Remove Transparency from Viewport

[office]

I don't know why I'm having so many issues with 2020LT but it seems a lot of things are not as easy as they used to be, not sure if its because none of my old setting moved over or what...

I'm in paperspace, I added "viewport1", simple. I add viewport2. For some reason I can see everything under that in viewport1. I don't want to see anything behind viewport2.

Why am I having so many problems trying to achieve this simple task?

[pendean]

What previous version of AutoCAD did you use where paperspace VIEWPORTS where not see-through? That's never been a feature. Sorry.

Create a viewport (or viewports) that has (have) a hole in it for your VP2 to slide over perhaps: MVIEW command will let you select a closed PLINE or a REGION (which lets you create a hole as part of the object) and convert it into a viewport.

[office]

Must have been a different program or I've completely forgotten how to use this one. I don't remember having to come up with a go-around to stack viewports before. Must have done it at some point if that's the case. Maybe it was a dream that made me think something so easy would be so simple... sorry to bother.

[RobDraw]

Why don't you ask how people are accomplishing this since it's never worked the way that you describe it?

[pendean]

If you want to share a file, I will gladly show you a method using a REGION as a viewport in a layout.

[FelipeMolon]

I posted a workaround in Civil 3d forums, so I will copy it here:

Hey!

Sorry to bring this thread back, but I found an interesting solution that doesn't need any changes to the viewport.

What I did to work this thing around was draw a rectangle around everything I drew - in the model tab, of course - and use a solid hatch on it. Then, I use the "hatchtoback" command to make it stay behind the drawing. Now, since there is a solid color behind everything, it will also show in the viewport, covering everything behind it.

As you can see in the images, the larger circle is a viewport that is displaying the same thing as what is behind it, but the lines do not overlap because of the hatch.

I hope it can be useful to someone.

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