Freezing or locking a viewport

[Strix]

Sorry if this has been covered before, but I've waded through a few pages of a 'viewport' search, and it's getting tedious reading all the 'help me' threads to find out they don't answer my problem :?

I'm fairly certain that most of our drawings have the viewport on the 'viewport' layer, and in a loud colour so we remember to hide them or turn them off before plotting

I thought that locking this layer also stopped anybody from panning about the modelspace - am I wrong?

I know there's a function 'lock viewport', but I can't find that either


Can somebody tell me how to nail this drawing in its border please?

[dbroada]

if you highlight the viewport you can set the locked state from properties

[Norts]

or you can use MVIEW then L (for Lock), then ON then select your viewport.
Voila, it should now be locked.

[Strix]

Thanks guys :)

of course, selecting the viewport itself was entertaining - as it's interfering with the border - but it's all sorted now :thumbsup:

[lpseifert]

FYI... if you make your viewport layer "noplot", you don't have to turn them off before plotting to hide the border.

[DANIEL]

putting it on a non-plotting layer is definitely the way to go

[Strix]

If I'm here for long enough we may be looking at some standard drawing practices and templates that are workable - so thanks for the info :)

When the person I'm standing if for comes back he's already going to wonder what the new buttons do :wink:

[CADken]

i know your question has already been answered, but i select the viewport, and then type "CH" (to chanhe/view it's properties) and then from there i lock the viewport...

there's a bunch of ways to do it, just thought i'd add a little something something to the conversation. :lol:

[Strix]

There's always more than one way to skin a cat with AutoCAD, so for the benefit of anybody reading this in future, that's handy to know ACDken :thumbsup:

I now have a button which goes ^C^Cmview L on and one that goes ^C^Cmview L off to lock and unlock viewports in one action :star:

[Norts]

I find it is always the most beneficial to have knowledge of the command line versions of commands. to have this knowledge is the first step required to implementing toolbar buttons, lisp and script programs, etc.
AND also, I was brought up with AutoCAD release 12 :wacko:

[acemasi]

Change all viewport layers to defpoints. Anything on defpoints layer will not print out.

cheers

ace

[Cad64]

Change all viewport layers to defpoints. Anything on defpoints layer will not print out.

If you put your viewports on layer defpoints, and then freeze layer 0, your viewport will become unselectable. It's much better to just create a 'Viewports' layer and set the plot option to No-plot.

[comcu]

Strix, thats a really good one.

Could you improve on it though? Ideally when you clicked the Vp on it would switch all vp's on & when you click Vp off, it would switch all Vp off?

cheers,

Colin

[lpseifert]

This might be of some interest:
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=7097.0

[Wozza]

putting it on a non-plotting layer is definitely the way to go

Can't agree with that. I've got some people in the office who used to change the viewport to defpoints or a non-plotting layer and, fair enough, it won't plot. But... I had to check everytime. So now the house rules are: leave it on layer 'Viewport' and if it's visible, turn it off (we've got a toolbar button for the purpose).

I'm a great believer in WYSISWG.

[Strix]

... I'm a great believer in WYSISWG.but that's what 'print preview' is for :wink:

and besides, if you can turn whole layers off, surely the rest of your office have a concept of the drawing containing more elements than somebody can actually see?

[Alan Cullen]

Sorry all.....I have to agree with Cad 64......we put all our viewports on a layer called "z viewport".....no plot......no problem.....:lol: :lol:

[Norts]

Sorry all.....I have to agree with Cad 64......we put all our viewports on a layer called "z viewport".....no plot......no problem.....:lol: :lol:

i've implemented a similar method here too