Landmark_SIG_046 Special Interest Group March (am) 2014

In this session we looked at several Viewport tricks for dealing with detailed drawings.

Topics Covered:
The power and importance of Viewports (for 2D and 3D views) 

• there are several types of Viewports (e.g. Viewport, Detail Viewport, Section Viewport, etc.)
• they can be placed on design layers or on sheet layers
• design layers are for creating objects / design
• sheet layers are for printing
• the relationships between Viewports and classes
• using Viewport crops to control the size of a Viewport
• options of Viewport crop shapes
• customizing Viewport settings
• -> each Viewport can control its own scale, layer settings, class settings, class attributes, line weights, text settings, views, render settings, crop shape, lights, etc.
• adding and customizing Sheet Borders
• editing the Annotation or the Crop of a Viewport
• creating a Detail Viewport & customizing it (editing the ‘Detail Callout Settings’)
• applying the ‘Constrained Linear Dimension’ tool
• -> changes to an object / design (either on a design layer or in a Viewport) are automatically updated in all other Viewports
• copying & moving an existing Viewport to a different layer (references do automatically update)
• how to create plan details (also using Detail Viewports)
• -> more information about Viewports can be found in my Vectorworks Essentials Tutorial Manual, pages 50-59 and 118-131
• creating a Section Viewport from a 3D object
• using the Advanced Properties of a Viewport
• editing the crop (Clip tool / Edit Crop command)
• creating a Plan Viewport from an existing 3D Viewport
• creating an Elevation Viewport from an existing 3D Viewport
• using the Renderworks Camera Tool to create Viewports
• editing & fine tuning the camera settings
• updating a single Viewport or all Viewports together
• how to increase the Render Quality of Viewports by adjusting the DPI setting on the Organization palette
• using the various Render options (Foreground & Background)
• (again) looking briefly at Plant Database worksheets

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