Align viewports

[rhayes.99001]

I have a over all base building plan with column grid marks
I want to show and detail one room and still have the column
marks show. I do this by making a viewport just for the column marks
my Question is.? Is there an easy way to Align the 2 view ports and still
keep the window zoomed into the correct room I need.???
If you use the Express Alignspaces it changes the zoom of the viewport
I want to keep.???

[david_peterson]

You can always go back to thinking in 2d. If you need to align the col grid bub with a col grid line in a different view port, just move the view port with the quad of the grid bub as the base point in pspace and "Manually" align with the said col grid in room view port at say the col intersection, then just move the gird bub vport orthag until it's far enough away. Unfortunately I don't know the "easy" way to make this one happen.

[cholmes]

The easiest way I have found is this...
Ok, first you have the viewport that has the room in it that you what to show, at the proper scale, etc.
Next, I copy that viewport over, or up, or whatever (whereever you are showing the bubbles.) This will be the view port for your bubbles.
Next, unlock it if it isn't already, and then go into it, and pan until you get to the bubbles. If you hold shift when using the mouse button for your pan, it will lock it in an orthagonal direction.
Get it to where you need it, and lock it again. If all goes well, you should have two viewports perfectly lined up.

Another way that works well too, is to increase (stretch) the size of the second viewport you created until you get your objects in view. Then move it orthagonally into place, and resize it to hide the other stuff.

I prefer the first method, but both work equally well.

Hopefully this all makes sense!

[dkoch]

I am not familiar with that particular Express Tool, but you could always use the Align option of the MVSETUP command [assuming that is still available in 2005 - it is in 2004].

I tend to be a little more anal retentive than most, and, for main drawings, will mock up polylines in model space of the various parts I want to include, create named views of those parts, then draw viewports of those parts, scaled down to the appropriate size and finally restore the named view within each viewport. For small sketches, I have been known to just draw the column bubbles in paper space.