Moving around a Viewport

[tomspenguin]

Hi All,

 

My query is to do with panning around a Viewport in paperspace.

 

I might be being a bit simple but.....

 

I have one drawing of a venue with contents and have the same venue but with different contents directly below it.

 

When I copied the venue I locked the ortho and copied the venue.

 

Now my paperspace looks at the first venue.

I have copied that paperspace but wanted to make sure that when I pan down to fit the venue into the viewport that I lock the ortho and hit the same view size and location on the paper as the view before.

 

Is there a keyboard short-cut to lock the ortho as I pan down to the model space I want to see?

 

I have some get arounds but they are quite in accurate, any help would be great.

 

Thanks,

[ReMark]

You say you "locked" the ortho. Do you mean you "enabled" (turned on) orthomode?

 

I really don't see what the problem is. The size of your viewport won't change unless you do it purposely. And even if your viewport scale changes it can be reset quite easily since you already know what scale the original viewport was set to.

[tomspenguin]

I mean like an "ortho" style function which helps you to move the viewport down in a more controlled manner.

 

At the moment the hand tool doesnt move up or down directly to 90 degrees.

 

Is this possible ReMark?

[ReMark]

Need to pan your view within a viewport a specific distance?

Found this answer at the Autocadtips website to a similar question.

 

 

 

Here’s how:

 

• Double click the viewport to activate it
  
• -P to start the pan command in the command line
  
• Pick a point inside of the viewport to specify the base point
  
• Move the cursor in the desired direction of the pan (use ortho)
  
• Enter the specific distance and hit
  

[ReMark]

I mean like an "ortho" style function which helps you to move the viewport down in a more controlled manner.

 

At the moment the hand tool doesnt move up or down directly to 90 degrees.

 

Is this possible ReMark?

 

Is you are moving the viewport and not the contents within the viewport then use the "nudge" capability by pressing and holding down the Ctrl key then using your arrow keys to move in the desired direction.

[rkent]

After starting the pan hold down the shift key.

 

Or use the method described by ReMark.

[rkent]

Here is another method I use sometimes.

While in PS you establish a viewport for one of the views you need. Now copy the viewport on top of itself (pick the same point twice when copying). Now assuming you want the new viewport above the old one, select the viewport, pick one of the lower grips and stretch the viewport up so it is now stretched above the original one. Adjust the new viewport with the grips to show what you want. The viewports are the same scale and the model space information is directly above the other one.

 

or

 

After the first VP is created, copy it up above. Now use VPSYNC, pick the original and then pick the new one. Adjust as needed.

[tomspenguin]

rkent - Thanks for both options. I tried holding shift and moving the viewport about and found my zoom function sometimes happened at the same time, so I think I might avoid this one. Your second option of doubling up and copying viewports sounds like a good plan, I like the VPSYNC tool too, didnt know that one

[tomspenguin]

I like using nudge during space planning but it might take a while to judge it perfectly for creating exact replicas of paperspace.

The -p method is certainly going to be my chosen method, I really like it. The way I set up modelspace to have viewport boxes around each drawing it allows me to get the exact distance to move within the viewport each time.

 

Thanks again Remark, problem solved.

[PURTI]

For that use another layout click the right on the model bar will come a new viewport then you will generate a new view port. So you can done that...

[ReMark]

Purti: The OP was creating another viewport in the same layout not in a second layout.