Viewport Edit

[Tsquared]

I no longer have the Edit Viewport dialog box when I click on a viewport how do I get this back? The viewport does become active and I do have to 'Exit Viewport Crop' but I can't edit the crop, only move the viewport.

[Guest]

Are you refering to right clicking on a viewport or double clicking on a viewport?

Are you using VW 12.5?

[Jonathan Pickup]

if you upgrade to VectorWorks 12.5, then you can right mouse click to move from the viewport crop area to the viewport annotations. When you are finished, exit the viewport crop of exit the viewport annotations.

My Essential manual has a chapter on viewports and sheet layers.

[cbaarch]

I think this is a bug

I reported the same behavior

it has been verified by NNA (B055260)

[Tsquared]

I'm using v12.5, and was referring to double clicking the viewport. Since sending the post I stumbled upon the right click options, as described by Jonathan. I assume that I should be able to access the Edit Viewport dialogue box and did think that I might have somehow accidentally disabled this function, but according to cbaarch this could be a bug?

[Guest]

There's a new option available in 12.5 when double clicking on VPs to edit them.

When you first double click on a Viewport, you are asked what you'd like to happen when you double click on a viewport. There's an option to set that selected behavior to happen every time you double click on a viewport.

It sounds like "crop" was selected and the option to always do this was enabled.

To reset this, right click on the viewport and select Edit Viewport. Select a new double click function and enable to do it always - or remove the enable always option. That way, everytime you double click, you will get the dialog box asking you what you want to do.

Likewise, the right click menu option allows you to go to Edit Annotations, Edit Crop, and Edit Design Layer. In addition, while you are in either edit annotations or edit crop mode, you can right click and jump to one of the other editing modes without exiting the Edit Viewport mode.

[Biplab]

B055260 - is a different bug regarding navigation to a design layer from a viewport.

[Tsquared]

Thanks Katie, dialogue box now back.