Help setting up Viewports at the same size

[BIGMIKE09281946]

Hello, Got this nagging suspicion that one of you Guru's has got an answer for this one. In AutoCAD 2009, whilst doing an exercise from chapter 9 AutoCAD 2009 Tutorial Second Level: 3D Modeling; I am asked to set up two viewports on Layout1 showing a front view and a bisected side view of a circular hub.

 

(After hearing myself say that, I don't see how I can bisect a live object)

 

None the less, I cannot get the front view, and the side view to be identical in size. I have tried for hours and have just about given up, which is intolerable at this time because I might be getting a job in AutoCAD working at home.

 

Any advice will be appreciated.

ACAD_2009_EXERCISE_CHAP_009 (1).dwg

[ReMark]

And both viewports were assigned the same exact scale?

 

I just answered my own question. No. The front view has a scale of 1.01 and the side view a scale of 0.92; why? who the heck knows.

 

Fix it by making both 1:1.

 

Click on the viewport in question. In Properties (or Quick Properties) set Standard scale to 1:1. Other scales are available by clicking the down arrow to view the default AutoCAD scale list. There's one other thing you can do...lock the display (through Properties or Quick Properties). That way, if you enter the viewport and do any zooming or panning around when you exit the viewport the display will reset itself and the scale won't get all messed up.

Edited November 18, 2010 by ReMark

[BIGMIKE09281946]

The things I never learned from Penn Foster, George Omura, Ellen Finklestein, and Randy H. Shih. I can get the 2 viewports pertty dang close, but I suspect that a sectional view is not in the offing for the 2nd viewport. And, Thank you!

[ReMark]

Yes, you can generate a sectional view for the 2nd viewport. It would just take a different command or two depending on the method you used.

 

Another couple of suggestions.

 

1) Create a separate layer just for your viewports. Set this layer to "no print' in your Layer Properties Manager. You'll be amazed at how many times people forget about the viewport frames themselves and end up printing them by mistake along with the rest of the drawing.

 

2) Create a layer for text. Do not put your text and dimensions on the same layer. Every once in awhile you'll get a request to print a drawing "without all those dagnabit dimensions on it" or so says the boss.

Edited November 19, 2010 by ReMark

[BIGMIKE09281946]

I am going to short circuit some gray matter on the sectional view.

[ReMark]

I am going to short circuit some gray matter on the sectional view.

 

Does that mean you have a plan in mind as to how you are going to go about doing it?

[Cad64]

I have renamed this thread and moved it to the 3D Modeling section. In the future, please try to name your threads more appropriately.