Page Question

[not registered yet]

I've started messing around with layout a little, mainly to get scaled elevations.

When I add a page, how do i get a new viewport to show up? Currently I add the page, than go back to a page, click and copy that viewport, than move back to the new page, and paste. This can't be the only way to do this can it?

Thanks

(crojack)

[Gaieus]

Crojack,

In the Default tray theer is a Layers tab. Go there and click on "Every page" (to make it "Current") then right click on your entity and from the context menu, choose to "Move to current layer".

This will "copy" an instance of it onto every page you create. Yet this will put the content on every page and you cannot create pages without this content.

[not registered yet]

Thanks for the reply.

Is this how this is supposed to be done, or is this a work around? Seems not the best/most efficient way to do it.

It also doesn't give you the option of adding more than one viewport on a page without using the copy/paste command.

I know that this is still beta, hopefully they will address this issue in the future.

I think just an "Add Viewport" button on the Pages window would work. I'm not expecting/wanting this to act just like Paperspace, but this is something that is needed I think.

Thanks again!

(crojack)

[Gaieus]

I guess you can assign anything (any thext, viewports entities) to this layer so there shouldn't be problem with it. Once you put sg on this layer (and you only need to do it once) it will repeat all through the pages. But the number of entities are limitless (well, only the page size limits them).

[jhauswirth]

There's 3 ways I can think of adding a new "viewport".

• File->Insert
  Then select the skp model that you want.

• Pages->Add
  Copy the "viewport" from the previous page and paste

• Pages->Duplicate
  This will create a new page that is a duplicate page of the current page.

I think just an "Add Viewport" button on the Pages window would work.

Can you explain how this would work?
Does it add a new viewport above the selected viewport?

[not registered yet]

I think that you would have a page open, than click the "Add Viewport" button, than click out into the page. maybe it would create a standard size viewport that you can than change, or maybe when you clicked, it would start a corner of a rectangle, than you would drag/click to end the rectangle and that would be the viewport.

Or, you could draw a rectangle, right-click on it, and in the drop down there could be a "Make Viewport" choice.

(crojack)