Viewport Crops

If you work with viewports, you know that if you want to make a viewport crop object invisible, you have to right-click on the viewport, select Edit Crop from the menu, select the crop object, and then finally assign the object a lineweight of zero. If you only have a few viewports, this process isn't entirely cumbersome; however, if you have multiple sheet layers with multiple viewports on each sheet layer, this method is too time-consuming and inefficient.

It's a repetitive task changing the visibility of viewport crops individually.

Enter the Resolve solution to viewport crop object visibility. You should create a class, perhaps "viewport crops", that you will use when you draw your viewport crop objects. Now, when you want to toggle the visibilty of viewport crops on your sheet layers, you can custom select all viewports in the document and turn the "viewport crop" class on or off for the selected viewports in the Object Info palette.

Using the Custom Selection command to select all viewports.

To even further simplify this process, we’ve added a custom menu command that toggles the "viewport crops" class on and off across all viewports in the active document. This is a simple and effective way of managing a potential workflow slow-down and is now a standard feature in many of our clients’ customized VectorWorks systems.