Viewports

User interface

You edit your model in viewports. Here, you create or modify the design entities you need. While doing so, you identity distinctive points and set the view type and view appropriate to the current status of your work.

To maximize the workspace, you can float all viewports freely. If you have a second monitor, you can leave the Allplan application window on one monitor, using it as a "toolbox", while editing your model in the independent viewports you place on the second monitor.

By opening several viewports in parallel and arranging them for your needs, you can display your model using different views, scales and view types. You can set a different view in each viewport. For example, you can display a section, the entire design or an isometric view.

The tools for arranging viewports are on the Window menu. You can also select one of the standard viewport arrangements provided and then modify it to suit your needs.

With the Connected option, you can specify how the viewports interact when they are docked to the Allplan application window.

• If this option is active, the viewports are connected: as soon as you change the size of a viewport, all the other viewports adapt automatically; new viewports are fitted into the arrangement.
• If this option is not active, you can place and resize the viewports independently of each other within the Allplan application window.

What do you want to do?

Set up viewports

Float viewports freely

Place viewports in front of or behind the Allplan application window

Dock viewports to the Allplan application window

Set view type in viewport