Create a Long Section Viewport

Create a viewport in a drawing view that displays long sections from a long section view.

CAD / Viewport / New or
CAD / Viewport / / Long Section

• Profile module
• A drawing view

• Click New or Select or press Esc to exit insert mode.
• You can create a viewport when a drawing view tab is active.
• For creation of long section viewports click the location in the drawing of the first corner, then click the location of the diagonal corner.
• 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 and properties.
• The long section options in the long section view determine the display of objects in the long section viewport with the following exceptions:
  • Zoom Factor is used to display text and geometry lines only in the long section view.
  • Vertical Exaggeration is used only to compute a Vertical Scale when the viewport is first created.
  • Default point symbols and labels are always off.
• If multiple long section views are displayed at the time a long section viewport is created, the long section view highest in the list in the Manage Long Section Views dialog is displayed in the viewport.
• At the time of creation:
  • all visible layers in the long section view are visible in the viewport.
  • the viewports X extents will match the X extents of the long section view.
  • the long sections views vertical exaggeration will be applied to the computed horizontal scale to determine the vertical scale.
  • a viewports layer visibility reflects the long section view displayed in the viewport however, the layers visibility is automatically disconnected from the same layer in the long section view.
• If a new drawing is created that contains a long section viewport, the viewports layer display settings and the display settings synchronised state is retained.
• If the long section view displayed in the viewport is changed:
  • all visible layers in the new long section are visible in the viewport and disconnected from the long section view.
  • the viewports layer display settings and the synchronised state is retained.
• Double click inside the viewport or click to enter edit viewport mode.
• In edit viewport mode you can use the:
  • Ribbon view tools to change the section of the long section view captured by 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 long section 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 long section viewport is copied and pasted within the same project the following are preserved:
  • The viewports properties.
  • The viewports layer display settings and the synchronised state.
  • The viewports layer visibility and connectivity state.
• When a viewport is copied and pasted, or imported into another project:
  • 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.
  • Long sections views connected to the viewport are not copied. If you require the long section data with the viewport, import the project.
• Exported drawings will not include long section viewports.

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