Viewports with a solid background

[jonathanperks]

I want to create a viewport in paperspace on top of a complex drawing so I want the viewport not to be transparent. Can you make the viewport solid so you cannot see the drawing behind it?

[rkent]

viewports inside viewports 3 different methods

1) First draw a rectangle that will be the size wanted for the big viewport. Use the Region command and make that a region, now use the Mview command, Object option and pick the region. Adjust the view in that viewport accordingly.

Now draw circles or polygons, etc. that will represent the smaller viewports. Place those where you will want them. Use the Region command again. Use the subtract command and pick the large region then the smaller one(s). Now draw the circles again in the blank space, use the Mview command, Object option. Adjust those viewports accordingly. Because these are regions now you won't be able to edit

them like a normal viewport, IE: grip stretch, etc.

2) In MS use wipeout to hide the area you want another VP to reside. Now in PS use MVIEW and grab the opposite corners of the wipeout.

3) In PS you can draw a continuous pline with a large rectangle and then move into the center and draw a smaller rectangle, all in the same pline command. You will have two plines one of top of the other going to the smaller rectangle but that is ok because it won't show. Now use the MVIEW command and use Object option. Now use MVIEW again to define the smaller viewport grabbing the opposite corners of the small rectangle.