Beginner at layouts: 2 questions

[EIA]

Hi everyone, we are starting to work with layouts at my office and we are finding it quite a bit troublesome, since we all have been working on model space since the dawn of mankind lol.

 

First of all, related to annotative stuff (many questions about it actually, but this one is the hardest one for me to answer): how do you guys deal with these "ghosts" that appear whenever you have something with more than one annotative scale? Do you just have one for all of them? Say you decide to change the viewport scale; do you change the annotative scale manually on every object in the viewport?

 

The second question is a bit more specific: in order to adapt the way we are working right now to layout space, I find nesting viewports quite useful, having one big viewport for the whole drawing then small viewports for the details, something like this:

 

The thing is, whenever I try entering Viewport 2 by double clicking inside it, it enters viewport 1, is there any way to correct this? I know I can double click the red line to enter to full model space view, but still editing on the viewport context can be really useful.

 

Also, any beginner tip is appreciated, I've not been that active in this forum but the few times I asked for things people have been really nice and helpful, so thank you all!

 

 

[SLW210]

I prefer in most situations to place annotations in paperspace. If annotative scales are needed for some reason, check out SELECTIONANNODISPLAY and set to 0 I believe.

 

Often I can get in the correct ViewPort by clicking, but if the main one activates instead, use Ctrl+R to cycle through them.

 

Change viewports with multiple viewports in one layout

[BIGAL]

The one main thing for me is when your happy with a viewport lock it. Its easy to go inside and edit something doing a pan or zoom then you realise you have stuffed up the look of the viewport. Ok a hint if working metric have the viewports toolbar displayed, when you go into a viewport you will see the current scale displayed, a nice thing is that you can type a number in there and the view port rescales. For metric working in metres 1:100 type 10 it's that simple. 

 

Working on a pick point in model make a layout and viewport at correct scale. Are you metric or imperial, need help with imperial.

 

Some more comments by working in layouts. Goto layout, Plot range layouts, Make Dwg index. Just a few have more. Update revisons, others will hint at more useful functions.