din Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 I've been getting to grips with using the detail viewports for the first time, and we have created a series of 1:5 detail viewports from a 1:50 section viewport - the design layers are also at 1:50 scale. However, these detail viewports retain the 1:50 hatch density for blockwork, concrete etc. rather than resizing to suit the smaller detail scale. I tried the viewport's "advanced properties" but couldn't find an option to change the hatch scale as you can do with normal viewports. Is the option to change hatch scale located elsewhere, or is it not yet possible to change this for detail viewports? - if this is the case, I think this makes the detail viewports of limited use for typical black & white construction drawings. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted January 2, 2013 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 2, 2013 It depends on which hatch you are using, but this might be to do with the hatches themselves - some of World scale and others (like concrete, blockwork etc.) are page based. Therefore, they are always displayed the same, regardless of scale. Quote Link to comment
din Posted January 2, 2013 Author Share Posted January 2, 2013 Thanks Tamsin, You were right - it was an issue with page-based hatch scales. We were using some old hatch patterns that had been set to this - when reset to world-based they rescaled properly in the detail viewport. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted January 2, 2013 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 2, 2013 Glad I was able to help. Quote Link to comment
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