lolo66 Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Hi all, Is there a way to copy a Viewport that's been annotated on a sheet layer to another Vectorworks drawing. I'd like to copy my viewport of a set over into a large studio plan as it's been annotated and is ready to go. I can't seem to find a way around this but I hope there is one! Many thanks! Lois 2 Quote Link to comment
markdd Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Viewports can't be copied between drawings, but i think that if you right-click and press copy on the viewport you will be able to paste a PDF of the viewport into the other file. I'm not sure if you can copy paste the objects on the annotation layer itself, why not give it a try. Mark Quote Link to comment
Tom Klaber Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 There is a workaround for this. First Group the viewport you want to move - then copy the group. You will then be able to paste this group into a new drawing and ungroup it to get at your viewport. Then just go to the viewport settings and point it at the layer you need. (Obviously the viewport does not bring any of the design layer geometry with it, but it will bring the annotations and settings). 3 Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Hi, If you group and copy them over and you copy all your design layer stuff over and paste in place you will be able to eyedroper the attributes over, and you may have to turn on all your design layers in the viewports but they will all show exactly as the previous file. HTH 1 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 4 hours ago, Alan Woodwell said: Hi, If you group and copy them over and you copy all your design layer stuff over and paste in place you will be able to eyedroper the attributes over, and you may have to turn on all your design layers in the viewports but they will all show exactly as the previous file. HTH You had a nice video in some other thread .... Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Will do it again as I just noticed I had a title block it a section of the movie so I deleted it, Quote Link to comment
shawnsprawn Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 hey folks. what about viewports in design layers? i am trying to copy across, reference viewports in one file to another. my understanding is that the grouping only works for sheets? Quote Link to comment
Jim Smith Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 When I do this I save the group as a symbol then import the symbol into the target file. I do this as I was advised some time ago that this technique reduces errors creeping in 1 Quote Link to comment
rexwexford Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 hi all has anyone noticed that in vwx 2021 the grouping and pasting of a viewport into another document no longer works? i used this ALL THE TIME! any suggestions for a work around? Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 24 minutes ago, rexwexford said: hi all has anyone noticed that in vwx 2021 the grouping and pasting of a viewport into another document no longer works? i used this ALL THE TIME! any suggestions for a work around? This was re-instated for SP3. If you update you should be good to go. (It seems like it was actually re-coded - you don't even have to group the viewport anymore). Quote Link to comment
rexwexford Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 ah nice! i knew there was a reason i rant on here! i suspected it could have been related to an upgrade. its too useful to get rid of! thanks 2 Quote Link to comment
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