Can't activate a viewport after creating it.

[Anonymous]

I have created a viewport in my layout. I make sure that I am in paperspace and I click on the boarder of the viewport. it turns blue and I get the square and down arrow in the center. I double click in the viewport and I go back to modelspace and can't change anything in the viewport.

I have tried it with multiple drawings and also with multiple viewports all the same.

I have just moved from 2016 to 2020. I assume that I am doing something incorrect, any help is appreciated.

[imadHabash]

Hi,

>> it turns blue and I get the square and down arrow in the center.

After you create a layout viewport, you can change its size and properties, and also scale and move it as needed.

>> I double click in the viewport and I go back to modelspace and can't change anything in the viewport.

Now you're inside active viewport . you may treat with locked viewport , Scale locking locks the scale that you set for the selected viewport. Once the scale is locked, you can continue to modify the geometry in the viewport without affecting the viewport scale. If you turn a viewport's scale locking on, most of the viewing commands will works normally . You can access this property from the Properties palette, the right-click menu when a layout viewport is selected, a button on the Layout Viewports tab on the ribbon, and a button on the status bar when one or more layout viewports are selected.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> I double click in the viewport and I go back to

>> modelspace and can't change anything

I have seen this multiple times (and it happened to me too) that I try to select something (inside a viewport) and then saw, that the objects I tried to select were in paperspace ... should not happen, but happened 😉

Also a good reason for being inside a viewport and can't select anything in modelspace could be that you have multiple viewports overlapping (with different zoom/scale), go to paperspace, use _QSELECT and see how many viewports you have in this layout.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

I have been so confused for so long. I finally figured it out.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I could not imagine it but, I infact had viewports within viewports. Once I found the viewport I didn't know was there and deleted it. All my woes went away.

[pendean]

Post your actual DWG file after 11-months of still struggling with this item by yourself, lets see what you have going on.