There are several ways to modify design layer viewports; their appearance can be completely different from the original design layers, for presentation purposes.
A design layer viewport can be edited like most 2D objects. For information on 2D tools and commands, see Editing 2D Objects.
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Use the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands to copy or paste a viewport on its original design layer or another design layer. Use the 2D Selection tool to drag a viewport to a new position (or edit the X, Y, and Z axis positions in the Object Info palette). Press the Delete key to delete a selected viewport.
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Use the Move, Rotate, and Mirror commands and the Rotate and Mirror tools to move, rotate, or mirror a viewport.
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Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Macintosh) on the viewport and select Edit from the context menu.
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Display using Viewport Attributes
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Sets the future behavior when a viewport is double-clicked, eliminating the display of this dialog box if desired (it can still be accessed from a viewport’s context menu). If the Edits the Design Layer option is selected, a double-click activates the design layer of the double-clicked object.
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Alternatively, right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Macintosh) on a viewport and select Edit Crop from the context menu.
A colored border around the drawing window indicates that you are in an edit mode. The Exit Group command becomes available from the Modify menu, and the Exit Viewport Crop button is visible in the top right corner of the drawing window.
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Create a 2D object (such as a rectangle, oval, polyline, or polygon). The 2D object must define an area; for example, a 2D line cannot be used. Position the 2D object to delimit the new viewport display area. The fill of a viewport cropping object is always None; however, the pen style can be set from the Attributes palette while in Edit Crop mode. Set the pen style to None to make the crop object invisible.
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To view other objects while in Edit Crop mode, select the Show other objects while in groups VectorWorks preference (see Display Preferences).
The bounding box of the crop object is also the perspective clip rectangle, if the viewport is in Perspective projection. Reshaping the crop object changes the perspective clip rectangle as well.
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Click Exit Viewport Crop to return to the design layer.
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To change, replace, or delete the crop object, right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Macintosh) on the viewport and select Edit from the context menu to re-enter Edit Crop mode.
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Visibility changes made from the Classes tab of the Organization dialog box (Tools > Organization) do not affect the visibility of the crop object. To change the class visibility of a crop object, click Classes from the viewport Object Info palette, and make the changes in the Viewport Class Properties dialog box (see Changing the Class Properties of Design Layer Viewports).
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Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Macintosh) on the viewport and select Edit from the context menu. The Edit Viewport dialog box opens (see Cropping Design Layer Viewports for a description of the dialog box parameters).
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Click Design Layer and select the design layer to edit from the list. Select Display using Viewport Attributes to view the design layer with the viewport attributes for the visibility of layers and classes. If the original design layer has different “Z” heights and Display using Viewport Attributes is selected, the layer options are set to Active Only.
Alternatively, right-click on a viewport and select Edit Design Layer from the context menu to activate the design layer of the right-clicked object.
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Click OK to make the selected design layer the active layer.
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The viewport’s layer visibility, opacity, stacking order, and colors can be changed to be different from the design layer that contains the viewport. Other viewports, as well as the design layer properties, are not affected. The viewport attributes can be tailored as desired for presentation; several copies of the same viewport can appear completely different.
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Lists the viewport layers and their visibility, edited status, layer color use status, and stacking order. Click the triangle in the heading of an active column to toggle between ascending and descending sort order based on that column parameter.
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Click to apply the viewport layer colors set in the Edit Viewport Design Layers dialog box (click Edit to set the colors, as described in the next step), overriding the design layer colors. This setting is independent of the Use layer colors document preference.
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Returns the viewport layer properties to their status upon opening the dialog box, undoing any layer overrides
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Indicates whether the layer stacking order in the viewport is different from the design layer stacking order. Click Revert Stacking Order to return to the original design layer stacking order.
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The same parameters apply when you create a design layer (see Setting Design Layer Properties); for viewport layers, only the stacking order, transfer mode or opacity, and colors can be edited. These edits apply to the current viewport only, though they can be transferred to other viewports with the Eyedropper tool.
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The viewport layer colors can be controlled separately from the design layer colors, for flexible presentation output. Click Colors to override the fill and pen colors for the selected viewport layer. To see the effects of the color override, Use Layer Colors must be selected in the Viewport Layer Properties dialog box for the selected viewport. This is similar to the way that Use Layer Colors must be selected in Document Properties to see the layer color settings for a design layer, as described in Setting the Design Layer Color.
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Click OK to return to the Viewport Layer Properties dialog box.
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Click Preview to evaluate the results of the property changes.
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Click OK to return to the design layer.
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The class visibilities and attributes of a selected viewport can be changed to be different from the design layer that contains the viewport. This does not change the class properties or the class visibility for the original design layers or for other viewports. The viewport attributes can be tailored as desired for presentation; several copies of the same viewport can appear completely different.
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From the Object Info palette, click Classes.
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The Viewport Class Properties dialog box opens. The dialog box functionality is slightly different for referenced and non-referenced (internal) viewports. Change class visibilities and/or make class attribute overrides for the selected viewport.
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Lists the viewport classes and their visibility and edited status; click in a class visibility column to change the class visibility for this viewport. Click the triangle in an active column to toggle between ascending and descending sort order based on that column parameter.
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Definition overrides
(Referenced viewports only)
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Opens the Import Attributes dialog box, to import the class attribute settings from the file or from another viewport. The attributes can be imported for the classes selected in the Viewport Class Properties dialog box, from corresponding classes, or from a specified class in the file or a specified viewport.
Click OK to import the class attributes into the selected viewport. (The Eyedropper tool can also transfer class override attributes between viewports.)
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(Non-referenced viewports only)
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Click OK to apply the changes to the selected viewport.
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