Locking a viewport in paperspace

[DODGE]

Hi Guys Hows everybody going.

Can somebody tell me how I lock a viewport in paperspace once I have got my drawing exactly how I want it. I quite often finish my drawing in model and then set her up in paper at the scale i want, Then sometimes I inadvertantly lose it.

Cheers dodge8)

[Cad64]

Click on your Viewport to select it and then right click, go to "Display Locked" and choose Yes. Or you can select the Viewport, open your Properties palette and lock the Viewport from there.

[DODGE]

Click on your Viewport to select it and then right click, go to "Display Locked" and choose Yes. Or you can select the Viewport, open your Properties palette and lock the Viewport from there.

 

 

Cheers Cad

I new it was something really easy, but I have never done it.

Dodge

[profcad]

Just curious, why don't you scale and lock your viewport while you are inside the viewport?

 

Select the scale from the viewport scale list on the status bar and then click on the padlock.

[DODGE]

Just curious, why don't you scale and lock your viewport while you are inside the viewport?

 

Select the scale from the viewport scale list on the status bar and then click on the padlock.

 

Cheers for that.

Geez I have never used that before. You learn something new everyday.

Thanks for all your help.

D

[profcad]

This capability (locking a viewport while inside it) was add in the 2009 version.

[gsksun4]

Anybody know what the purpose of double clicking on the viewport frame is for other then zooming the viewport to extents? I get what looks like a thick red line as a viewport frame. Looks like a rope.

Glenn

2009LT

[profcad]

gsksun4 - It allows you to maximize the viewport. This gives you a model space view while working in a viewport. The advantage of working in this mode is the ability to work in model space with all the layers frozen in the viewport. You can double click outside the "red rope" to minimize the view.

[gsksun4]

gsksun4 - It allows you to maximize the viewport. This gives you a model space view while working in a viewport. The advantage of working in this mode is the ability to work in model space with all the layers frozen in the viewport. You can double click outside the "red rope" to minimize the view.

 

Thank you for the info.

Glenn

[chulse]

I have a lisp (attached) that sets several variables and locks all viewports for me. Thanks to Lee Mac for putting it together.

It locks ALL vports on every layout in one motion.

psfix.lsp

[Alan Baker]

But how do you lock into paper space if you have zoomed in and cannot find the viewport edge to click on it? I have made a lot of changes and thought paper space was locked so now I cannot zoom out - the drawing is not locked?

[Cad64]

Just type PS at the command line and hit Enter. That will switch you to paper space and then you can zoom out.

[BIGAL]

You can make a selection set of all your viewports, and loop through them and set to locked. No user interaction. Done via a lisp. Now where did I put it.

 

Also think make a new layout with a matching viewport at scale of a point picked in model space, the locking can be part of that program as suggested previously when making a viewport.

[SLW210]

If you have it activated, there is a button on the bottom status bar for Model or Paper.