plan and profile viewports

[studiorat]

I need to make to viewports on a single 11x36 sheet
is there a fast way besides sheet manager I do not have the understanding of cad to quite accomplish what they are asking for in the sheet manager option, can some one give me a better solution essentially I need to take a reference drawing put it in its own vp, and a profile of the same area for sewer strip maps and place it in its own vp and align, I tried the viewport dropdown selected 2 horizontal but they did not quite come out like planned!!

[rustysilo]

You'll have to set up a custom paper size for that sheet. I'm assuming you can get that far. If not here's a hint: in the page setup window > properties > custom paper sizes > add

To set up your viewports go to your layout which you may have named "plan and profile sheet 1" or something similar. In the graphic it is "grading & drainage plan" (hilited). This layout will have been set up on the custom sheet size (11x36) in the page setup (right-click layout tab > page setup). Go to your viewports toolbar and set the scale of your viewport using the pulldown (see hilite in graphic) and click the second button from the left to create your viewport (see graphic). Follow the prompts to place the viewport (usually you will simply click two points to place it; one corner then the opposite corner). Activate your viewport (a.k.a. switch to modelspace) by either typing "ms" or clicking the model/paper space toggle button at the bottom of your ACAD window (circled in red in graphic). Then set your rotation using dview > twist. Switch back to paperspace by typing "ps" or use the toggle button. Lock the viewport (click viewport > right-click > display locked > yes). Then you may size your viewport by clicking it and moving or stretching the corners (grips). This will get one of your viewports set up. Follow the same procedure for the other one and you'll end up with two viewports; one plan, and one profile. From here you simply align the viewports by moving them.

[mahahaavaaha]

Hi,

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking but if you in Paperspace (TILEMODE=0) give AutoCAD command MVIEW, would this do what you're requesting?

/Petri