Model drawing showing up automatically in layouts without viewports

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am new to AutoCADLT for Mac and hoping someone can assist me please.

I have drawn a plan in model space. When I select a layout the drawing is already on the layout space, without using a viewport for it to appear there.

I have tried inserting a fresh layout from the layout templates instead of the ones that come already loaded in the drawing and have the same problem - the model drawing appears automatically within the layout without me having made a viewport.

Any idea why this is happening?

I want my layouts to be blank until I add viewports so I have control over where the drawing is appearing within the layout.

Thanks very much!

[pendean]

Double-click this magical model in your layout: does PROPERTIES come up or are you suddenly inside a viewport?
Thaw and turn on all layers in your file: do you now see your previously hidden viewport outline?

[rkmcswain]

@Anonymous  wrote:

I want my layouts to be blank until I add viewports so I have control over where the drawing is appearing within the layout.

For the current drawing, while in the layout, turn on, thaw, and unlock all layers, select all and delete.

For future drawings, create a template with a blank layout and use this template.

[Anonymous]

Hi pendean,

Thanks so much for your reply.

When I double click on the plan in the layout page the rectangular
perimeter around the drawing thickens and I am able to move the model
around within the activated viewport.

I have unthawed any layers within the model.

Hopefully I have followed your instructions correctly, and I am most
grateful for your reply, but my problem is not solved.

All I want is to have a drawing in model space and for content to only
appear within the layouts once viewports are drawn within the layouts. I am
following a tutorial and the tutor has a model in model space and is
explaining how to place viewports within the layout and unfortunately I
cannot follow any further as my model is appearing automatically within the
layout. The tutor's layout is blank until he draws the viewports.

Hope you have some more ideas! Thanks very much.

[Anonymous]

Hi,


Thanks for your reply.

I deleted the layers within the layout as you suggested but the effect was
these layers are deleted from model space as well so I end up with no
drawing.

Is this what you anticipated? (I had made a backup copy s no harm done).

Thanks very much.

[pendean]

It is quite simple: You have a viewport in place in the layouts you are importing, that is why you see the model in your layout. If you do not want that viewport, you need to go into your layouts source file and delete them all first then save your source file.

When creating new layouts from scratch, AutoCAD also offers to create a viewport as well, but that tends to be out of scale and rather small too.

AutoCAD will not automagicaly strip viewports away from predefined layouts that have them.

HTH

[rkmcswain]

@Anonymous  wrote:
I deleted the layers within the layout as you suggested but the effect was these layers are deleted from model space as well so I end up with no drawing.

You were in model space then. I was talking about being in paper space (the layout space). Take a look at this for more details.

[maxim_k]

Hi Joy,

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@Anonymous wrote:

....When I select a layout the drawing is already on the layout space, without using a viewport for it to appear there.

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Any idea why this is happening?

I want my layouts to be blank until I add viewports so I have control over where the drawing is appearing within the layout.

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That is because of the default settings in AutoCAD Preferences:

Uncheck this option and AutoCAD would't create viewport automatically in new Layout.

You can see your Model space in newly created Layout, because AutoCAD creates viewport in new layout. You can safely delete (ERASE) this viewport and start to create your own viewports.

[BillHVLDN]

I had this same problem, it was a viewport that was created on a layer I had turned off (why someone used that layer to create a viewport makes no sense to me) anyway, once I turned on all the layers, the viewport became visible and I was able to delete it.  Several of the posts above touched have valid points but never simply said what the issue was...