How do you make an irregular shaped viewport in Autocad?

How do you make an irregular shaped viewport?

Just use a polyline, make your irregular shape, make sure the pline is closed and invoke MV (mview) command, select Object from the command line and select your irregular shape.

How do I create a custom shape viewport in Autocad?

To Create a Nonrectangular Layout Viewport

1. Click View > Viewports > Polygonal viewport.
2. Specify points to create a nonrectangular layout viewport. …
3. Click View > Viewports > Object.
4. Select a closed object, such as a circle or closed polyline created in paper space, to convert into a layout viewport.

How do I change the shape of a viewport in Autocad?

You can also select the viewport, right click, select ‘Viewport Clip’ (runs VPclip), then choose Polygonal and draw in the new shape of the viewport.

How do you draw irregular shapes in Autocad?

To create irregular polygons, use the mpolygon command.

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To Create Polygon Objects

1. Click Home tab Draw panel Polygon.
2. Enter an integer to specify the number of sides for the polygon.
3. Follow the command prompts to specify either the polygon center (default) or the first edge.

What is viewport Autocad?

Layout viewports are objects that display views of model space. You create, scale, and place them in paper space on a layout. On each layout, you can create one or more layout viewports. Each layout viewport is like a closed circuit TV monitor of a view of the model at a scale and orientation that you specify.

How do you create a viewport in Paperspace?

Creating viewports in a layout

1. Click the Paper Space Views tool button ( ) on the Views toolbar.
2. Choose Paper Space Views in the Views menu.
3. Type mview at the command prompt, then press Enter.

What is Mview in Autocad?

MVIEW (Command) Corner of viewport, opposite corner. Specifies the first corner of a rectangular viewport followed by a diagonal corner.

How do I change the viewport shape?

Redefine a layout viewport boundary

1. Click a layout tab.
2. Click Layout tab Layout Viewports panel Clip. …
3. Select either an existing object to designate as the new viewport boundary, or specify the points of a new boundary. …
4. Click OK.

How do I resize a viewport in AutoCAD?

Video Tutorial

1. Click the frame of the main viewport once to select it.
2. Drag the blue squares to resize the viewport.
3. Click again to set the new size. …
4. To move an adjacent arrows after you resize the viewport, click the arrow once to select it.

How do you customize a viewport?

The prompts are the same as the prompts for creating a polyline.

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To Create a Nonrectangular Layout Viewport

1. If necessary, click a layout tab.
2. Set the current layer to a layer that’s reserved for layout viewports (recommended). …
3. Click Layout tab Layout Viewports panel Rectangular, Polygonal, or Object.
4. Follow the prompts.