some basic viewports questions

[mralistair]

Excuse some basic viewport operation questions..

When I edit the crop of a viewport my titleblock dissapears, this makes it tricky to align etc. is this normal and can it be stopped?

also how do i set viewports not to print the outline?

and lastly what do people consider the best way to set up consistent viewports/sheet locations to ensure plans are always in the correct location on the page? templates / a reference file with all the viewports / some other cunning way?

thanks.

[Jonathan Pickup]

when you edit the viewport everything else disappears. There is a VectorWorks to show others in groups. Turn this on and you will see your title block and the other parts of the drawing.

To stop the outline printing i set the lineweight of the viewport crop to 0. There are other ways, but I like to use zero line weight.

I copy and paste in place the first plan viewport, then edit the layers and classes to suit the next plan.

If you have my Essential manual you will see there is an exerise on the last two questions.

[mralistair]

thanks for that.

[Tom K]

Go to http://vectordepot.com/PlugIns1.shtml scroll down you will see a plug-in that toggles your viewport crops off/on. Big time saver.