tpenna Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Is there a way to set a viewport's scale by zooming dynamically, as in rolling the mouse wheel or using the zoom tool to select a window? Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Not quite what you ask, but viewports & contained annotations respond to the Modify> Rescale Objects command. The scale bar, text, scale info in drawing the label, etc all rescale properly. -B 1 Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 No. The scale is set in the OIP. You can however rescale the Viewport by entering a new width or height; it will scale to fit. You can also use the Clip tool to clip away unwanted edges, or interestingly to clip a single Viewport in two. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted March 10, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 10, 2015 Sheet layer viewports can also be grouped, then scaled by dragging a corner grip. Since viewports must be scale proportionally, I usually hold the shift key to constrain the proportions. This will give you a proportional interactive preview as you drag. Quote Link to comment
tpenna Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 Thanks, Matt. That was the trick I was looking for. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted March 11, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 11, 2015 Glas to help Tony. BTW: Good to see someone from Clemson here! I spent many long nights in Lee Hall (School of Architecture there). :-) Quote Link to comment
MattG Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Not quite what you are looking for here, however sharing my opinion. I have a set title block I use for most projects. In there I have a clearly defined space in the border for a viewport. This is assuming the type of project with only one viewport in that space etc... I hate when I make a viewport that floats out of that area. Often times what I do is go to the sheet layer. Draw a rectangle or whatever to fill that space. Do a quick cut of that object. Past on a design layer then start scaling it from the modify menu in typical architectural scale amounts. IE scale by 48, 96, 32 stuff like that that way I can see the area that will be in my viewport and if I need to bump up or down a scale to include some certain geometry. Then I go to create a viewport and just choose the corresponding scale value for the amount I scaled by. I know it seems a little goofy, but it works for me. Matt Quote Link to comment
tpenna Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 Thanks, MattG. What I'm trying to do is set up a sheet layer on 8.5x11 with a viewport that is NTS but fills up the page. What I had been doing was setting the viewport scale to 1/8", which is often too small, or 1/4" which doesn't fit on the page. I saw the Custom... option, but ain't nobody got time to click in the OIP and enter scale settings until you find the right one! And Matt P: good to know you're a Tiger! If you're ever on campus please let me know! Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Select the Viewport In the OIP enter 8.5" as the width Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted March 12, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 12, 2015 (edited) And Matt P: good to know you're a Tiger! If you're ever on campus please let me know! It's been a LONG time since I've been there, but I hope to get down there someday soon. I'll certainly let you know if/when I do. :-) Edited March 12, 2015 by Matt Panzer Quote Link to comment
nahekul Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 On 3/10/2015 at 4:25 PM, Matt Panzer said: Sheet layer viewports can also be grouped, then scaled by dragging a corner grip. Since viewports must be scale proportionally, I usually hold the shift key to constrain the proportions. This will give you a proportional interactive preview as you drag. @Matt Panzer This doesn't seem to work with VW 2021 anymore. The viewport when scaled in group becomes blank. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted March 8, 2021 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 8, 2021 On 3/5/2021 at 12:37 PM, nahekul said: @Matt Panzer This doesn't seem to work with VW 2021 anymore. The viewport when scaled in group becomes blank. I took a quick look and see the issue as well. I'm not sure if there's a reason this behavior changed, but I entered a bug to have it looked at (VB-177280) Quote Link to comment
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