view port

[mikec]

How come sometimes after creating viewports with the red border after working on my drawing all of a sudden if I double click in one of my red viewports a black border comes up surrounding all my viewports and makes then entire back ground of the whole page one big viewport? I have attached an example.

[pendean]

You are entering the viewport: as in you are inside it, VPMAX command. Double-clicking on a viewport boundary does that. That's how it's done.

What are you otherwise trying to accomplish with double-clicking if not to enter it?

[sthompson1021]

It sounds like you are double clicking on the VP border which starts the VPMAX command.

[mikec]

I have other viewports that I want to modify but when I try to I get the big balck border around everything and instead of editing an individual viewport it access the background.

[mikec]

ok so I see a VPMAX tab at the bottom, how do I get out of that and back to model and paper space?

[sthompson1021]

type PS at the command line

[mikec]

It's like my drawing border became one big viewport

[pendean]

VPMIN command or click on that icon that changed too.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

As designed to do.

Use CTRL+R to jump between open viewports without maximizing them or trying to click on them when they overlap (if I understood your issue).

[sthompson1021 · Accepted solution]

You actually have three viewports in the layout. The 2 red ones and then the outer solid white line is one too. Click on that and erase it and everything should work ok.

[mikec]

I just figured out that to when I put in a  title block I can just draw a rectangle around my page to creat my own border,.

Thanks for the help. I worked out well

I will continue to use your suggestions.