wamarchitects Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 How do you edit a viewport crop? We have set the viewport box on the sheet layer so that it is invisible (ie no line), however we are experiencing great difficulties in trying to subsequently edit the shape/scale etc of the viewport in the sheet layer. When I make one on my 12.5.3 version, it seems to work - I can double click on the area of the screen where the line would be, and I get the box where you choose how you want to edit (annotations/crop etc) and then I can still change the properties of the viewport. However my colleague can't make this work on her version of the same program at all - she can get as far as the editing choice box, and it seems to work but then she can't actually edit anything - she can't snap onto the viewport frame to change it's shape or anything. Can anyone help? It's driving her (and consequently the rest of the office!) mad! All ideas will be much appreciated, thank you! Lucy Quote Link to comment
Gytis Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 How about "Select All" to find the viewport crop--that might work. BTW, double-posting is a no-no. Quote Link to comment
wamarchitects Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Sorry! I hardly ever post & didn't realise there was an etiquette to these things, apologies. We have tried doing 'select all', and 'force select', but nothing happens at all. Another problem we have had is that when you pick the 'design layer edit' option for editing a viewport, it sends you to the design layer, but there is no way back - nothing shows up in the sheet layers and the only way of getting anything back is to go through everything manually and switch on each class. This is very odd, as the other two options (Crop and Annotations) have an 'exit crop' button in the top right corner. It's all a bit of a puzzle - we are just two trying to figure this out and the help book is not much help! Any other ideas for things we could check? Thank you Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Viewport crop editing hasn't changed. The crop object is in a class that is not visible. Turn on all classes and you will be able to select it. Quote Link to comment
wamarchitects Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Ah ha! We seem to have fixed the problem, thank you! Too much random drawing of viewports on our part, and too many different classes switched off. I wonder why the book doesn't tell you to make a dedicated class for viewports? We will definitely be doing this from now on! The design layer edit is still a bit of a mystery though, as it seems a good idea but you end up having to switch all the classes on again that were switched off in the design layer. A bit frustrating when you have lots of classes. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 It's not the class of the viewport, it's the class of the crop object. I always have my crop object in the none class, which should always be on. Quote Link to comment
Vectorlogic Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Wish List: A check box in the OIP for viewports, show or hide crop object. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 That's a good wish. You may want to post your wish in the Wish List Requests forum to get the correct people looking at it. There is a script here to toggle crop visibility, "Toggle Viewport Crop Display": http://www.vectordepot.com/older_plug-ins.html Quote Link to comment
wamarchitects Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Sorry, you've lost me: what's the difference between a viewport and a crop object? I don't understand! I've never heard of a crop object before.... Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 A viewport is an object which references (design) layer and class data; a crop object is used to crop (or limit the extent of) a viewport... Read the "help" files for more info... Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 If you created your viewport by drawing a rectangle then choosing Create Viewport..., the rectangle is your crop object, which is what you are trying to edit in your original post. Change the rectangle to the "none" class before you create the viewport. Quote Link to comment
wamarchitects Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 Thank you Ray, a lot has become much clearer now! Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 My pleasure, glad it worked out. Quote Link to comment
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