make viewports bigger

[lucylou]

does anyone know how to make viewports bigger? im on VW 12.5 thanks.

[Petri]

Change their scale.

[lucylou]

i meant the size of the viewport crop/window!

[Petri]

Enter the viewport (double-click it), choose Crop, change the size of the object (usually rectancle) that does the cropping.

It is in the manual...

Edited November 17, 2006 by Petri

[lucylou]

but there arent any 'lines' as such to click on! i can click on the "crop" but there isnt a line to click on.

[Petri]

Say "select all". The rectangle may have zero line width. Or maybe there isn't a crop - in that case, the viewport shows all objects in the layers & classes it is defined to show.

[G_Hannigan]

If anything is selected as Petri suggests, but still can't be seen, the crop object may be hidden. Check the following (from Help file):

"To hide the crop object, edit the viewport?s crop (see Cropping Viewports) and set the object?s Pen Style to None. Alternatively, change the class of the crop object to invisible."

Edited November 17, 2006 by G_Hannigan

[daomun]

If you created the viewport from a view on a design layer, or just ran the "create viewport" command, it doesn't have a crop, it just sizes itself to the objects viewed or the perspective "boundary frame" (I'm not sure what it's called). To control the size of the viewport, double-click it, and select "crop" to edit, once inside the crop, simply draw a 2d rectangle to delineate the size and/or shape of the viewport. When you exit "crop" the viewport will take on the dimensions of the rectangle. If you don't want to see the rectangle, go back into "crop and set it's line weight to zero.

[G_Hannigan]

It sounds like the viewport was created as described by daomun, without a crop object. You can create the crop as described. I guess the question is, what do you mean by bigger? Are the objects displayed in the viewport too small? This would be a scale adjustment that you can make in the OIP.

[Ray Libby]

If you did make a crop and the crop object is not selectable, it's a class issue. If the crop objects class is not set to visible you won't be able to select the crop object.

[lucylou]

Thanks daomun! I think you've cracked it!