Viewport boundary completely gone

[ptatohed]

I have a drawing with three viewports. All three are on the same layer and all three are irregular plines (I originally created rectangular vp’s using the mview command and then later used the viewportclip command to get them to my irregular pline boundary shapes). Well, yesterday, I was adding more vertices to my middle vport and it lost its association! The pline boundary is still there but it’s not a vport. My viewport window is still there (I can still double click in it and enter ‘floating’ mspace) but it turned back to a rectangle and there is no visible vport boundary for it. It is NOT on a frozen/off layer.

How can I restore my pline vport? Or at least see a visible vport boundary?

Thanks.

 

 

 

[CADgirl]

Can you use the create viewport from an object command?

[ptatohed]

Can you use the create viewport from an object command?

 

 

I can, but it would just create a new VP. I can not in anyway touch or alter (or delete, for that matter) the 'invisible' rectangular VP.

[CADgirl]

Can you use QSelect?

[ptatohed]

Can you use QSelect?

 

Hmm... good idea. But nope. It highlighted my first and third VPs but not the invisible middle VP.

[CADgirl]

Weird.

 

Here are a couple other threads that might help-

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?35362-Unable-to-View-select-or-edit-Viewports

 

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?25613-Unable-to-select-viewport

 

Other than that I am stumped. Hopefully someone else can help you out!

[Mike_Taylor]

Is there anyway you can post it (erase all content in the drawings leaving just the viewports), I am sure you will get an answer relatively quickly.

[steven-g]

I have had this a couple of times, when creating a viewport using mview and picking an object, the last time was last week so I remember it, I then deleted the original polyline and was left with a viewport that showed model space but no physical signs of a viewport itself, I wish I could offer an answer but I can't, just wanted to let you know that I just kept hitting undo untill the polyline came back. It may not work for you but if you close the drawing down then you won't have that option available. I would suggest saving the drawing then try using the undo feature,to get to a point where things are normal again.

[RobDraw]

I'm not sure what is going on with the viewport boundary not being visible. It could be just a temporary glitch that a restart will fix. If you can somehow select the viewport, getting the associativity back to the polyline is easy. VPCLIP or CLIP will clip your viewport to the polyline.

[ptatohed]

Group,

I got it! After spending hours trying different things (including shutting down and restarting/re-opening), this is what finally worked. From PS, I double clicked so I was in 'floating' MS (still no visible boundary, just an invisible rectangular VP). Then, I clicked the 'Maximize VP' button on the bottom right ACAD border and then 'Minimize VP'. Boom - a rectangular VP was now visible! I then did a simple VP Clip to the rectangle, selected my original PLine VP and had my original irregular VP back. Weird. Thanks everyone!