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Scaling in Paperspace with Viewport

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:47:40 GMT

Hello all,

I've been tasked with creating an orthographic drawing of a pipe rack. I have the viewport scale set at 1/8"=1'-0".

I've worked with viewports only a few times, so forgive my ignorance. Double-clicking in the viewport allows me to zoom in and out of the viewport, to position the view accordingly. How do I know the view/zoom I decide on is the correct/accurate size for the viewport window? I will have 3 viewports on one page, given the rack is about 700' long

Hope that made sense.

Thanks

Re: Scaling in Paperspace with Viewport

maratovich — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:31:31 GMT

Maybe it will help you:

Re: Scaling in Paperspace with Viewport

Ed__Jobe — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:18:23 GMT

Each time you zoom, you change the viewport scale. You can only pan and not change the scale. A convenient way to create a viewport of a zoomed area is to use the new MVIEW command in 2018.1 or higher. Its on the context sensitive Layout tab, called Insert View. Click on the icon and then choose New and it will take you to modelspace where you choose a window to display. It will then take you back to paperspace to place a viewport scaled to the nearest standard scale.

Re: Scaling in Paperspace with Viewport

beyoungjr — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 21:40:47 GMT

A 700' long pipe rack sounds pretty amazing. Is this a rack made from pipe or a rack made for pipe?

It sounds like you recognize your Viewports, but just to be sure I'm tracking that you are playing with Viewports in a Layout (Paper Space)?

A quick trick I show my students is to double-click in the Viewport, making it active, then double-click the mouse wheel or use Zoom->Extents. If there are more objects than you want to target for zooming then simply pre-select the target objects and type "Z" enter "O" for Zoom->Objects. This will center your objects in the Viewport. You can then select the Viewport scale from the drop-down list.

Then de-activate your Viewport , of course, so you do not inadvertently change the zoom scale.

The resulting display may end up bigger or smaller than you like but it will be centered and to scale. If it doesn't fit properly then your Viewport and/or Layout is an incorrect size.

Hope this helps,

Blaine

Re: Scaling in Paperspace with Viewport

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 21:34:57 GMT

Blaine,

Thanks for your help. I didn't realize that I can choose which scale I want my Viewport to be in, highlighting the viewport then selecting the scale at the bottom toolbar near the viewport lock button. That's what I needed, I guess I didn't know what question to ask.