greenmeadow

As I said in my post i made the cropped view port at a larger scale than the original but they are on "sheet layer" which are incompatible with regular layers that compose a drawing.( one problem here is tha VW has changed the definition of a sheet) These viewports are on a sheet layer and are uneditable and a window says they can not be pasted to a layer. On this "sheet layer" all layers that make up these viewports are grayed so nothing I see on the viewport can be selected for editings and sheet layers don't have any scale. So how can the viewports be used with the actual working drawings for the project when such drawings are traditional composed of a "view"s of a real layer. MJM

I was told by the VW salesman that I could make viewports of plans to create details like other CAD programs. That is, create plan details at a larger scale to show more info that would be unreadable at the parent 1/4" plan scale. I have figured out the viewport part but since viewports are not on a "design layer" and cannot be placed on one, how do you ever show them on your actual working drawings sheets which in VW 12 are called "views" . Sheet layers have a default scale of 1-1 and can't be changed and can't contain other layers so i can't use them for drafting either. Are viewports only for non working drawing purposes? How do people make details in VW12?

I'm having a hell of a time learning VW 12. I keep running into bugs that stop me cold. This time its the hatches from previous versions of VW that show up in pieces. i can't throw away years of VW CAD work. How can i cut and paste old vw details into VW12 and retain there funtionality and scale?

I have been on the phone for hours with HP because my new HP cp1700 will not print a Vector Works sheet without a 2" wide, vertical, no printing band, 3.5" left from the right margin on a 11x17 ( landscape formated ) sheet . They say it is a Vector works problem, however, I print regularly print to a HP 1120C with networked HP jetdirect 300x and Stylescript desktop printer. I run Vector works 8.5.2 on MAC G3's and G4. I do not have access privileges for the printing dicussion board. Are their any fixes for this? Who's problem is it?