Messages about paper space

Messages appear in the status bar at the bottom, as a tooltip at the pointer or as a browser prompt. The texts are reproduced as the program shows them; placeholders such as n or name stand for the respective value.

Sheets#

Layout name:#

Prompt after double-clicking a sheet tab. The name entered appears in the tab; an empty name is not accepted.

Delete layout “name” permanently? All sheet elements of this layout will be lost (cannot be undone).#

Prompt from “Delete layout” in the “Page setup” dialog. Note: Undo will not help afterwards. Remedy: save first.

Layout deleted#

Status bar after the confirmation. If the sheet was open, the program is now in model space.

· n sheet(s) imported#

Part of the message when importing a drawing — the sheets of the foreign file were appended.

Creating a viewport#

New viewport: click the first corner on the sheet (Escape cancels)#

Status bar after “🗔 Draw new viewport”.

Click the opposite corner#

Status bar after the first click; the blue frame follows the mouse.

Viewport too small — cancelled#

Status bar when width or height is below 5 mm. Remedy: draw it larger.

Cancelled#

Status bar after Esc or the right mouse button while drawing.

Viewport created — scale 1:n#

Status bar after the second click. The scale is the next standard scale that takes in the whole model.

Working with a viewport#

Viewport: click = select (then movable) · drag = selection box · double-click = pan/zoom the model through the viewport · right-click = scale and options#

Tooltip at the pointer over an unselected viewport.

Selected viewport: drag = move · corners = size · double-click = pan/zoom the model through the viewport · right-click = scale and options#

Tooltip over the selected (blue) viewport.

Active viewport: drag moves the model view, mouse wheel changes the scale — double-click outside finishes#

Tooltip over the active (orange) viewport.

Model through the window: drag pans the view, mouse wheel changes the scale — double-click outside to finish#

Status bar when a viewport is activated (double-click or “Edit”).

Viewport selected — drag to move, the corner grips resize#

Brief hint at the pointer after a viewport has been selected by its frame.

Viewport selected — drag to move it#

Status bar after “✥ Move”.

Viewport selected — drag a corner grip to resize#

Status bar after “⤡ Resize (corner grips)”.

Viewport is locked — right-click opens its settings#

Status bar on a double-click, “Edit”, “Move” or “Resize” at a locked viewport. Remedy: right-click → “🔓 Unlock”.

Viewport locked / Viewport unlocked#

Status bar after “🔒 Lock” or “🔓 Unlock”.

Through-hatch selected — not the viewport. Click the frame to select the viewport#

Brief hint when a hatch fills the viewport area. Remedy: click the viewport frame.

Scale and view#

View fitted — scale 1:n#

Status bar after “⤢ Fit to contents”.

Nothing to fit#

Status bar with an empty model. Remedy: draw something in model space first.

Viewport scale 1:n: set the model reference scale for line type patterns to 1:n as well? This makes the MODEL show the same patterns as this viewport. The viewport image itself stays unchanged — through the viewport paper sizes apply (true to print).#

Prompt after setting a viewport scale when the drawing carries special line types and the scales differ. “OK” adjusts the model’s reference scale so that model and viewport show the same pattern; the viewport image itself stays unchanged. Free zooming with the wheel never asks.

Model reference scale set to 1:n#

Status bar after “OK” on the prompt above.

Outside the viewport — point reset#

Status bar when the second point of a through-dimension lies outside the viewport. Remedy: put both points inside the same viewport.

Model value through viewport / Model values through viewport#

Note in the “Edit dimension” dialog: the dimension shows the model’s value, not the paper distance (Dimensions in viewports).

Copying and deleting viewports#

Viewport copied#

Status bar after “⧉ Copy” in the menu or in the “Viewport” dialog.

Viewport deleted#

Status bar after “🗑 Delete” in the menu. The through-hatches and through-dimensions of that viewport go with it.

Viewport deleted — Undo restores it#

Status bar after “Delete” in the “Viewport” dialog.

The viewport of this through-hatch no longer exists#

Status bar when a hatch has lost its viewport. Remedy: undo, or delete the hatch and create it again.

No closed area found in the viewport#

Status bar when hatching through a viewport without a closed contour (Hatching in a viewport).

Hatch created in the viewport: pattern#

Status bar after a successful through-hatch.

Frame and title block#

Frame and title block inserted — n elements (freely editable)#

Status bar after “🗒 Insert frame + title block”. Every element can be changed individually.

Active layer is locked/hidden — frame and title block inserted on layer “name”#

Status bar when the active layer could not be written to. Remedy: move the elements to the layer you want afterwards (“Properties” panel).