How can I have Viewports overlapping

K_Lecky1
K_Lecky1
edited September 10 in Printing and Plotting

I have a construction site plan that I'm trying to export to PDF with certain areas having a 'zoomed in' view.

I can create the viewports and they look visually on Brics the way I want them, ie. the zoomed in viewport on top of the other, but when I export it to pdf the 'top' viewport becomes translucent and everything below it is visible as well.

I have tried changing the layers 'visual style control' and each viewports visual also. I've tried every combination I can think of and once it's exported it always has the viewports translucent rather than layered on top of eachother.

Is there a way to do this easily rather than drawing each viewport to the shape I need?

Comments

  • Virgil
    Virgil

    Hello.

    Overlapping viewports don't work well.
    So, indeed, the larger one should be clipped to make room for the smaller ones.

  • ALANH
    ALANH

    This is a workaround its not pretty. you use a keyhole viewport, this way you have a hole in the viewport, hope the image makes sense, the viewport shown on the right started at midpoint of original viewport for entire sheet. I deleted the full size viewport after making the polygon viewport. Also added a smaller box viewport as inside. You need to have the layer set to no plot for the viewports. Use polygon option when making the viewport. The segment on right is actually 2 segments. I started extreme right and used close for last point.

    screenshot518.png

  • David Waight
    David Waight

    Hopefully, I can explain the workflow that worked for me.

    Create the main viewport and the one you want to sit on top of it.

    Position the overlapping viewport where you want it, and then draw a rectangle around the main viewport and the overlapping one.

    Select both these rectangles and turn them into REGIONs.

    SUBTRACT the overlapping rectangle from the main rectangle to give you a region with a hole in it.

    Then use VPCLIP by selecting the main viewport (make sure you are selecting the viewport and not the REGION that is on top), and then select the REGION.

    The main viewport contents may disappear, but if you REGEN it will come back.

    The REGION that is now a viewport can be set not to print, but this may be confusing as there is no distinction between the overlapping viewport and the main viewport.

    This by the way all takes place in Paperspace.

    Attached is the .dwg and the

    .pdf I ended up with.

    Is this what you were expecting, or too time-consuming to be useful?

    Drawing1 Overlapping Viewport.dwg
    Drawing1 Overlapping Viewport.pdf

  • Joe Dunfee
    Joe Dunfee

    Mr. Waight, you demonstrate the idea, that with most things involving computers, when asked, "can you do this…" the answer is normally yes.

    It may require significant cleverness to create the solution. And sometimes the solution is not really practical, or worth the effort. But, the answer normally is yes you can.

  • David Waight
    David Waight

    @Joe Dunfee I'm not sure if I am thanking you for a compliment or not. :-)

    I admit it is a long-winded way of doing it, and it isn't something I have had a need for, but it was an interesting challenge.

    Talking of challenges, were you able to sort out your problem of reinstating your Bricscad (was it V14)?