Setting up a Viewport

To create a new Viewport on a Sheet Layer, select View -> Create Viewport… near the bottom of the pulldown. In the new dialog box, fill in the Name: box with the label exactly as you want it to appear on the drawing tag. The drawing tag will be in caps if the Name: box is in caps.

Next, select the sheet layer you want the viewport to appear on in the Create on Layer: pulldown. This pull down has all available layers listed in it.

Pick the layer you want to be showing by clicking the Layers: button. The next pulldown, Scale:, lets you select the scale you want. The View: pulldown allows you to choose a view for your viewport. For a plan, you want Top/Plan and so on.

The Rendering: pulldown lists modes for rendering the viewport. Wireframe is used for Top/Plan views while Hidden Line is used for elevations of a modeled building. The Projection: pulldown should bet set to 2D for everything that isn’t an artistic rendering. 

Click OK and the viewport is created.

One final step is to set the viewport to black and white to ready it for printing. This may be done now, but I usually choose to wait to do this when I am ready to print. You can select all the viewports on the sheet at once, so it doesn’t save time to do it now or later. To change a viewport to black and white, select the viewport(s) and go to the Object Info palette. At the bottom, click the Advanced Properties… button and check the Black and White Only box and click OK.