topic Re: Yet another Invisible viewport in AutoCAD Forum

Yet another Invisible viewport

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 18:46:49 GMT

I have viewports that are invisible. Literally, when I select them using qselect, run the "LIST" command, it shows the following:

Command: LIST
3 found

VIEWPORT Layer: "ST-ANNO-TITL"
Space: Paper space
Layout: ST-001
Invisible
Visual Style: 2D Wireframe
Handle = 34bc6
Status: On and Active
Scale relative to Paper space: 1.0000xp
Annotation Scale: 1:1
View lock is on
center point, X=-0'-6.51" Y= 0'-9.98" Z= 0'-0.00"
width 0'-11.69"
height 0'-5.80"

See how it says "invisible"? How do I make it visible again? I have gone through pages and pages of forums trying to figure this out and have come up with nothing. No amount of unlocking layers, thawing, turning on, changing color, selecting, etc. has worked.

The best I can come up with is to select them with qselect,delete them, and start over. This is obviously not ideal.

Thanks!

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

pendean — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:00:20 GMT

PROPERTIES command?
Post the DWG file.

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:04:43 GMT

Attaching the file (no xrefs or anything though, not etransmitted)

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

pendean — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:28:55 GMT

Which layout of the 14 in the file is it?

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:34:30 GMT

Sorry, layout PV-001. Thanks for taking a look. One of the four VPs is selectable, three are not.

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

pendean — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:41:50 GMT

there is no PV-001.

ST-001 looks like this

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:44:37 GMT

Whoops, ST-001 is correct.

Our office does Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic (PV) design, I do mostly PV.

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

pendean — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:03:00 GMT

Can you see the image I posted? There is only one viewport and as you can see, it is visible (I am outside of it).

If there is another, show me how to get into it and from where.

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:09:19 GMT

There are three other viewports. The most obvious one is where the Equipment Schedule is, in the upper left. There is a polyline around the viewport, but if you delete or move it you can see that there is a viewport with no frame. There is another one in the lower right where the north arrow is.

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:12:30 GMT

Did you try doing a quick select of the viewports, then LIST to show that they are invisible (like what I posted in the original)?

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

pendean — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:52:05 GMT

4-very messed up viewports way out there that you can simply delete and recreate instead of spending so much time trying to recover them

When I assign a scale to them they display content outside of their defined edges. I'd just discard them and move on myself.

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 21:31:31 GMT

i agree, deleting and recreating is the way to go.

I'm curious though, how did you even assign a scale to them?

Also, do you have an explanation for the "invisible" aspect that comes up when running LIST?

Thanks,

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

pendean — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:09:05 GMT

>>>...how did you even assign a scale to them?...<<<
PROPERTIES pallette, after I sorted objects by type (viewports in this case).

I don't get distracted or bogged down by what LIST reports: if the objects don't behave the way I want them to I delete and recreate. My clients don't pay me to spend my time bug-testing quirks in software programs, they just want their CAD files out and working well.

Re: Yet another Invisible viewport

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:28:23 GMT

Fair enough!