Viewport Scale

The drawing sheet is at full scale, the drawings in model space have been produced at full scale. The scale of the viewport now determines the finalTo print the drawing, click onto A3 Landscape at the bottom left of the editor then go to File | Print.d scale.

After the scale of the viewports is adjusted, the contents of the viewport may fall outside the boundary. This is not important at this stage. The viewport borders will be adjusted in a future task.

Worked Example

Left click onto the Plan viewport, then right click and select the Properties Sheet.

From the Viewport page, enable theFixed Scale, then create a scale of 1:100, shown below.

Setting the viewport scale creates a ‘virtual scale’ of the objects

As can be observed, the contents of the viewport are not fully contained within the frame of the viewport. Do not adjust this at this stage.

Continue this task, creating a viewport scale of 1:100 for the Front and Left Elevation drawings.

Make the scale of the viewport for the Section drawing 1:20

The result should be similar to the illustration below.

Different scale created for each viewport

Viewport Borders

The border of the viewport is used to stretch or shrink the viewport to accommodate the scaled view within the viewport. The Select tool is used to select the view and the stretch or resize handles can be used to create the correctly size viewport. All objects must be visible within the viewport border.

The viewport border can be used to access the properties of the contents of the view, for example to adjust the scale or switch of layers.

The viewport border is a temporary ‘frame’ for the viewport and is usually switched off prior toTo print the drawing, click onto A3 Landscape at the bottom left of the editor then go to File | Print.ng.

Worked Example

Select the Plan viewport, then use the selector shell resize handles to stretch the viewport to accommodate its contents completely, shown right.

In the illustration below, the Plan viewport is slightly overlapping the Front Elevation Viewport. This is perfectly acceptable.

Viewport borders adjusted. Overlapping of borders is acceptable.

Select then resize if necessary the remaining viewports so that all views are contained fully within the viewport borders, shown below.

Removing the Viewport Borders

When the contents of the views are fully contained within the viewport borders, the boundary edges of the borders can be removed.

Select the Section viewport, then right click and select the Properties Sheet.

From the Viewport page, uncheck the Visible Box option to remove the viewport border. 

Repeat this for all the views on this page so the result is similar to the illustration below.

Viewport borders removed

Update Viewport Boundary

View | Viewports| Update Viewport Boundary

A 2D closed entity can be used as a new viewport boundary when the existing boundary of a viewport is either the wrong shape or occupies too much drawing space.

The illustration below shows a viewport inserted into the Paper layout. The elliptical shape was drawn using the circle tool and reshaped using the select tool. The elliptical shape will now define the new viewport border.

Select View | Viewport | Update Viewport Boundary and select the existing viewport, shown by point 1 below. At the prompt > Click on the boundary object, select the object shown by point 2 below. The result is shown below right.

Creating a new viewport boundary

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Note

There is no problem with viewport borders overlapping if necessary.

Viewport borders can be switched back on at any stage.