Trouble with picking viewports for locking and scaling

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!!!

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lower right of the reply box is a button "Go Advanced" then select "Manage Attachments" browse to the folder for your drawing, then upload.

Have you tried opening properties, then use the select objects button?

What is your PICKFIRST and/or PICKADD?

SLW210, I have uploaded a sample file in ver 2002. It is a dwg file with one viewport in paper space. My pickadd and pickfirst values are (1). I have tried your suggestion of opening the properties command and then picking the objects button in the dialog box but no cigar.

SAMPLE.dwg

I can select it and the properties work.

What ver. autocad are you using? Also, what is your proceedure for selecting the viewport and properties button? I am sure the drawing file is ok but I don't know about my menu commands. As said earlier, I pick the viewport outline and highlight it and then pick the properties button to bring up the dialog box but I don't get the information to lock and scale my viewports, only the Alphabetic and categorized dialogs are displayed. Is there a way to reinstall my menu files without starting over from scratch? Thanks,

Tested in 2002 and 2011. Works a variety of ways. Did you try the reverse and open your propeties box and then select the viewport?

Sounds like you have ran a registry cleaner, you will need to completely uninstall then reinstall AutoCAD 2002, unless you have a restore point to go back to when properties worked.

You may have pegged the problem. My computer was really bogging down and I uploaded a program called speedy computer. And it did clean my registry. I thought hard about doing it but I was going out of my mind waiting for my computer to work. So stupid me, I tried it. The program runs automatically and scans my computer every night. So I am going to uninstall the darn thing and reinstall autocad. If you were close enough I would bend over let you kick my backside. ;-)

Let us know if that's the fix.

In the past when I have posted a drawing, there was an option to add an attachment. It worked just like any email or cell phone MMS, you just add the file.

Most reputable Registry cleaners will create an UNDO file that can be used to put back anything that was removed from the Registry during the cleaning process. Does the program you used have such a feature?