Viewports

[rvanhees]

Hello, 

Using VW2019

 

How can ik make the viewport smaller, and i mean the 'orange' line around is make smaller.

I try to crop etc but it does not work, I can move the drawing label but still I find it to big

[JBenghiat]

A few things:

 

- The orange box is just the selection boundary, so you can ignore its size.  It is relevant in that it will tell you where you can click and select the Viewport, but should otherwise have no effect on output.

 

- Because it is the selection box, it's going to include annotations, as those are part of the entire viewport object.

 

- Cropping will have some effect on the selecting bounding box, but the bounding box will always be the union of the crop object and any annotation objects' bounding boxes.

 

- The bounding box also includes any planar objects, even if you can't really see them in a rendered 3D view.  You can try unchecking Display Planar Objects in Object Info and see if that resizes according to your expectations.  (Note, that means any dimensions will have to be VP annotations) 

[Andy Broomell]

Also, every one in a while I've found that you have to Update the viewport before the orange box reflects a change to any of the above.

[rvanhees]

Tnx for your input.

[scottmoore]

Really, all you need to do is double click on the VP and select “crop” from the pop-up menu. Make sure your selection tool is not in the first mode (which constrained). That will certainly mess you up as it just won’t work.  This was probably your issue.  By the way, you can use the “U” key to navigate through the various iterations of tools. That is a big time saver.