Viewport

[Anonymous]

I made a few drawings in Autodesk AutoCAD 2017 student version.

I need to put these in my paper space so I can plot them in the school's layout.

Problem: if i want to make a viewport, i can't find my drawings. Neither when i double click with my mouse weel in the viewport. Neither when i manually search for it in the viewport.

My layers are all 'on' so this can't be the problem. I only have white viewports now. Please help.

[jayhar]

Hi, Can you please upload cad file.

open layer, and check Plot Determines if layer is plottable or not for entire drawing

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Neither when i double click with my mouse weel in the viewport

What happens if you change to modelspace and make there a ZOOM EXTENTS (double click the mouse wheel)?

If then the content also seems to disappear it's just a sign for you have geometry objects far away from each other, and so a ZOOM EXTENTS makes these objects so small (on display) that you can't see them.

That can happen with missing XRefs (which are inserted at 0,0 while your geometry is at higher coordinates) or you have inserted something like a block at 0,0 or similar things. Looking to point 0,0 is always a good check.

You might also try <CTRL><A> ... that selects all objects and in case the number of objects is not too high you should see grip points even if the geometry is too small to be visible.

And yes, uploading the drawing will give us the option to show you the solution instead of just guessing.

- alfred -

[steven-g]

Is the viewpoort locked - unlock it, there should be a symbol of a padlock in the icons at the bottom right of your screen

With the viewport active, start the line command and type the coordinates 0,0 as the starting point and draw a line to the center of the screen, now go back to model space and see where that line is in realation to your drawing. It might show up that there are problems in the drawing.

In model space if you use the mouse double click what happens, if everything vanishes then that's a problem that can be sorted out (undo) but shows a possible solution.

And the simplest last how did you create the viewport, and are you sure it is the viewport that is selected.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your answer, I searched for this in my layer properties, didn't find what you told me bit i did find 'new vp freeze'. So this was off with all these layers. This means it doesn't show in viewports?
Anyway it works now, thank you!

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> 'new vp freeze'. So this was off with all these layers. This means it doesn't show in viewports?

VP-Freeze .... freeze the layer in that viewport, you can turn that on and off and you'll see the change immediately

New VP Freeze ... is only a preset: whenever you create new viewports these layers will automatically be set to "VP-Freeze = active"

- alfred -