Drawing Origin

[doberman69]

Working on Vectorworks 2025 on a Macbook pro M1 with 15.3 sequoia.

 

I've always had this problem with drawing display ports showing the drawing way out in the middle of nowhere. I've reset the drawing origin multiple times. I made sure the drawing is center about the drawing origin. But......when I do a Multi viewport the drawings end up a mile from the center of the page. So I have to chase the viewports down. Once I pull them back into the center of the page then I have to chase down the title bubbles in each viewport as those are way off in space as well. By the time I'm done I've wasted time just correcting these issues. The title bubble is almost always off in space. Is there some initial setup I need to do to keep this from happening in the future? Would it matter if the drawing is of a entire building but the object I want to show on a page is hundreds of feet from the drawing origin so I'll have this problem anyway.

[LarryO]

A little insight to this: the standard views you select for viewports are rotated about the origin of the drawing environment. If the object you are seeking another view of is not near that origin you will have to chase it. Try to keep the origin of your symbols in a reasonable location close to the objects.

When detailing said symbols place an instance at the origin of a layer dedicated to detailing them. Use multiple visibility classes to make each one independently invisible if you want to limit the number detailing layers. By using symbols the model and the detailing instance remain coordinated.

Even when creating extrusions and performing solid operations a new origin within the solid is created relative to objects placement to the layer's origin at the time of doing the procedure.

Hope that helps.

It takes a while to wrap one's head about there being multiple origins and their relationship to the layer origin.