Discover how to split your screen into quarters for improved workflows and efficiency. Learn the intricacies of adjusting drawing titles and viewport sizes to accommodate new configurations.
Key Insights
- Splitting the screen into quarters involves adjusting and accounting for the space occupied by drawing titles. An additional half-inch is typically needed when the number of viewports increases.
- The process begins with opening the NoPlotView, vertical 1 over 2 file, and then saving it as NoPlotView, quarter size. A guideline is then moved to create the correct space for the drawing title.
- After verifying the base point's correct coordinates, the quarter size view is inserted into the Working 1 drawing. Attention is given to the no plot view area being centroid due to its positioning around the model, offering improved alignment for quarter-sized viewports.
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We've just completed working on a configuration for two vertical viewports, but there are other occasions when we need to split the screen into four quarters. I'd like to bring this to your attention. In the two vertical viewports, we have one drawing title down here, and a viewport that takes up the rest of the vertical space.
When we look at splitting the screen into quarters, we have a drawing title here, and another drawing title here. So, when we end up splitting the viewports into quarter sizes, we're going to have to take into consideration the fact that we have an additional half of an inch being occupied by the drawing titles. So, let's begin by going File, Open, and let's open our NoPlotView, vertical 1 over 2. And let's go File, Save As, and let's save it as NoPlotView, quarter size.
Now, if I were to draw a line from the mid of the top to the mid of the bottom, you can see that we have a line from the mid to the mid. I'm going to move it over to the right with Ortho on, but what I know is to split this correctly so that I have room for the drawing title, I'm going to take this guideline with Ortho on and shrink it by a half an inch. Now that I've shrunk it, I'm going to draw a line from the mid of here over to the left because, again, my tops are lining up.
I have accommodated for the extra drawing title area by shrinking it by a half an inch, and I will say Stretch Crossing from the end of here to the intersection of here. I can now erase these lines. I need to position it relative to the base point, so I will draw a line from the end of the top left to the end of the bottom right, and I will now say Move Crossing, Enter, from the mid of the diagonal line down to 0,0. I'm going to type the command Base to confirm that my base point is 0,0. I will now erase out this line, and I will save the file.
Now, let's double check and make sure that it's all working. I'm going to go into my Working 1 drawing, and I'm going to erase out the viewport and the drawing title 0,1. I will begin by inserting, go to Browse, my VDCI drawing title 2. Specify insertion point on screen at the bottom left right there. Now, you can see it disappeared.
Look at the command prompt, and it's asking me about my attributes. I will now insert the quarter size no plot view. Insert the block, go to Browse, no plot view quarter, specify insertion point on screen, and I put it there.
Now, just realize the fact that we typically are more concerned with the no plot view area being centered, because we're going to be putting it around a model. I'm not worried about the fact that there doesn't seem to make a lot of sense with the base point relative to the insertion, because I normally don't worry about this concern. So, I'm now going to move from the end of here to the end of here.
I will now say copy these guys from the end at the bottom to the end at the top, and then copy crossing from here over to there. So, you can see that we were correct. By accommodating that extra half an inch, we have perfect alignment and registration for our quarter sized viewports.
So, we have a couple more configurations to do. I hope it's making sense, and I hope you're having a good time.