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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

Editing Layout Views

To edit a layout view, first select its layout Moving Views to a
box using the Select Objects tool. Once Different Page
selected, the view box can be edited using its To move a view from one layout page to
edit handles, edit toolbar or specification another, select the view, click the Open
dialog. See “Layout Box Specification
Dialog” on page 1301. Object edit button, and change the Page
on the LINE STYLE panel of the Layout Box
Using the Edit Handles Specification dialog. See “Layout Box
Specification Dialog” on page 1301.
Layout view boxes can be edited like closed
polyline-based objects. See “Editing Closed- Copying Views
Polyline Based Objects” on page 231.
Just like many objects, views sent to layout
Floor plan views and CAD Details can be can be copied and pasted onto different
rotated. Both the layout box and the view layout pages or even into different layout
inside it rotate. Cross section/elevation and files.
3D views sent to layout cannot be rotated.
As a general rule, though, if multiple copies
In the Specification Dialog of a view are needed, it is best to send the
view to layout as many times as necessary
Layout view boxes can be customized in because each view can then be controlled
their specification dialog. See “Layout Box independently.
Specification Dialog” on page 1301.
Bear in mind, too, that if a layout has views
Using the Edit Tools copied from a different layout file and is later
moved to a different location on your
A selected layout view or views can be computer, the link to the original plan file
edited in a variety of ways using the buttons may be broken. See “Keeping Layout Views
on the edit toolbar. See “The Edit Toolbar” Current” on page 1293.
on page 38.
Editing Dynamic Views
Using Dimensions
Select a Dynamic or Semi-Dynamic view
Like other CAD box-based objects, layout and click the Open View edit button to
views can be moved and resized using open the original view that was sent to
dimensions. See “Moving Objects Using layout. You can also double-click a view of
Dimensions” on page 479. either type in layout to open the original
view. See “Opening Layout Views” on page
1305.

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