Circular Viewport

[Dipali]

I Know About Polygonal Viewports

But Can A Viwport Boundary Be Circle?

[ReMark]

Yes.

 

In layout draw a circle. Then click on View > Viewports > Object. Select your circle.

[skipsophrenic]

Dip,

 

Try "ConvertObject to Viewport" on the viewport toolbar.

It works for me

 

EDIT: ReMark beat me to it again by 2 mins this time!

[ReMark]

Or, in your layout, at the command line you can type: mview then select the option Object. From AutoCAD Help re: Object:

 

"Specifies a closed polyline, ellipse, spline, region, or circle to convert into a viewport."

[ReMark]

skipso: Nice backup. It always help to have confirmation. I'm just a little quicker because I've been up since 4 a.m. and have had three cups of coffee. Fingers...don't fail me now!

[skipsophrenic]

:lol: LOL

[Guest]

In additon to that method, you can use the polygon viewport to create a cirle viewport.

 

The Polygonal viewport has an option for creating an arc as one of the boudaries. Just make two sides an arc and you get the same thing. Although the other way may be better if you ever need to resize the circular viewport.

 

From the command line...

 

Command: MVIEW

Specify corner of viewport or

[ON/OFF/Fit/Shadeplot/Lock/Object/Polygonal/Restore/LAyer/2/3/4] : P

Specify start point:

Specify next point or [Arc/Length/Undo]: A

[rkent]

I Know About Polygonal Viewports

But Can A Viwport Boundary Be Circle?

 

Also, if you already have a rectangular viewport you can draw a circle and then use the clip existing viewport option.

[ReMark]

So many ways...so few viewports.

[MaxwellEdison]

Thats the best and worst thing about AutoCAD. 17 ways to do just about anything. The hard part is finding the 18th way, which just happens to be the one that fits your needs best.