Pamela dHKa

Either that or just use a white line.

I am new to viewports and had the same text dropping problem while using rectangluar cropping (although I haven't tried it with any other shape). I upgraded from 11.0.0 to 11.0.1 and everything was fixed! Maybe downgrading back to 11.0.1 from 11.5 might help? (I'm using OS 10.3.9)

HA! The 11.0.1 update fixed it! I didn't even realize I was running 11.0.0. I guess the last time I did a reinstall on my machine I forgot to update it. Phew!

The rasterizing worked to bring up the text, but unfortunately it's not dropping hatch lines It's actually a title drawing label symbol (the kind where you fill out the info for title, scale, bubble style etc...) and all three of them are set to the same parameters, however only one of them will show up when printing. The font is arial with size 8 and 10 being used. The text in the drawings themselves are just fine (ie. room names etc...) which is strange. It's just the darn title block and drawing title symbols. I'll try updating. So I take it this isn't a bug that anyone else has?? Is there a special way to deal with text in general when using viewports? (ie. do the title blocks IN the layout as opposed to viewporting them? Don't group text? use a certain class?....??)

I have managed to layout a drawing with several viewports which include drawings, titles for the drawings as well as a title block. Everything looks good in Vectorworks however, when I view the pdf I created text goes missing?? And it is only happening with the viewport layout. It is fine if I print straight from the drawing. For some reason or another only one of three of the titles are showing up with text and there is no text in the title block either. Is this a glitch? a setting? Anyone run into this?

excellent. Thank YOU!

Thanks for the quick response. I should have been more clear as far as the note I wrote for question #1. I did try the method you suggested however when you change the scale for the odd layer after you paste it, it doesn't paste in the exact same spot. (read the astericks note) Any way to make sure it does stack back in the same spot after the scale change?

I've been searching for an hour regarding my questions and I haven't found them answered so please forgive me if this question has been asked before: Our office wants to use Viewports and I've got three issues I can't seem to get worked out in my trial run: Drawing: 1. Our floor plans are drawn at 1:50 and most of the layers used to make up the floor plan drawing are in the same scale, however, there are a few symbol elements that are on a layer that is 1:100. It all works fine in the drawing, but as soon as I create a viewport of the drawing that naughty 1:100 layer gets bumped up to 1:50 screwing the whole drawing up. Do all of the layers/elements in a viewport have to be the same scale for it to translate propertly to a viewport? If not, then what is the workaround? *** Exporting as dwg 2. Even though I have set up the viewports to have no outline they still show up in the dwg version of the drawing even though they are not showing up in my Sheet Layout. How can I make sure these outlines don't show up in the dwg file? 3. When exporting as dwg I am not able to specify "Layers" at the "Export As DXF Layers:" conversion setting. Both Layers and Classes are greyed out. This is troublesome because when the file is opened as a dwg the classes are all gone autmatically and get mixed together with the layers. How do I retain my classes and layers when exporting from a sheet? That's all for now. But I know I'll be back! ***What I have tried doing is just duplicating the same viewport, pasting it in place to sit right on top of the other viewport with only that naughty layer visible and changing the scale of THAT viewport back to it's 1:100. The problem I have found with this is that I get a shifting of the information...it doesn't stay where it should...and it's the structural grid so it HAS to be in the exact same position. This led me to the realization that a copy of the viewport polygon should be kept to keep track of where you take your viewports from exactly. Is this normal practice or is there another way to show where the viewports have been taken from exactly?