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- So, in AutoCAD 2021,
we can go to the view tab here, like so
and you can see that there's a named views panel
and I can look at my views here
and you can see that we've got entrance
and patio area is named views.
Now, if you're using an older version of AutoCAD
you won't have that named views panel.
So you go here to top, click on there, and you get a fly out
and there's your custom model views,
entrance and patio area.
So what we're going to do is we're going to work
with a new layer in the drawing.
So we're going to go to the home tab on the ribbon
and we need to make sure
that we're using the landscaping layer.
So we click on the layer dropdown,
lots of layers in this drawing,
make sure you use the right one
which is A landscaping,
make that the current drafting layer.
And what we're going to look at first
is rectangles and polygons.
So we're going to go to the entrance named view first.
Now, I'm going to use the view tab here on the ribbon
and the named views panel, but you can use the top pair
and go to custom model views here if you wish.
If you want to lose that menu,
just hit escape a couple of times.
So we're going to go to the entrance named view.
There it is there, and that'll zoom in to the entrance.
Now, once you've done that,
go back to the home tab on the ribbon and just make sure
that A landscaping is still your current drafting layer.
Okay, very important.
You'll find out why in a moment.
Now, we're going to create a rectangle
which is going to represent some hard standing
outside the entrance of the building.
So, draw a panel here, up to the little fly out there
and select rectangle.
And the first corner of your rectangle
is going to tally up with the windows here.
So use that intersection there, left-click
so you can see the rectangle is coming off there like so.
Now, go up here and hover over the other intersection
and the other side of the door opening and don't click
but just drag vertically downwards, like so,
using your polar tracking.
I'm not worried about how deep you go with this
but you can see there I'm at 4294.8,
you could type a value in if you wanted to.
I'm not too worried.
I'm just going to left-click
and there's my rectangle there utilizing my object snaps
and my object snap tracking.
But we've tied in
and it's tallying out with the window openings
either side of the door there for the entrance.
Now, we're going to double-click on the wheel
and zoom extents like so
and then we're going to go back to our named views.
Now, this time, I'm going to use the top option here
in the view control, custom model views
and patio area like so.
Now, as soon as I do that, keep an eye
on the layers in the layers panel, it's gone to viewpoints.
We didn't make a change
that's because when you create named views,
AutoCAD creates what is called a layer snapshot.
It remembers the layer settings
when the named view was created.
So in this case, the current drafting layer was view ports.
when the patio area named view was set up.
So, we just need to make sure
that we go back to the layer dropdown,
find our landscaping layer and you'll notice it's frozen.
So it's remembered that it's even frozen
when this particular name view is created.
So we need to thaw it out.
We'll also thaw out the setting out layer
and then we'll select our A landscaping layer
as the current drafting layer.
We'll then zoom in a little bit.
You don't have to stay with the view
that the name view gave you.
And I might come back one notch there
just so we've got a nice clean bit of space
ready for our patio area.
So we're staying on the A landscaping layer,
I'm going back to the drawer panel now
I'm clicking on the flyer.
I'm selecting polygon this time.
I want a hexagonal patio area
outside of the side entrance of the building.
So, number sides for hexagon will be six,
type that in and press enter.
And it's now asking for the center of the polygon.
Now, I don't want a center.
I want to specify an edge.
Notice on the command line at the bottom of the screen
there's an edge sub option.
If I right-click that also appears on the shortcut menu.
Select edge, and then using your object snaps
you're going to select this wall corner here, left-click
come down to this wall corner here, left-click.
And when you zoom out slightly, you can see
that we've got a nice hexagonal patio area
coming off of that opening there
on the side of the building.
And again, like with the entrance, we're tallying it up
with the window openings
so it all looks neat and tidy
on the side of the building there.
All you've got to do now is do a double-click
on the wall to zoom extents.
And you can see now, if I just zoom out one notch there
we've got some nice landscaped, hard standings, a patio area
to the right of the building and an entrance area
down there at the bottom where the entrance doors are
for the building too.
And you can see how quick and easy it is to create
those hard standings using the rectangle
and the polygon command.
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