Experience I've been in the 3D/2D CAD industry for over 10 yrs. & also had the opportunity/exposure to work with several mainstream design platforms including Helix Design Systems to Land Desktop.
Question QUESTION: How do I angle a viewport? I am wanting to add break lines in paper space and for this reason I would like to beable to angle the viewport.
Thank you,
Chantale
ANSWER: Chantale, you can't really rotate a viewport (unless its polygonal) & the objects rotate accordingly. You have to rotate the objects inside the viewport manually. To do this, ensure you're in paperspace & double click inside the viewport to port you to model space. Use the 'DVIEW' command & select objects you want affected or rotated (in your case type 'ALL'), then type 'TW' for the twist option & indicate the rotation angle desired (so its ideal to figure out the angle first). Hope this helps, let me know!
-JB
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QUESTION: Hi JB,
Thank you for taking the time to respond. Unfortunately,
I don't want to rotate the drawing. I want to beable to draw a break line in paperspace because I want to show a close up of a plan. By doing this close up it cuts off the plan and looks unfinished. What I was trying to achieve is to angle one of the lines on the viewport. For example I tried to explode the viewport (don't think it works) and wanted to angle one viewport line to mimic the angle of the break line. The reason I want to do this is so that I don't have to erase any of the plan in model space as I am using that plan for two tabs. I hope I am clear. Let me know if this is possible or if there is another way. I could copy the plan and start over however if there is a quicker more efficient way that would be great as I have a lot of drawings. Hope to hear from you soon.
Chantale
Answer Ok, im assuming you currently have a typical rectangular viewport & that all corners are constrained only to move orthographically. 2 ways you can approach this.
On top of your existing rectang. VP, create a 'Closed Polyline' (create as many verteces as you want but 4 should give u enough flexibility) overlapping w/ edge of your break line. Invoke 'VPCLIP' command, select rectang. VP, then the closed pline u created. Grip stretch new VP if needed.
2nd way is to create closed pline, '-vports' command & 'O'. Then select the pline. Fix VP scale then grip stretch if needed.
Hope this helps, let me know.
Regards,
Jory Borge
...additionally, '-vports' & 'p' option can also be used. Enables u to crate pline on the fly & then crate the viewport.
