viewports zooming to extents on exit

[jt6572]

hi everyone,
i am using ACAD 2000 (arch desktop) and whenever i create a second viewport they all zoom to extents after exiting them. the only way to avoid this is to lock the display for the vport, which is very annoying when i have several on a layout and i need to edit them.
can anyone help with this? it is driving me mad!!

thanks, jeff

[vrichard]

Hi Jeff,

:? before it changes to zoom extents does it let you scale the object in the vport to a specific scale ie 1:20?

Vics

[Kate M]

Jeff,

Check out the UCSFOLLOW variable. Keep in mind you have to set it for every viewport.

[jt6572]

hi kate and vics,
thanks very much for the input.
i have the ucs follow set to 1 as i need to have different rotations in different viewports.
there is no problem with scaling within the viewport; it just zooms to extents when i click in another vp without locking the display of them.
:(

[jt6572]

have just been having more of a play with the ucsfollow for the vps. if it is set to 1 for all (without locking the display) they all zoom to extents and/or rotate with the ucs the same way.
changing the ucsfollow to 0 after rotating / scaling solves the prob, but then that is more work than locking the displays....
:unsure:

[jt6572]

all sorted. the solution is to use ucsfollow only in modelspace and to save ucs's to be restored in viewports.