jholley7390 Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 I have done this before but cannot remember how. I want to lock my viewport image so that it does not move even when I move it in model space.....I cannot remember how to do this and it is driving me crazy. I am working in 2008 autocad... Thanks for any and all help with this, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanjt Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 There's a picture of a lock in the bottom right or you can lock it from the Properties menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jholley7390 Posted July 13, 2010 Author Share Posted July 13, 2010 I should have worded the question better, I know how to lock a viewport itself, but when I move my drawing in model space my locked viewport is not retaining the image in my viewport. I need to know how to keep my image locked in my viewport no matter what I move in model space....Thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanjt Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Viewports don't work that way; think of a viewport as a window with which to look outside. Why are you moving your drawing anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jholley7390 Posted July 13, 2010 Author Share Posted July 13, 2010 Not moving all of my drawing just a detail part of it, where I need to blow up the detail to a greater scale. I am using the viewport to increase the scale....It is kind of complicated to explain it all. Also working on a drawing someone else created so dealing with that aspect of it as well. It is one large detail in one viewport. I created a second viewport to scale up a smaller detail inside the larger one. But now I have to move the smaller detail outside of the titleblock so it does not show on drawing twice. I guess I could try clipping that part of the original viewport out? Or creating a polygonal viewport and overwriting the original viewport so as not to show that portion of detail in original drawing.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanjt Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 If you can get away with it, instead of duplicating (copying your objects over and scaling them), why not create a separate layer for the larger scale labels then just VPFreeze accordingly. That way, you never have more than one copy of an object, just additional labels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jholley7390 Posted July 13, 2010 Author Share Posted July 13, 2010 Damn that is a good idea, had not thought about that....I guess I was trying to make it too complicated, lol!!! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanjt Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 I bet I've suggested that to 50 people in my decade of cad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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