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Hide viewport borders for printing

Turn off the viewport layer and describe why it is best practice to first change the current layer.


Tutorial resources

These downloadable resources will be used to complete this tutorial:


00:04

At this point, you are just about ready to print the drawing,

00:08

but you probably do not want the viewport

00:10

borders themselves to appear in the printed output.

00:15

Since the views

00:16

were created on their own viewport layer,

00:19

you can hide the viewport borders by simply turning that layer off

00:25

when you expand the layer drop down

00:28

and try to toggle that layer off. However,

00:31

you see a dialogue warning that you are about to turn

00:34

off the current layer and asking what you want to do.

00:39

Although you do have the option of turning off the current layer.

00:43

The warning explains that if you do this,

00:46

any new objects you create will not be displayed in

00:49

the drawing until you turn the layer back on.

00:53

The best practice is to make a different layer, the current layer

00:57

and then turn off the layer

01:01

select keep the current layer on,

01:05

then expand the layer drop down and select layer zero to make it the current layer,

01:12

then expand the layer drop down again and toggle off the viewport layer.

01:19

Since that layer is no longer the current layer,

01:22

you no longer see the warning and the viewport borders are no longer visible.

01:28

Switch back to the model tab

01:31

just to assure yourself that you really have not changed any of the model geometry.

01:39

Then switch back to the furniture plan layout,

01:42

which now displays exactly the way you want it to appear when you print this sheet.

Video transcript

00:04

At this point, you are just about ready to print the drawing,

00:08

but you probably do not want the viewport

00:10

borders themselves to appear in the printed output.

00:15

Since the views

00:16

were created on their own viewport layer,

00:19

you can hide the viewport borders by simply turning that layer off

00:25

when you expand the layer drop down

00:28

and try to toggle that layer off. However,

00:31

you see a dialogue warning that you are about to turn

00:34

off the current layer and asking what you want to do.

00:39

Although you do have the option of turning off the current layer.

00:43

The warning explains that if you do this,

00:46

any new objects you create will not be displayed in

00:49

the drawing until you turn the layer back on.

00:53

The best practice is to make a different layer, the current layer

00:57

and then turn off the layer

01:01

select keep the current layer on,

01:05

then expand the layer drop down and select layer zero to make it the current layer,

01:12

then expand the layer drop down again and toggle off the viewport layer.

01:19

Since that layer is no longer the current layer,

01:22

you no longer see the warning and the viewport borders are no longer visible.

01:28

Switch back to the model tab

01:31

just to assure yourself that you really have not changed any of the model geometry.

01:39

Then switch back to the furniture plan layout,

01:42

which now displays exactly the way you want it to appear when you print this sheet.

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