Viewport Frame is not visible

[jim3thornton]

Viewport Frame is not visible

all layers are on and unfrozen.

We can click within the Vport, but can not select the window.

I have included the drawing.

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

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[jim3thornton]

I overlooked the defpoints being frozen at the vport ...

THANK YOU!

[Anonymous]

I have a similar issue.  Defpoints layer is not frozen.  The attached drawing has 6 viewports -- 3 are visible, 3 are not.

All layers thawed, unlocked, color=white, thickness not 0.  Audit fixes 10 items each time it is run.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Defpoints layer is not frozen

Independent of frozen or not, the layer "Defpoints" is an AutoCAD internal layer and should never be used for your objects (in your drawing the layer "Defpoints" was the current layer, that's not how you should work or with other words one of the worst things you can do in AutoCAD).

Also you  have overwritten all VP-settings, also for your paperspace ... that does not make really sense.

In case you have created objects while layer "Defpoints" was active you might see some surprising situations ... did you create the viewports with this layer as active layer?

- alfred -

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

if you have VBA-Enabler installed you can make them visible using that code:

Public Sub MakeEntVisible()
   Dim tEnt As AcadEntity
   For Each tEnt In ThisDrawing.Layouts("SHT2").Block
      If Not tEnt.Visible Then tEnt.Visible = True
   Next
End Sub

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

"did you create the viewports with this layer as active layer?"

The drawing done by our customer.  Do not know their methods. 

Thanks for the VBA routine.

[Anonymous]

Were you ever able to fix your problem? I had the same issue and discovered that my viewports in layouts were not showing because I had the defpoints layer frozen in my model tab.

[pendean]

Thaw and turn on all of your layers: that's the fix. You cannot see content on a frozen/off layer.

[mc5fan]

I have drawings that have several viewports, none have a frame. All layers are thawed, unlocked and visible but I cannot do anything at all with any of the viewport contents. I have looked at many viewport problems posted and cannot find anything to assist me. I have attached an example. Any suggestions?

[CamperUnhappy]

@mc5fan did you ever get this sorted out?  I'm struggling with this issue right now on a clients drawing that they sent me.  I can't edit anything on the drawings.  Nothing shows up in modelspace either.  All layers are thawed and unlocked.  I can't even delete the **** viewports.

[mc5fan]

No. I have no idea what the hell is going on here. I believe that the drawing was created in Inventor. Maybe that is part of the problem. I have no idea.

[doyle.bush]

After checking Defpoints, try AM_Views, that's where I found mine.

[mc5fan]

It is a bastardized Inventor conversion. Our Mechanical leader called it before I even opened it. We could not access it nop matter what we tried.

[john.h]

Your maximum number of allowed viewports needs to be reset.

Type MAXACTVP and change the number to higher than the number of viewports you want to show.

[james_salter]

OPTION 1

Select All

type FILTER in command line and hit ENTER

Choose "Viewport" from "Select Filter" dropdown list and then click "Add to List" button

Click on "Apply" button

Unselect the viewports you CAN see, leaving only the one(s) whose border(s) you can't see, selected. 

Hit your delete key to delete it (them).

Create new viewport (viewports) to your liking.

OPTION 2

1. With the invisible viewport selected, start the VPCLIP command and type "P" to draw a polygonal viewport over location of the invisible one. 
2. Start the VPCLIP command again, select the viewport created, and use the Delete option. The invisible viewport will now be visible.   

From <https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Making-an-invisibl...>