Edit All View Ports in Vectorworks

New Classes

When creating new classes in a Vectorworks document you can choose the visibility of this new class in existing ViewPorts. Usually you want new classes to be visible in existing View ports, where as new Layers most likely should be invisible to existing View Ports. That is in the nature of the beast, so to say.
The problem is that you DON’T very often MAKE new classes in a document, the new  classes more often get into a document through copying and pasting objects from other documents. These classes are always set invisible in existing View Ports, against your wish, as I stated earlier, almost always want new classes to be visible in existing View Ports. This means you ALWAYS have to check your View Ports for their Class visibilities either after Copy & Paste or at least prior to printing. Now you don’t have to check this for each and every View Port individually, you can select all your VP’s and change those visibilities at once.

Eye Dropper Tool

You can also use the Eye dropper tool to “suck” the settings from one VP and apply it to others. CHECK THE EYEDROPPERS SETTINGS FIRST, BEFORE APPLYING THEM!!! By default the Eyedroppers settings include copying the Layer visibilities, and we don’t want that!

 

Many Sheets with even more View Ports

What to do when you have many sheet layers and even more ViewPorts?!?!?
What many people seem to forget is that you can access your View Port setting from the Organize dialog. Please allow me to demonstrate that:

- Open your Organize dialog: (Tools menu or through the Classes or Layers buttons in the View bar)

-Select the Viewports you want to change.  (Perhaps sort them first on Layer name for easier selecting)
-Click the Edit… button. This OIP look alike dialog will open:

-Click on Classes… (if you want to change those settings) The next window will open:

Here you can change visibility settings for all selected View Ports at once. The visibility for the class “staal” is left blank as within the selection some View Ports already have this Class set to visible and others don’t. Choosing a visibility here will set them all. Not touching that particular class will not change that difference, while you can still change the visibility for other classes.

Click on OK to apply your choices.

Kind regards,
Gerard