Viewports

[JASON BOWEN]

How Do I Make The Box/lines That Create The Viewport In Paper Space To Disappear Without Making The Entire Thing Go Away? I Want To Make My Drawings Cleaner And That Box/polygon Is Annoying. Thanks,

[Tiger]

Create a layer called Viewports, set that layer Non Plottable in the layer Manager and move your viewports to that layer.

 

You can also utilize the Defpoints layer that is automatically non-plottable but I prefere to not use that layer.

[JASON BOWEN]

thanks, works like a charm.

[qball]

Viewports on Layer Defpoints works too. And you can turn the layer off that your viewport is on, which will be cleaner on your screen, you can still see the objects in the viewport, but you can't pick the actual viewport for properties, etc.

[Tankman]

Try Viewports on Layer Defpoints this'll work.

As qball stated, "Turn off the layer your viewport is on."

[ammobake]

Sometimes you do want some things to show up though.

 

Like, if you want to show breaklines and the viewport displaying proper information next to and around a break line. This takes a little more work than just a straight-edged viewport.

 

I will usually put the break lines on a plottable layer overlapping the edge of the viewport. The viewport always goes on its own nonplottable layer. That way everything ends up looking seemless and perfect. Then I select "VPORTS" Layer and clip the existing viewport by specifying a new polygonal outline around the break line. You want to select the layer you want the new clipped viewport on first before using the VPCLIP command because the clipped viewport will always end up on the layer you currently have selected. Usually, I will then select the viewport, select "DRAW ORDER" and "SEND TO BACK" so the break lines are always shown on top of the nonplottable viewport. Everything looks nice in the final plot, everything lines up where it with relation to the break line I've displayed. Since I use color dependant plot styles (CTB's) I always put the break line on a layer I know will plot a thick lineweight.

 

My subordinates would say..I'm a stickler for the end-result plot. That is more important to me than anything else. But for good reason. I insist on our drawings always looking seamless and perfect. If it doesn't, it irks me to no end because someone didn't want to take the time to do it. Do the work, make it look nice, your reputation is on the line (At least that's how I see it).

 

-ChriS

[JASON BOWEN]

Awesome Responses To This Posting. I Had No Idea There Was A Place To Get Great Information About Autocad. Thanks To All Of You And To Chris, I Also Want My Drawings To Be Perfect. That Is What The Architects And My Shop Crew See And It Has To Be Right. Thanks Again For Answering The Autocad "greenhorn's" Questions.

Jason