Vectorworks “viewport” objects allow the creation of views from several directions, complete with details, annotations, dimensions, and title blocks. Viewports can show other parts of the active document, or even portions of other documents.
Viewports can display entire as well as cropped views of a drawing, with specified layer and class visibility settings, projection, render mode, and orientation parameters. If the drawing changes, the viewports can be easily updated to reflect the changes.
In both Vectorworks Fundamentals and Vectorworks Design Series, you can create one or more viewports on a sheet layer, and each viewport can show one or more design layers from this document. Additionally, Vectorworks Design Series allows you to create one or more viewports on a design layer, and the design layers shown in the viewports can be either from this document, or referenced from another document. For details about design layer viewports, see
Presenting Drawings with Design Layer Viewports.