Adjusting Size of Viewports

[gsksun4]

When creating viewports in my layout, I go into view, viewports, and select how many I want. It pretty much fills the layout screen and it's hard to adjust the size of them using the grips so I can put my title block/border in. Just seems like a lot of work. I sometimes just do mview and window a viewport and copy. Seems easier to me somehow. Am I going about this the correct way? I followed the tutorial here and it works, but might there be an easier way?

Glenn

2009LT

[rkent]

Mview is very easy. But insert you title block first.

 

Even easier is to have your template file set up with a border and one or two viewports already in there. Every time you start a drawing you already have your border and two viewports ready to go.

[gsksun4]

Mview is very easy. But insert you title block first.

 

Even easier is to have your template file set up with a border and one or two viewports already in there. Every time you start a drawing you already have your border and two viewports ready to go.

 

Good advice rkent. I'm used to putting the border in last, as I use a lot of other peoples drawings and take their border off first thing. I usually scale my border up to fit around their drawing. But your advice is good for original drawings.

Thanks again for your help.

Glenn

[rkent]

Good advice rkent. I'm used to putting the border in last, as I use a lot of other peoples drawings and take their border off first thing. I usually scale my border up to fit around their drawing. But your advice is good for original drawings.

Thanks again for your help.

Glenn

 

Hold on a bit, you say you scale your border ....? It sounds like you are working in layouts or paperspace. Why would you ever scale your border? I would insert my border at 1:1 scale, so a 24x36 border will be exactly that. Then you reduce the size of the viewports to fit inside the border, finally change the scale factor of the viewport. Unless I am missing something you must not be plotting to scale.

 

And assuming everything is in model space but the titleblock you might be better off starting a new drawing from your template, then inserting the drawing you are modifying in model space and going from there.

 

Sorry if I misunderstood what you are doing or I presumed too much.

[gsksun4]

Hold on a bit, you say you scale your border ....? It sounds like you are working in layouts or paperspace. Why would you ever scale your border? I would insert my border at 1:1 scale, so a 24x36 border will be exactly that. Then you reduce the size of the viewports to fit inside the border, finally change the scale factor of the viewport. Unless I am missing something you must not be plotting to scale.

 

And assuming everything is in model space but the titleblock you might be better off starting a new drawing from your template, then inserting the drawing you are modifying in model space and going from there.

 

Sorry if I misunderstood what you are doing or I presumed too much.

 

rkent, thanks for the reply. No, I'm new to viewports, so I'm testing the waters so to speak. When I work with other peoples drawings, they are drawn real world in model space. I haven't needed viewports with these, so I insert my border to fit around the floor plan. I don't plot these to scale. I plot 22x24 to fit, not to scale and I plot in model space. I'm practicing the viewports on some new drawings I'm creating so as to learn the technique.

As always, your advice is well apreciated and I thank you.

Glenn