removal of View port crop

[L Phillips]

VW 11.5

How do you remove the unwanted crop circle created in View ports when printing?

Autocad has a printing lock for this type of cropping polygon with it's own designated class /layer which prevents it from printing.

Tried giving the polygon a Viewport class at creation and switching off under Organise Classes without success.

[CipesDesign]

Double clicking on the VP will bring up a dialog with three choices: choose "crop". Wait a sec, then select the cropping object(s), go to the attributes palette and change the line weight to zero. Then click "exit crop" to return to the sheet layer.

[Taproot]

Another way to do this is to simply change the line attribute of the cropped object to NONE. It will effectively disappear.

[Jonathan Pickup]

John William?s posted this to the VectorWorks List:

- create a class, create a viewport crop if you don't have one already, and set the class as invisible. Due to differences between AutoCAD and VectorWorks, you'll need to make sure the class is invisible both in the viewport and on the sheet. Finally, don't use a rectangle object for the crop - convert to polygon if you already have a rectangle.

[CipesDesign]

Jonathan, I'm curious...Why should a poly be used instead of a rectangle???

[mike m oz]

Jonathon - I'm curious too!

[JHEarcht]

Apparently this is a glitch in the export engine. When opened in AutoCAD, invisible crop *rectangles* in VW display as hard lines, making the drawing cluttered with extraneous lines. I haven't tried it yet, but John Williams implies that invisible crop *polygons* display properly in AutoCAD. I guess we will have to wait for the next full upgrade for a fix. Meanwhile, just don't use rectangles as crops.

JHE