Hello all.
I have a question I am hoping someone can help with. For sometime I have been doing what feels like a fudge when it comes to viewports, and I want to know if there is a better way.
In short, I want to lock the viewport in place, and have its crop correspond with that position.
Often times, I will have a sheet set up with a viewport (say of a site plan) and then my key and notes on the annotation layer. I will want to duplicate this sheet several times, (maintaining the notes, viewport size, and annotations) but will want to move the viewport to focus on another part of the site.
With my current method, I go to amend crop and focus it on the new area for the new sheet, however, this means I then have to then move the viewport to line up with my sheet, and then amend my annotations to align with their correct position (as they move with the crop shift) it can be quite time consuming for something simple.
In autocad, you can set up your viewport location on the page, and then pan around within that crop to highlight the area of the drawing you want. Does Vectorworks have this function?
i noticed this thread
which hints at 'translated view' as being what I want to use. However, either I cant get it to work properly, or its not for use on 2d drawings (like plans) I get the message "camera cannot be used on sheet layer"
Any thoughts? no vids or other threads on this topic it seems.
Rex