Getting a thick green rectangle on design layers when I navigate to layer from a sheet layer, same shape as the viewport crop

[grant_PD]

1st image: on a sheet layer

2nd image, design layer that I navigated through to from the viewport

 

3rd image, back at the viewport

 

WHAT ARE THESE RECTANGLES AND WHY ARE THEY SHOWING UP???

 

I'm now having this issue across multiple files.

[Jeff Prince]

That’s a feature.  You disable it from the settings for entering the viewport if you don’t want it.

"Add Reference Crop Object" is what you want to uncheck.  It's quite handy for when you want to know the bounds of a viewport, such as making vicinity maps.

Edited April 25, 2023 by jeff prince

[Pat Stanford]

It shows the crop area of the viewport when you navigate from the Viewport using Edit Design Layers. If you don't want/need it just uncheck the Add Reference Crop Object. Or if it is helpful, just remember to delete it before you click the Return to Viewport button as a new Reference Crop Object will be created each time you Edit Design Layer.

 

[grant_PD]

so is this a new feature that was enabled?  I certainly didn't turn it on.  

[grant_PD]

And if it is new, might I suggest that the feature be modified to auto create a new class: "reference crop" instead of just putting it in the active class? 

[Tom W.]

It's not new. I have never used it, accidentally or otherwise. But I have my double-click set to 'Edit Annotations' so that's perhaps why...

[grant_PD]

So strange that I never noticed this setting.  And so strange that all of a sudden it got turned on.

[Pat Stanford]

Definitely not new. It has been around since at least VW2017, probably much earlier than that.

 

Command P with the Edit Viewport dialog box open would turn it on accidentally.

[Benson Shaw]

Way older than 2017. v12.5 or earlier?
Another thing that trips up the unwary is the stack of identical green rectangles formed by repeated switches between DL and VP. Could be a stack of many. Click/delete only removes the top one, making it seem that the delete action failed. Select similar works if settings adjusted, but be careful, other objects may be deleted. 
 

-B