Creating a Paper Space Viewport on a Drawing

Command:

pdms_view_create

Menu Selection:

PDMS Draw>Create Viewport

Initial Prompt:

Select region to view First point:

Use:

Click on one corner of the part of the drawing that you wish to be contained within the viewport.

Other corner:

Drag out the rectangle which appears, and click on the other corner.

Position new viewport:

A rectangle representing the new viewport moves with the crosshairs. Click on the required position.

Magnify - base point/<None>:

Pressing Enter at this point will give a same-size copy of the windowed group of objects, and the viewport creation operation will be complete.

To produce a resized copy, click on the point that you wish to be the base point for the resize operation. (Should this point be outside the viewport, the viewport will be displaced as illustrated refer to fig 6.2 Definition of base point for magnify operation).

<Magnification factor>/Reference:

The default input for this prompt is simply a value, for example ‘2’ will give a copy twice as large as the original. (If you wish to produce a copy smaller than the original, input a value less than 1.)Pressing R (for ‘Reference’) gives two further prompts:

Reference length:

New length:

This option enables the copy to be magnified in an absolute sense rather than a relative sense. It works in exactly the same way as the Reference option of the AutoCAD scale command; see the AutoCAD Reference Manual.

Note: The drawing should be zoomed out to the edge of the drawing sheet in order that the new views are seen in their correct position with respect to the sheet. (Refer to Paper Space/Model Space Viewports.)