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kane333
2009-05-14, 07:20 PM
Hi all, I'm wondering is there a way to transfer Named Viewports to another drawing using DesignCenter or another method? I'm working on a building which has one side at a large (I.E. 300+ft) radius and the Gridlines are pie shaped. This makes for a pain trying to pull dimensions to sleeve and pipe centers. I'm rotating the UCS around the Z axis then using Plan-Current and naming each viewport per gridline. 13 gridlines x 8 floors x 1 set of plumbing drawings x 1 set of mechanical drawings = alot of work. Any help would be appreciated.
Norton_cad
2009-05-21, 11:35 AM
Viewports No. Views yes.
In Sheet set Manager, if you set up a new project, you will find it will be possible, to transfer views dynamically to seperate drawings. Have a look at the help files, you'll find it's not that hard to do.
irneb
2009-05-21, 01:37 PM
There are 3 methods I can think of:

Using DesCen you can drag&drop an entire layout (including any Title Blocks & viewports) from one DWG to another. However, I've found some probs with this before, so I don't reccomend.
Right click on any of the Layout Tabs & select "From template ...". Browse to the DWG which already contains the correct layout tabs, select & open. From the Layout names dialog select those you want (hold down Ctrl to select more than one), click OK.
To only duplicate a viewport between 2 seperate DWG's you can use copy-n-paste. Press Ctrl+C and select the original VP, enter or space. Go to the new DWG, press Ctrl+V place the VP where you want it. Select the VP and open the properties palette (Ctrl+1), change the "On" property in the "Misc" group to "Yes".
kane333
2009-05-21, 02:01 PM
Views was what I meant. Sorry I misworded that. I haven't worked with sheet sets yet but I'll look into it. Thanks for the advice.
eebryant
2009-05-29, 01:26 PM
I searched to find this and a big thanks to irneb. I can't believe that AutoCad turns off the viewport when you copy it. I had copied and pasted before and thought it didn't work. I just needed to turn the viewport on.
ccowgill
2009-05-29, 03:17 PM
I searched to find this and a big thanks to irneb. I can't believe that AutoCad turns off the viewport when you copy it. I had copied and pasted before and thought it didn't work. I just needed to turn the viewport on.
I believe they fixed that, if not in 2009, definitely in 2010.