The Edit Viewport dialog box
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Command |
Path |
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Edit Viewport |
Modify Context menu (Edit) |
Use the Edit Viewport dialog box to access various viewport editing modes, such as those for viewport annotations, cropped viewports, section views, design layers, and cameras, and to set preferences for editing viewports.
To access the Edit Viewport dialog box:
Select the viewport and select the command. The Edit Viewport dialog box opens. The options available depend on whether the viewport is on a sheet layer or design layer (Vectorworks Design Suite product required).
Click to show/hide the parameters.Click to show/hide the parameters.
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Parameter |
Description |
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Annotations (Sheet layer viewports only) |
Create or edit viewport annotations and dimensions. See Creating annotations for sheet layer viewports. Drawing label styles can be set by the viewport style. |
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Crop |
Create or edit a cropped viewport. See Cropping existing sheet layer or design layer viewports. |
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Display viewport outside crop |
Displays the viewport outside of the crop with wireframe rendering; objects outside of the crop can be snapped to when creating or editing a crop shape |
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Gray outside crop |
If Display viewport outside crop is selected, displays the area outside of the crop in gray |
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Section In-Place (Design Suite product required) Elevation In-Place (Architect required) |
Interactively edit the design layers from a section or elevation view. See Editing design layers from a section or elevation view. |
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Design Layer |
Navigates to the selected design layer for editing. See Editing a design layer displayed in a viewport. |
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Display using viewport attributes |
Changes the file’s view settings to match those of the viewport. The file’s attributes remain the same as the viewport’s unless Navigate back to viewport is selected. A rendered viewport displays the original design layer with the viewport's render mode; however, the design layer's options for that render mode are used. |
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Add reference crop object (Sheet layer viewports only) |
When a viewport has been cropped, this option displays the crop on the design layer so that edits can be made while knowing the position of the crop object. Because the crop object is added to the design layer, it could become visible in other viewports that reference that area. The appearance of the crop object can be edited in the Attributes palette. |
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Navigate back to viewport |
Navigates back to the viewport and restores the file’s layer and class visibilities to their original status when editing is complete |
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Display with Clip Cube |
If you're editing a sheet layer viewport or section viewport (Design Suite product required), and Navigate back to viewport is selected, this option displays the design layer with a clip cube whose dimensions match the length, depth, and height ranges set for the viewport. Make any clip cube edits as described in Viewing a model with the clip cube. |
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Camera (Sheet layer viewports only) |
Edits a Renderworks camera or video camera that is linked to the viewport view. The camera view can be changed or the camera can be deleted, and the viewport visibilities can be applied. See Editing a linked Renderworks camera or video camera. |
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Keep the edit view on exit (Sheet layer viewports only) |
When you return to the viewport after editing, this setting maintains any view changes (zoom and view location) made during edits to the viewport annotations or crop object. Deselect this option to return to the original viewport view settings. This option is only available when the Annotations or Crop edit mode is selected. |
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Double Click |
Select whether a double-click on a viewport will open the Edit Viewport dialog box, or skip the dialog box and edit the annotations, crop, section in-place, elevation in-place, design layer, or camera |
