjust your viewport boundary so that it fits around your model space detail objects.  The detail objects you put in paper space are no longer needed.  You may erase them.

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