

This presents a definite lack of uniformity between Microsoft Office applications and, as we can attest, can be a source of confusion, as it was for us. As such, the error appears to have been our own and one of confusing the Word interface with the Excel interface. Microsoft Excel 'Table Tools' section on the ribbon.

Unfortunately, the 'Layout' tab seems to be absent from the

Microsoft Word, the 'Table Tools' context section on the ribbon,ĭOES have tabs for both 'Design' and 'Layout'. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.I think we have identified the source of confusion, which may be helpful to others also. AutoLISP: Replace Selected Points with BlockĮrror: Twitter did not respond.DVIEW with a Twist: Rotating a Viewport View.Check to see if any of these have been changed in your viewport, especially “VP Freeze” They should have a “VP” prefix before them like “VP Color”. With both the viewport active and the Layer Properties palette open, scroll over to the right of the Layer Properties palette and you should now see more options than you would if you didn’t have a viewport active. Then open the Layer Properties dialog palette (command alias LA). To check to see if there any overrides, go to the layout tab and viewport where the override is and then double click inside the viewport to activate it. You can make the layer not show (as I think this is what you are dealing with) and also change the color, lineweight, linetype…) If you do not want these overrides, try using the command/system variable VPLAYEROVERRIDESMODE to 0 (zero).

It sounds like you have a “Viewport Layer Override” This is where you can control a layer’s properties within that single viewport. Autodesk has made some great improvements in regards to model documentation which is found in this tab. I will show more of the features of the new “Layout” tab of the ribbon in future posts. Previously found by right-clicking a layout tab, creating a layout tab from scratch or from a template is found in the ribbon.Ĭreating new Viewports is found in the “Layout Viewports” panelĭont forget that the command alias MV lets you quickly pick 2 points and easily create a viewport. Shown below: New Layout tab with Paper Space activeĪll of the old functions (prior to 2013) are available in this new tab. Shown below: New layout tab with Model Space active This tab of the ribbon displays differently depending on whether Model Space or Paper Space is active. In AutoCAD 2013, you now have a new tab on the ribbon called “Layout” (Shown below). With the new addition of the panel in the “View” tab that only pertains to Model Space viewports, you might want to know where to set your Paper Space viewports.
