Multiple viewports question

Hello all,

New to this so please bear with me.

I am finishing a college drawing at the moment and am trying to set different views in my veiwports 8 in total. How do you go about changing the view in one while not altering the others.

Any comments appreciated,

Thanks.

I typically set the scale then use the PAN command to zero in on the portion of the drawing I'm interested in.

By the way, I hope you are enabling the "Display locked" option for each of your viewports once you have them set up the way you want.

Thanks for getting back so quickly,

Enabling the display locked option helps so thanks for that. 2 of the viewports are to be empty. Scrap viewports they call them in class, but when I delete the model in 1 viewport it disappears in all. Do you know how to get round this problem?

Thanks.

also, bear in mind that the variable UCSFOLLOW affects whether the viewports 'snap' back to zoom extents when you enter it (double click inside). if it annoys you enter the variable, and set it to zero, not 1. personally i prefer it to be on 1, and do as remark says, religiously lock all my viewports.

change the scale by choosing from the preset scales in the drawing using the properties palette or maybe bottom right of workspace, if 2007 has this feature.

if you delete stuff in a viewport, it is deleting model information. this means you are basically deleting information for the file. better to turn off layers in the viewport (LAYOFF or LAYFRZ) or pan it so your model does not show in the window.

Thanks that does the job.