Yagoona, October 26, 2011 in AutoCAD Drawing Management Output.

Worst is if I scale in and loose the part of the drawing I wanted to show and have to use the handles again to make the viewport really large to find the spot that way.

If you do change the scale, you can always undo the last couple of actions and try again.

When you are done positioning your view, simply double click anywhere outside the viewport to go back to paperspace, reset your correct viewport scale, then lock the viewport.

I am used to the model space opening up and taking up the screen.

Panning here makes no diff to the viewport when I go back to the layout view.

This is not helping you visualize the viewport relationship to the layout if you cant see the layout surrounding it at the same time.

Double-clicking the VP border Maximizes the viewport, you can PAN all you want locked or unlocked when you minimize it will still be the same.

I gave it a go in the first post of this thread but seems that this is still not clear.

Can I not pan in side the viewport to get the desired part of the drawing in the viewport quickly.

In layout1 I have 2 viewports, the left shows the part as a whole, the right on is a copy of the left one but the scale is set to 1:1.

As far as I can tell it is the tale waging the dog operation - zoom in a bit then adjust the viewport border to center that part of the drawing, zoom in again, etc.

I have the feeling you are assuming too much acad knowledge in me.

Instead double click inside the viewport, or at the bottom of the screen there is a Model space Paper space button to toggle between the two, pick on that.

You should still see the viewport(s) but your cursor will only work inside the current viewport.

If you have more than one viewport then click once inside of it and now that one is current.

Now either hit the toggle button at the bottom of the screen or move your cursor outside the viewport and double click, you will be back into paper space.

Now lock the viewport, you can right click on the viewport and use a menu there, or click on the viewport and use properties, or type mview, lock, on, pick the viewport or type all to select all viewports.

Thats what you get by doing things on a stupid deadline all the time.

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