Trouble with picking viewports for locking and scaling

[jimt]

Hey Guy's, My properties button has quit picking viewports. When I pick the viewport outline, my properties dialog box say's "no selection" Sometimes I get a blank dialog box and have to repick the viewport to get the dialog box to give me information. However, it will not give me the information to set viewbox scale, or will not let me lock the modelspace area so that I can zoom without altering my scale setting. Is there a setting that has gotten changed or what. A week ago the command was working fine. Hopefully, someone might have a solution to my problem. HELP!!!

[Dadgad]

Welcome to the forum.
This problem sounds like the viewports are in modelspace, and were created with the Viewport Configuration Dialogue?
If so, you can neither LOCK nor SCALE them, although you can zoom them to resize.

OR

Are you talking about your PROPERTIES or your QUICK PROPERTIES palette?
If you are talking about your QUICK PROPERTIES, then right click inside the palette, select CUSTOMIZE,
then set the appropriate choices to be included in the VIEWPORT QUICK PROPERTIES palette display.
Click SAVE when you are finished making your selection.

[Dadgad]

Perhaps, if you do mean your quick properties, you need to right click on the quick properties ICON, SETTINGS > then set as shown in the image.

[RobDraw]

It sounds more like the viewport is on Defpoints and the "0" layer is frozen or off.

[CyberAngel]

It's also possible that the viewport is clipped as a polyline. The OP is selecting the viewport and the polyline at the same time, which at first glance don't register as an object.

[Dadgad]

It's also possible that the viewport is clipped as a polyline. The OP is selecting the viewport and the polyline at the same time, which at first glance don't register as an object.

This sounds like a good hypothesis CyberAngel.
In my first response I suggested that maybe the viewport had been placed on DEFPOINTS layer, but later edited it out.
Hard to know til we know, could be any of these really.

[SLW210]

It's also possible that the viewport is clipped as a polyline. The OP is selecting the viewport and the polyline at the same time, which at first glance don't register as an object.

It will still have "All (#)" for however many items are selected, not "No Selection".

Most likely RobDraw is correct. Posting the drawing file would help diagnose, there have been bugs with properties not showing as selecting in past AutoCAD releases.

Dadgad, the OP indicates the use of AutoCAD 2002, no Quick Properties.

[Dadgad]

It will still have "All (#)" for however many items are selected, not "No Selection".

Most likely RobDraw is correct. Posting the drawing file would help diagnose, there have been bugs with properties not showing as selecting in past AutoCAD releases.

Dadgad, the OP indicates the use of AutoCAD 2002, no Quick Properties.

You make an EXCELLENT point, one I noticed very early in the thread, but forgot about.

[jimt]

Thanks for responding to my problem. I have looked at your suggestions and most of them have addressed "quick properties". I am working in ver. 2002 and it does not have a button for this. I went into drafting settings and there is no a tab for "qp" there either. I have tried to reload my menu files to see if that would solve my problem but to no avail. Layer 0 is not causing a problem and I am not overriding a pline with my view boxes. I have always used defpoint layer with on problems to make my viewports so that they would not print if I forgot to turn them off for pirnting. At 71 years old, I may be having a "senior moment" and am not using the correct sequence in opening the properties dialog box. My process is to pick the viewport boundry and highlight it, then pick the properties button and bring up the dialog box to let me scale the viewport or lock it so I could zoom within the viewport window without changing my scale in the process. Now, when I do this, all I get is the dialog box that gives me the alphabetic or categorize options with the box telling me "no selection" at the top window. The only option I have left is to reload my autocad program from scratch and start over. This will be a pain but unless you guys know of any settings in autocad that may have gotten changed by my stupidity, then it may be my only option. Thanks again for your time and suggestions. Jim T.

[jimt]

by the way, SLW210 suggested that I post a drawing file to let you look at but I am not sure how to do this. Let me know the process and it will be done, Jim T.