Viewports behaving badly

[cchallis]

Hi Team,

I have an odd issue that has popped up since installing 2013. I have design suite premium however im specifically experiencing this in ASD 2013. If i dont lock a view port on any sheet in any drawing file, the scale of any un-locked viewport resets itself to "zoom all" in model space through the port. thus destroying my view. I do generally lock my vps however thats not always what i want and its a real pain when you run a publish set and suddenly a whole bunch of your vps have reset themselfs.
Is there a system varible that controls this? it seems bizar that there would be or that it would have changed when installing 2013.

If anyone can shed some light on this thatd be great.
Please see this video below of my problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbLt3...ature=youtu.be

Note the big VP is locked and the small one with the noth arrow is unlocked.

Cheers
Corey

[jpo82]

I have had similar issues in ASD 2012 and for me it worked when I changed UCSFOLLOW to 0 while I adjusted viewports.

[StDoodle]

I've had this issue off-and-on myself since 2008, and also fixed it by setting UCSFOLLOW = 0. If you happen to be using the Sheet Set Manager (or some other method that involves separation of layouts-to-plot from model space work and automatic layout view generation), it's simple enough to set it as such in your layout templates and not have to deal with it again. Otherwise... blech.

[cchallis]

Hi team, thanks for that info, sadly i had already changed the UCSFOLLOW sys variable to 0 and it makes no difference. thanks for your input though guys

[Richard McDonald]

Hi team, thanks for that info, sadly i had already changed the UCSFOLLOW sys variable to 0 and it makes no difference. thanks for your input though guys

Have you done this in each and every Vport.

The ucsfollow setvar is linked to the vport and not the drawing.

Regards

[irneb]

Have you done this in each and every Vport.

The ucsfollow setvar is linked to the vport and not the drawing.

Regards

Yes this is not a quick-fix once-off instruction. Go inside the VPort (i.e. double-click into it) from Paper Space. Then change UcsFollow=0. Re-adjust the viewport to what it should be showing (zoom/pan/twist/etc.). Go back to PS then repeat for each viewport, and repeat the same process for each sheet in each DWG. The reason this happened is because UcsFollow was set to 1 when the viewports were created, in the future ensure it is set to 0 so you don't run into this trouble again.

And if you have to adjust a viewport to a new UCS, don't make use of the UcsFollow. Rather use the PLAN command and leave UcsFollow=0. That way you won't forget to change it back by accident.

[Richard McDonald]

Rather use the PLAN command and leave UcsFollow=0. That way you won't forget to change it back by accident.

I guess I've got stuck in my ways. PLAN seems to be a better alternative to the way I work now and it will be a hell of alot easier to teach other people How To with it.

Many thanks