Copying viewports between layouts

[hbosscher]

When I cut and paste a viewport from one layout to the other the layers that were frozen in that viewport become thawed. Is there any way of copying the viewport over so that those layers that are frozen in that viewport only remain that way ?
Thanks
Henry Bosscher

[Anonymous]

I could never get it to work either.

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[gouveianuno]

Hi, Have you ever solved this issue? I'm using LT2005 and I have the same problem.

Thanks

[hwalker]

Unfortunately there is no workaround. You have to refreeze your layers.

You are in effect creating a new viewport.

[Bob_Zurunkle]

There used to be a way in full AutoCAD when they had that issue, but apparently it got fixed several releases back. The workaround was to make the desired viewport a block. Then you could copy and paste it on another layout in the same drawing and it would retain the layer settings. Not sure if that will work for your situation, but it's worth a shot!

[jeh_uk1]

You could either;

• create a new layer state in the original viewport, and then restore it in the new vieport (although I can't remember if this works with any viewport overides thoough),
• or create a layout by copying the layout with the orriginal viewport.

[nestly2]

Yep, make the viewport into a block, copy it to the new layout, then explode.

[radiohaktive]

Like jeh_uk1 said, layer states are the best way of doing this. The other ways are workarounds, whereas a layer state can be counted on and will work much more consistently than the other. Good workaround on the vp block though, it does work. 

[jeh_uk1]

I've just tried Nestly's suggestion of creating a block, which seems like a good workaround, but I've noticed that it doesn't copy across any viewport overides that may be set up.