Delete, Scale Viewports

[Anonymous]

Create a rectangle.

Using MVIEW/OBJECT command, select rectangle

This rectangle gets converted to VIEWPORT

If by mistake, only the rectangle, Not Viewport, gets selected & deleted, Viewport remains over there.

You can double click in it and make changes.

But you can not select it to scale or delete it.

How to delete or scale it?

[Kent1Cooper]

[How do you delete the rectangle but not the Viewport?  I've tried setting up the situation you describe, but I haven't found any way to Erase just the Polyline -- any approach I take removes the Viewport along with it, even when it says only one object is selected and I know that's the Polyline.]

[cadffm]

Use used VPCLIP (without your knowledge), use this command again.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-D5FD4D1A-5785-4A8E-B0D1-D12079C0A4FF

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Kindly see the attached image.

If you click on the rectangle, selection window pops out, where, if you select polyline, only polyline is selected.

After deleting it, only viewport remains without border.

In image you can see polyline selected and at the top, polyline deleted viewport.

[Anonymous]

After selecting the polyline, I used Delete button, not Erase command

[Anonymous]

After selecting the polyline, I used Delete button, not Erase command

[Patchy]

Back in version 2007 it was a glitch, the viewport sometimes got separated from the polyline.

Now it happens when you use C3d as one posted here, and nobody can fix it.

[cadffm]

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@cadffm  schrieb:
Use used VPCLIP (without your knowledge), use this command again.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-D5FD4D1A-5785-4A8E-B0D1-D12079C0A4FF

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[Patchy · Accepted solution]

Try this:

[Anonymous]

Certainly, I did not use VPCLIP command.

I would request you to follow the following set of command.

Create a rectangle in Paper space

Use MVIEW/OBJECT to create VIEWPORT.

Then first select rectangle with PICKFIRST set to 1.

From the selection window, select polyline.

Use Delete button to erase polyline.

You will see VIEWPORT still there, you can double click and enter into it.

But you cannot select it to delete, scale.....

Any solution?

[Anonymous]

Thank You, This is working

[cadffm]

Yes i know this,

_Mview or _-vports , option Object

But this is nothing else like VPCLIP!

And you can use VPCLIPm Option DELETE to delete the Clip from your Viewport.

Please test it

VPCLIP -> Option delete

Deletes the clipping boundary of a selected viewport. This option is available only if the selected viewport has already been clipped. If you clip a viewport that has been previously clipped, the original clipping boundary is deleted, and the new clipping boundary is applied.

Or upload a sample if this is not what you are searching for.

[cadffm]

Aaaaahhhh okokok. embarrassing - And Kudos for Patchy

I apologize, I had probably missed the most important step.
Now I can understand it, thanks.

I would have solved it in the simple test case also with VPCLIP,
this accepts the object selection "Last", so I have created a new clip and was able to delete the VP then.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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If you click on the rectangle, selection window pops out, where, if you select polyline, only polyline is selected.

After deleting it, only viewport remains without border. .....

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Maybe it doesn't matter any more if you've worked it out, but that's exactly what I did first, trying both the Delete key and the Erase command, and with the Properties palette showing only the Polyline as selected object.  I also tried some other approaches, such as in an Erase command, selecting both and then using the Remove option to take out of the selection the Last object, which I had previously confirmed was, in fact, the Viewport.  Under no circumstances would it remove the Polyline without also removing the Viewport.  I even tried saving the Viewport's entity name to a variable, (entdel)-ing both objects, and re-(entdel)-ing that variable, which brings a deleted thing back, but it also brought back the Polyline.  I would have to assume there's a version-related difference involved, as someone has already suggested.

[cadffm]

The Autodesk Icon from screenshot looks like old Versions ~2013

I was able to create the problem in 2013. In 2017-2019 I could not do this, the viewport was always deleted.