Clip a viewport border

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Once you have placed view ports on a layout,

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you can clip the layout, viewport objects and reshape the viewport border.

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As you look at the furniture plan layout.

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Suppose you decide that you do not want the

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door included in the viewport in the upper left,

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you can easily clip that viewport to eliminate the door

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on the layout ribbon

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in the layout. Viewport panel, click the clip tool.

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The program prompts you to select the viewport to clip,

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select the viewport border.

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Now the prompt says select clipping object or polygonal

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press enter to select the polygonal option.

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The program prompts you to specify

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a start point.

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You are going to create a closed boundary around the

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portion of the view geometry that you want to keep

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toggle on object snap and select the upper left corner of the existing viewport.

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Then move the cursor to the right and select a point on

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the border just to the left of the left door jam,

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then track straight down

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and select a point on the lower border of the viewport.

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Then select the lower left corner of the viewport

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finally,

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right click and choose close to create a closed boundary and end the command,

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the Viewport border changes. And the viewport now includes only the desk and chair.

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Of course,

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this example is somewhat trivial since you

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can always select the Viewport border and then

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use the grip on the right border to stretch the viewport to the right,

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thus enlarging the viewport so that it once again includes the door.