Viewport created from Viewport

[jseamons]

I am trying to create a detail viewport in paperspace from an existing viewport. Any ideas how this can be done? I would like to draw a box around the area show what is to be blown up then create a new viewport from it at a 1" = 1" scale.
Thanks for any help possible.

[Doodlemusmaximus]

I don't quite get what you are trying to do here, but perhaps using viewport align might be the trick your after

[jaberwok]

Do you want to make a copy of the vport then zoom it inside it?

[rkmcswain]

This isn't exactly what you are asking for, but it may help...

http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2005/06/creating-blow-up-details.html

[jseamons]

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. Most if not all of our annotation and dimensions are done in paperspace. At this point we then also create our 1:1 Blow up details from our viewports that have scales of 1" = 1' or 1 1/2" = 1' etc. So what I am trying to do is create a LISP routine that starts by asking for the user to draw a box around the area that they want blown up while in paper space then take a copy of that surrounded area which is within that viewport and then scale it up to 1" = 1" and paste the new enlarged viewport somewhere on the paperspace layout.
My main struggle is with the connection of paper to model. How do I draw a rectangle in paperspace and have it transfer to Modelspace. (like "CHSPACE" does except something usable in lisp).

[madcadder]

Attached lisp routine will make a bubble in MS and scale it to the factor you want.
No new VP needed.

If you must have a viewport let me know I have a couple other tools that can do this, but it's a little more involved to make it look perfect. You would have to create a new viewport, zoom to where you want to zoom, move it to the location in ps, change it to a layer that plots, run a lisp to draw the perimeter of the viewport in MS, draw a line connecting the MS outline to the bubble, rinse, and repeat.