Learn about creating a no-plot view for a full-size image with all the necessary components including the title block and drawing title. The article meticulously guides you through every step of the process, from creating a viewport to verifying perfect registration of all elements.
Key Insights
- The process of creating a no-plot view begins with working on a drawing that includes all components like the title block and drawing title. The viewport created will be within the area marked by two specific corners on the drawing.
- The title block and drawing title are brought in as XREFs from the Insert tab. After being used for reference, these components are detached to leave behind the no-plot view. The base point of the drawing is set at 0, 0 and the no-plot view is moved so that its centroid matches these coordinates.
- The last steps involve offsetting lines by certain measurements to ensure proper alignment and registration. Once these steps are completed, the no-plot view can be tested by inserting it into the working drawing and aligning it to confirm perfect registration.
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It's now time to start working on our no-plot view for a full-size image. Right now, I'm in my Working 1 drawing, and you can see all of the components. We have the title block in there, and we have the drawing title in there.
So what's going to happen is that the viewport that we're going to be creating will be within the area from that corner to that corner. So let's begin. Let's go File, New.
Let's use our template, and let's save the file with the name No-Plot View Full. Replace the file. Now, while we're working on the no-plot view, once again, we need to bring the components in so we can figure out what we need to do.
And I'm going to bring in the title block and the drawing title as XREFs so I can do my stuff. So I'm on the Insert tab. I will say Reference Attach.
I'm going to first bring in my title block. I'll bring it in at 0,0, scale factor of 1. Zoom extends. Zoom real time.
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And again, I'm going to reference attach in the drawing title. Yes, I know that we typically need to insert it to fill in the attributes, but what we're trying to do is to simply bring in the geometry. So Reference Attach.
I'm going to slide down, and I will choose my VDCI drawing title 1. This time, I'm going to say Specify Insertion Point on Screen. Go OK, and I will bring it in at the end of this line right down here. Now I have the area that I'm going to be needing to work in.
I will go to the Home tab. I'll go to Layers. I will make the no-plot my current layer, and I will draw a rectangle from the end of here to the end of there.
So you can see in the magenta, that is my actual no-plot. I no longer need to have my title block or my drawing title in there, so I'm going to detach them. Go to the Insert tab.
Go to the XRef Manager. My drawing title 1, right-button detach. 22 × 34, right-button detach.
Now everything is gone. Now, the base point of the drawing, I typed the word Base, is 0,0. If I draw a line from 0,0, you can see that it's coming in from down here. So what I need to do is I need to move my no-plot view so that the centroid of the no-plot view is at 0,0. So I'm going to go to the Home tab.
Go to Line from Corner to Corner. And I'm going to say Move, do a crossing, enter to say I'm done, from the midpoint of the centroid to 0,0. Zoom extends, zoom real-time, save the file. Because again, typically when we bring in the no-plot view, we're bringing it in from the centroid.
I will go to Erase and get rid of the line. Now it's time to do some offsetting. So I will offset by half an inch this line and go in.
I'm going to offset it four more times. Go into Offset, 0.25,2, 3,4. Control-S, Save. So again, I have a half-inch gap from the outside to the first line and then a quarter of an inch between all of the others.
So zoom extends, zoom real-time, save the file. If I want to confirm that everything fits, I can go into my working drawing. And again, I know that I would normally insert it, but I'm simply testing it to make sure that it works.
So Insert, Reference Attach. I can go into my no-plot view full, specify on screen OK. I'm purposely putting it in an illogical place.
Go to Home tab. I'm going to erase out these lines. And I'm now going to move this from the corner of here to the corner of here.
You can see that there's perfect registration on top of everything. Now we have all of the components that we need for a sheet that will have one view with one viewport.
