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Topic: match paper space viewport
Posted By: ncespedes
Subject: match paper space viewport
Date Posted: 29.Aug.2013 at 22:00
I'm trying to match viewports in paper space to inherit the layer set up. All of a sudden I'm not able to do it. The whole story is that I have one file with several layouts and want to match its paperspace viewports. I know that you can't use the match properties within one file, so I created a junk file where I can copy from, but it is not working now. Could it be because I have 20 layouts in the same file?
Control-C is not working either, it copies, but I don't carry the original viewport layout. What am I doing wrong?


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Posted By: heinsite
Date Posted: 04.Sep.2013 at 09:28
I can't tell you what you're doing wrong, but I can tell you that what I just tried worked fine.  Here's what I did:

I set up a Layout with a viewport and then activated it (meaning I double-clicked inside the viewport to work in Model space).
Then I VPort froze a couple of layers.  VP Freeze may be your answer here to creating different vport looks.
At this point I Ctrl-Shift Copied the VPort using 0,0 as the base point.

When I Ctrl-V pasted this vport in another Layout all the settings carried across.

I don't think it matters how many Layouts you have.  But it's important to know what your source viewport is and how things are set before you start copying and pasting.

Dave.


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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 04.Sep.2013 at 11:33
If you are having trouble with your keyboard shortcuts in general try resetting your Profile.


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Posted By: ncespedes
Date Posted: 04.Sep.2013 at 14:45
Thank you. VP Freeze seems to work.
However, and this would be a complain to AutoCAD/Autodesk, the "match command" should be able to do this. And I should be able to match view ports within a file, at present I can match from one file to another, but can't within the same file (as soon as I change layout it disappears).
 
Thank you Dave.


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