Viewports moved when locked

Anonymous · ‎06-25-2015

Just again had locked viewports reset to 0,0. I've seen that it might be related to dynamic north arrows, does anyone know if this is the case. I have had them move on a number of drawings now and I do use the dynamic arrows.

thank you,

Tom Oines

Civil 3d 2014

mconway · ‎06-25-2015

Make sure VISRETAIN is Set to 1 and USCFOLLOW to 0 (zero)

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Anonymous · ‎08-05-2016

Just had a file, with five sheet tabs, each with one locked VPort.

All worked well.

Now, only one VPort is in the correct location - all others centered on 0,0.

VisRetain and UCSFollow okay...kind of a pain to reset.

Any new thoughts?

k_niedzielski · ‎10-24-2016

I am having the exact same issue. The setting "VISERETAIN" is set to 1 and the setting "UCSFOLLOW" is set to 0. Viewports in other layouts seem to reset to 0,0 after rotating the view in the current layout. I would really like to find a solution to this. Anyone have any ideas?

igi_pop · ‎10-24-2016

Ucsfollow is a per-viewport setting as far as i remember..had that issue ages ago. Especialy painfull if you copy the viewport 10 times ant THEN learn that 🙂
So, for each viewport, double click inside it to enter into model, then UCSFOLLOW - 0, set it up the way you want it and ext to paper space.
Rinse and repeat
Wax on wax off so to say 🙂

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k_niedzielski · ‎10-24-2016

I have checked all of my viewports and every single one has UCSFOLLOW set to 0. Any other ideas?

igi_pop · ‎10-25-2016

@k_niedzielski wrote:
I have checked all of my viewports and every single one has UCSFOLLOW set to 0. Any other ideas?

UC ↵

Settings -> save UCS with viewport?

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Joe-Bouza · ‎10-25-2016

Is it written somewhere? Maybe. Does it happen in 2014 ? Yes with dyno arrows; especially if the sheets were made with PP tool.

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k_niedzielski · ‎10-25-2016

My UCS is set to world in all of the layouts. I normally don't change the UCS. I am currently using Civil 3D 2016 and use the "Layout Elements" tools in the "Layout Tools" ribbon. So far it seems that the viewports reset to 0 after I copy a layout multiple times and rotate the view in each copy.

tswartzfager · ‎06-12-2018

Sorry to open such an old wound, but was this ever resolved? This is the first time I've ever seen this happen, but I am also setting up sheets with the view frame group tool (plan/profile) with a dynamic(ish) arrow.

Timothy Swartzfager
CAD Monkey Extraordinaire
Civil 3D 2020

mconway · ‎06-12-2018

We ended up exploding the North Arrows this disconnected them but the VPs acted properly

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tswartzfager · ‎06-13-2018

I hereby and forthwith ban the use of all dynamic arrows!

Timothy Swartzfager
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k_niedzielski · ‎06-13-2018

I would like to second that motion! It is clear they are too dangerous and cannot be trusted!

mconway · ‎06-13-2018

DILLY DILLY!

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Joe-Bouza · ‎06-13-2018

My Mantra for years

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Anonymous · ‎06-14-2018

Hello all,

one last thought . . . .

viewports that are locked, with different scales in one drawing can cause the same problem.

saw this in 2014 and 2016. and do not care to findout about 2018.

good luck

nonbeard13

jmayo-EE · ‎04-16-2021

Still in the product.

John Mayo

nostupidquestions · ‎07-23-2021

yep. dealing with it now.

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arodriguezDQBHW · ‎05-06-2022

Still not fixed in 2023 version. Funny thing is that the preview shows the viewport correctly but switching to it resets it to 0,0. Thanks autocad I have to probably redo 50 P and Ps. Mine was triggered after a purge all command for what is worth.

millermccoy · ‎02-01-2023

My .dwg with 20 Tabs with one vport each containing dynamic north arrows all reset...but all the vports with no dynamic norths were OK.

Is there a way to save each vport location so I can just reset without having to pan by hand?

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