topic Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview in AutoCAD for Mac Forum

Viewport border not showing in print preview

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:40:40 GMT

I have two viewport layers, 1 layer is set to frozen to hide viewport borders and second layer has frozen unchecked and border visibility should be enabled. However the viewports on both layers show up in print preview with hidden borders. How can I fix this? Thanks.

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:42:18 GMT

I should note I tried checking vpfreeze and it is not switched on for either layer, defpoints vp freeze is not switched on either. vpclip doesn't solve the problem, regen didnt work. the viewport layer i want to show the border is set to print. nothing stands out as irregular in page setup manager or plot setup. tried making a new viewport on the same layer and still its border is not there in print preview. the border shows in paperspace there like it should but not when time to print..

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:17:05 GMT

it has something to do with the way my autocad templates are setup because when I start a new acadiso.dwg file and go to print preview, the viewport border doesn't show up there. How do I fix this setting?

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 01:25:05 GMT

anyone able to help me with this?

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

maxim_k — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 03:22:37 GMT

Hi,

Please verify that "Plot" property for the viewport layer is not disabled.

Maxim

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 03:33:24 GMT

Hi Maxim, plot is and was enabled for the layer and the issue is still persistent.

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

maxim_k — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 03:52:05 GMT

Attach your drawing here.

Maxim

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 04:18:10 GMT

here is the file attached

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

maxim_k — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 04:45:48 GMT

Please explain me again: do you want viewport borders to be printed or hidden?

Maxim

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

maxim_k — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 04:54:47 GMT

I attached two files with corresponding PDF:

- one pair is your files without modifications - viewport borders in it are printed as you see in PDF

- second pair (with index "1" added) is modified file with PDF created from it - there is no viewport borders in it because I set Plot property for the viewport layers to "Not to plot"

Maxim

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:06:15 GMT

thanks for looking into this for me. where would I find this setting where the layers are set to not plot?

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

maxim_k — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:21:15 GMT

In the Layers palette :
Expand layers list, than find viewport layers in the drawing I modified - look to the right of the layer name - you will see the icon with crossed printer.

Maxim

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:42:50 GMT

it doesn't show that as being checked off on mine, I attached a picture here.

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:46:47 GMT

even with you're edited dwg version, the borders are hidden or not visible in print preview. I guess it's an issue with my macbook or the autocad for mac 2015 software..

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

maxim_k — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:02:00 GMT

In my edited dog version the viewport borders hold be visible.
In your original drawing viewport borders are visible on my side.
You have not answered my question:
what do you want - borders to be visible or not?

Maxim

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:54:06 GMT

I wanted some of my viewports visible borders visible and some of the viewport borders not visible. I created two viewport layers, one set to frozen to hide the borders, the other set to thawed to print the borders. However my issue was that all viewport borders were not visible in print preview on my AutoCAD for Mac 2015 program. So I tried to see what the issue was by following different suggestions I found by searching on Google but none of them worked. I opened my file at the college on a PC using AutoCAD 2016 and everything was displaying as it should on print preview with the proper viewport borders visible and not visible. So I guess is is an issue with my version of AutoCAD for Mac 2015 on my macbook. Even when I tried creating a new drawing and testing to see if the print preview would display the borders when the layer was thawed it was still showing the viewport borders as not visible. Thanks again for your help and replies!

Re: Viewport border not showing in print preview

maxim_k — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 18:33:16 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
.....Even when I tried creating a new drawing and testing to see if the print preview would display the borders when the layer was thawed it was still showing the viewport borders as not visible......

Can you attach here an example of such drawing?

Maxim