Polygonal Viewport

CAD drafting Polygonal Viewport 0 Ribbon: Layout – Layout Viewports > CAD software Polygonal Viewport 1 Polygonal Viewport (The Layout tab only appears when you are in paper space)

CAD drawing Polygonal Viewport 2 Menu: View – ViewPorts > CAD drafting Polygonal Viewport 3 Polygonal

CAD software Polygonal Viewport 4 Menu: Insert – ViewPorts in Layout > CAD drawing Polygonal Viewport 5 Polygonal

CAD drafting Polygonal Viewport 6 Toolbar: Layout – CAD software Polygonal Viewport 7

CAD drawing Polygonal Viewport 8 Toolbar: Viewports – CAD drafting Polygonal Viewport 9

CAD software Polygonal Viewport 10 Command line: ADDPOLYGONVIEWPORT

nanoCAD allows use of this command on the current layout tab in which the viewport should be located, as well as directly from the model space.

Create a polygonal viewport from the model space

When you create a viewport from the model space, specify the vertex points of the polygonal area of the drawing (in the model space) that should be displayed in the viewport.

ADDPOLYGONVIEWPORT command options

Description

Undo

Consistently undo the specified points of the polygonal area.

The start point cannot be undone.

Command prompts:

ADDPOLYGONVIEWPORT command prompts	Description
Specify start point:	Specify the start point of the polygonal vertex.
Specify next point or [Undo]:	Specify the second point of the polygonal vertex.
...	...
Specify next point or [Undo]:	Specify the end point of the polygonal vertex and press ENTER. Select the name of layout in Select Layout dialog to insert a viewport and press OK button. Active before running of command layout is highlighted in the layout list.
Input or choose view scale <Paper><1.000000>:	Input the viewport scale.
Specify Viewport Center Point:	Specify the viewport center point.

Create a polygonal viewport from a layout

ADDPOLYGONVIEWPORT command options	Description
Undo	Consistently undoes the specified points of the polygonal area. The start point cannot be undone.
Extent	Displays all objects from the model space in the viewport.
Active<0.000831>	Displays the current view of the model space in the viewport.
Paper<1.000000>	Sets the viewport scale corresponding to the layout scale.

ADDPOLYGONVIEWPORT command prompts	Description
Specify start point:	Specify the start point of the polygonal vertex.
Specify next point or [Undo]:	Specify the second point of the polygonal vertex.
...	...
Specify next point or [Undo]:	Specify the end point of the polygonal vertex and press ENTER.
Input or choose view scale <Paper> or [Extents/Active<0.000831>/Paper<1.000000>]:	Input the viewport scale or select the required option.

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