I'm reading Ron Burling's "DraftSight Sheet Space and Model Space", which I appreciate very much. But maybe my problem has something to do with the fact that I'm on and iMac? Anyway, I get to here:

"To see the required views of the model one or more viewports will be needed on each sheet – one viewport for each view of the model. A default sheet will most likely show one rectangular viewport when it appears. That viewport probably needs resizing, after the sheet configuration has been set up and applied, by selecting the viewport boundary and dragging its grips (blue highlights) until it suits the sheet size and view layout."

Okay. I'm looking at Sheet2. There's my very big architectural model. I want to detail a corner of it with dimensions. I zoom into a corner and try to dimension it but the dimension font is takes up most of the view!

From here on in Ron's article, I just don't see what he's talking about. Viewport boundary? Scale this and that? I don't see how to proceed.

Is there a tutorial for setting up sheets with paper scaled dimensions? How do I proceed from here? The help file is too terse for me. Sorry! 

I think Ron did a great job explaining model and paper space concepts, but now I need to know how to do this stuff in DraftSight.

Thanks!

Jack