View Manager in Paperspace issue

[Anonymous]

All,

I am trying to create a layout view using the view manager in paperspace. Whenever i click on define window, it does not record any information no matter where i click. If i do the same task in model space, it accepts the window i select. I am currently using civil 3d 2013 with the latest updates. Is this an issue anyone else has been having. Please note i have never tried to do this in any other version, and may just be following the wrong steps.

[jggerth]

If I'm understanding you, all you need to do to create a viewport in a layout is is to simply create one using the MVIEW command.

Double click inside that to activate it, and then use the VIEW command to bring up the View Manager and restore the named modelspace view you want to see in the viewport.

Or am I misunderstanding you?

[GrantsPirate]

I am using 2014Mechanical and it works fine here.

[Anonymous]

My Goal is to populate the circled area.

[jggerth]

Ok,  fwiw -- when I try to follow your steps in 2011 c3d, I get the same null response.

rather seems like that's an idea that a developer had that never got implemented?    I'll poke at it tonite in 2014 and see what hapens there.

[GrantsPirate · Accepted solution]

In MS the view defined by the window option is shown in black and surrounded by dark gray.  This won't happen in PS but it is still recording the points picked, it just won't show on screen. 

Is that what you are seeing?  Or are you going through that and it doesn't actually keep the coordinates?

[Anonymous]

Ill bet you just nailed it. When it didt return to the dialog i assumed something went wrong, but in model space it makes you select enter to accept........

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone for helping me figure that out.