Do you...

[wannabe]

Lock your viewports?

 

I find it annoying that whenever I start faffing around with someone elses drawings, I zoom out and the whole model is moving even though I am in paper space.

 

Please, tell me, why do you not lock viewports?

[User]

+1

 

I always keep'em locked.

Unlocked vp's = profanity in the office.

[Dipali]

I also find it very annoying when people don't lock their viewports:x

[User]

Now I suppose we have to find somebody that will tell us why they are unlocked.......

 

I don't see a reasonable purpose for leaving them unlocked. Perhaps someone could explain.

[merdrignac]

Forgetfulness:oops:

[LifeoRiley0]

We always leave them unlocked. We sometimes make small changes while in paperspace, mostly just forgetfulness as merdrignac said.

[skipsophrenic]

+1

 

I always keep'em locked.

Unlocked vp's = profanity in the office.

 

agreed, it does my head in when they're not locked!!!

[Guest]

I always lock my viewports. I screw up the drawings if I dont, because I pan & zoom with the mouse wheel all of the time.

 

I used to have an employee that did not lock them, and it really irriteted me, when I had to make changes. I never did ask him why he drew like that, but if it makes him draw faster, I really don't care.

[ReMark]

Locked. Always locked. Unlocked VPs just cause headaches and I have enough of those already.

[MaxwellEdison]

I always lock my viewports. I screw up the drawings if I dont, because I pan & zoom with the mouse wheel all of the time.

 

I used to have an employee that did not lock them, and it really irriteted me, when I had to make changes. I never did ask him why he drew like that, but if it makes him draw faster, I really don't care.

 

That is a truly enlightened world view. I salute you!

[rkent]

Always locked, but I always check to make sure before doing and work on a drawing I just opened. Kind of like assuming a gun in unloaded, but you check anyway. So I guess I am putting the burden back on you as I think everyone should check first. Once in a layout a quick glance at the vpscale box will tell you if it is locked or not, since the box will be grayed out when locked.

[User]

Always locked, but I always check to make sure before doing and work on a drawing I just opened. Kind of like assuming a gun in unloaded, but you check anyway. So I guess I am putting the burden back on you as I think everyone should check first. Once in a layout a quick glance at the vpscale box will tell you if it is locked or not, since the box will be grayed out when locked.

 

 

Great analogy with the "asume the gun is unloaded."

Also a very different perspective, than I was looking at it from.

I still don't like un-locked vp's, but now I think I may blame myself for screwing up a drawing because of it. Should have unloaded that viewport!

[wannabe]

I failt to agree with the gun un-loaded analogy - nothing personal, my friend.

 

Once you set your viepwort up to be scaled and correctly centred you lock it.

 

Why the hell would it be unlocked!!!

[dtkell]

Locked.

But always store a named view of the viewport so if someone does unlock and mess with the zoom factor, it can be retrieved.

[rkent]

Why the hell would it be unlocked!!!

 

Indeed. And yet it happens.

[tzframpton]

We never lock our viewports here. We are just that good.

 

[wannabe]

We never lock our viewports here. We are just that good.

 

 

So when you want to move from one model view to the next you like switching between paper and model space?

 

Sounds really good.

[tzframpton]

So when you want to move from one model view to the next you like switching between paper and model space?

 

Sounds really good.

Well 1st of all, we house XREFs into one main "Plotting" DWG File. So there's never a need to actually move to Model space when we're dealing with Viewports because there's no editing involved via Modelspace. If we had different company wide standards where each DWG file was a "Plan Sheet" then yes, Locking of Viewports would become a new quality control.

 

And the "we are just that good" thing was simply a joke.

[EMS_0525]

i always lock vp's.... but some dont even know how to, or that it can be done. ignorace