Create a Viewport

Create a viewport in a drawing view that displays objects from the model view.

CAD / Viewport / New or
CAD / Viewport / / Rectangular or Circular or Free Form

• CAD module
• A drawing view

• Click New or Select to exit insert mode.
• You can create a viewport when a drawing view tab is active.
• For creation of:
  • rectangular viewports - click the location in the drawing of the first corner, then click the location of the diagonal corner.
  • circular viewports - click the location in the drawing of the centre, then click a location on the edge of the viewport.
  • free form viewports - click the location of the viewport vertices in the drawing, then click back on the first vertex to close the shape.
• You can snap to the drawing grid when creating viewports.
• You can select or tentatively select drawing view objects when creating the viewport border.
• The viewport is created on the active layer.
• The viewports border is initially drawn with the active layers viewport display settings.
• Edit the properties of the selected viewport in the Attributes tool.
• Each viewport has a unique set of layer settings, properties and view options.
• The view options in the model view impacts the initial display of objects in the viewport with the following exceptions:
  • Point symbols, line widths, line weights and line styles are always on.
  • Default point symbols, contours, contour smoothing and shadows are always off.
• At the time of creation:
  • all visible layers in the model view are visible in the viewport.
  • the viewports Y extents will match the Y extents of the earliest model view.
  • a viewports layers are automatically disconnected from the same layer in the model view. If you want changes in the model view to be reflected in the viewport, edit the viewport, then connect the viewports layers to the model view layers.
• In Edit Viewport mode you can use the:
  • Ribbon view tools to change the section of the model view captured by the viewport.
  • Options - Viewport tool to configure which objects are displayed in the viewport.
  • Layers - Viewport tool to configure the layers displayed in the viewport, the appearance of the displayed objects in the viewport and the connectivity of the viewport layers with the model view.
• When you turn off the visibility of a viewports layer, the viewport and all its contents is hidden.
• You can turn off the viewports border in the Attributes tool.
• When a viewport is copied and pasted within the same project the following are preserved:
  • The viewports display options.
  • The viewports properties.
  • The viewports layer display settings and synchronised state.
  • The viewports layer visibility and connectivity state.
• When a viewport is copied and pasted, or imported into another project:
  • The viewports display options are preserved.
  • The viewports properties are preserved.
  • For layers common to the project and the copied viewport, the viewports layer display settings and synchronised state are preserved.
  • For layers common to the project and the copied viewport, the viewports layer visibility and connectivity state are preserved when valid. If the viewports layer is connected to the model view and the visibility of the viewports layer is different to the project, the projects layer visibility is preserved.
  • Objects displayed in the viewport are not copied. If you require the data with the viewport, import the project or copy the required model data prior to copying the viewport.
• You can display the viewport boundaries in the model view when the viewports View Type is configured to Plan.
• For a background image from an image service to be printed the image service must return image tiles suitable for the printer resolution. The resolution of your printer will likely be higher than the resolution of your computer screen. You may see the image tiles displayed in your viewport but not in your printed document.

• Edit a Viewport
• Viewport Option
• Drawing Grid
• Active Layer
• Layer Display Settings
• Appearance Attributes
• Viewport Layer Display Settings