It would be great if when placing a viewport on top of another viewport it would automatically mask out the viewport in the background (or at least have an option for background mask). From what I gather this can be done with wipeout and viewport clipping, etc. but it is somewhat of a pain. Also, it would be nice to have shapes (circle) as viewport options as well.
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Because you put multiple ideas in a single post, I'm going to provide a solution to one of those ideas. If you still want the other ideas, make them into seperate posts so they can be better tracked.
For the viewport, you can make a viewport from a circle (using Civil 3D 2016). In the MView command, there is an option for polygonal. Use two arcs to set the circle.
Cheers,
Peter Funk
Sr Product Manager
Civil 3D
Autodesk, Inc.
Circular viewport:
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
Also. Draw outer polygon for Viewport. Draw Circle or other polygon for inner hole (wipeout) inside the first polygon. Convert both entities to Regions. Subtract inner reigon from outer region. Create Viewport from resulting Region. You have your hole.
Still would be good to have this automated.
Allen Jessup
CAD Manager - Designer
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Let's not try to ignore the elephant in the room ...Viewport background mask property is desperately needed.
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