Moving Drawing Views

You move a view by clicking and dragging when the pointer changes to include . This pointer appears when you are over the view border, a model edge, and so on. You can drag the view in its allowed directions.

Click Drawing View2 (the upper left view on the sheet), then drag it up and down.
Click Drawing View3 (the lower right view), then drag it left and right.
Drawing View2 and Drawing View3 are aligned to Drawing View1, and move in only one direction to preserve the alignment.
Click Drawing View1 and drag it in any direction. The other two views move to maintain alignment with Drawing View1.
Move the views on the drawing sheet to the approximate positions shown.

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