diff --git a/src/app/commands/layers.rs b/src/app/commands/layers.rs
index a0220654..9dfc1e77 100644
--- a/src/app/commands/layers.rs
+++ b/src/app/commands/layers.rs
@@ -827,30 +827,8 @@ impl OpenCADStudio {
             }
         }
 
-        // A viewport frames the model, so its framing is measured in model
-        // units and has to follow them. Left alone, every layout would suddenly
-        // look at a region a thousand times too large. The paper side of the
-        // ratio is untouched — the sheet is still the same sheet — so the ratio
-        // itself moves the other way.
-        //
-        // `transform_viewport` covers the rectangle and the target but not the
-        // framing, so the framing is done here for every viewport, and the
-        // target only for the ones the scale above did not already reach.
-        // Not every viewport frames the model, though. Each layout's sheet
-        // viewport frames the sheet — its view is the paper, measured in paper
-        // units — so scaling it by the model's factor would leave the drawing
-        // frame the same size as before while the view of it changed by a
-        // thousand, which is the boundary appearing to break.
-        let sheets: std::collections::HashSet<acadrust::Handle> = self.tabs[i]
-            .scene
-            .document
-            .objects
-            .values()
-            .filter_map(|object| match object {
-                acadrust::objects::ObjectType::Layout(layout) => Some(layout.viewport),
-                _ => None,
-            })
-            .collect();
+        // Model framing follows model units; sheet framing stays in paper units.
+        let sheets = self.tabs[i].scene.sheet_viewport_handles();
         let scaled: std::collections::HashSet<acadrust::Handle> = handles.iter().copied().collect();
         let mut reframed = 0usize;
         for entity in self.tabs[i].scene.document.entities_mut() {
@@ -858,14 +836,7 @@ impl OpenCADStudio {
             let acadrust::entities::EntityType::Viewport(vp) = entity else {
                 continue;
             };
-            // Only a paper-space viewport can be a sheet — the scale above
-            // reached everything in model space, and what it reached frames the
-            // model by definition. Among the rest, the layout names its sheet
-            // outright, and a file that arrives without that link still gives
-            // itself away by sitting at the paper origin, where only the sheet
-            // sits.
-            let is_sheet = !scaled.contains(&handle)
-                && (sheets.contains(&handle) || !crate::scene::Scene::is_content_viewport(vp));
+            let is_sheet = !scaled.contains(&handle) && sheets.contains(&handle);
             if is_sheet {
                 continue;
             }
diff --git a/src/app/update/file.rs b/src/app/update/file.rs
index 1f77d4bf..bbf906ea 100644
--- a/src/app/update/file.rs
+++ b/src/app/update/file.rs
@@ -204,7 +204,14 @@ fn plot_scene_content(
                 || !crate::scene::Scene::handle_from_wire_name(&wire.name)
                     .and_then(|handle| scene.document.get_entity(handle))
                     .is_some_and(|entity| {
-                        matches!(entity, acadrust::EntityType::Viewport(viewport) if crate::scene::Scene::is_content_viewport(viewport))
+                        matches!(
+                            entity,
+                            acadrust::EntityType::Viewport(viewport)
+                                if !crate::scene::Scene::is_sheet_viewport(
+                                    &scene.document,
+                                    viewport,
+                                )
+                        )
                     }))
     });
     model_wires.retain(|wire| wire.plot_visible);
diff --git a/src/app/update/viewport.rs b/src/app/update/viewport.rs
index a527895b..34eddd24 100644
--- a/src/app/update/viewport.rs
+++ b/src/app/update/viewport.rs
@@ -4620,7 +4620,10 @@ impl OpenCADStudio {
                     if let Some(AcadEntityType::Viewport(vp)) =
                         self.tabs[i].scene.document.get_entity(h)
                     {
-                        if Scene::is_content_viewport(vp) {
+                        if !Scene::is_sheet_viewport(
+                            &self.tabs[i].scene.document,
+                            vp,
+                        ) {
                             Some(h)
                         } else {
                             None
diff --git a/src/scene/convert/tess.rs b/src/scene/convert/tess.rs
index d249f80b..dfc58a1d 100644
--- a/src/scene/convert/tess.rs
+++ b/src/scene/convert/tess.rs
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ fn tessellate_entity_inner(
     if let EntityType::Viewport(vp) = e {
         // The sheet viewport (overall/id=1) is never shown — it represents the
         // paper boundary, not a user-defined content window.
-        if !Scene::is_content_viewport(vp) {
+        if Scene::is_sheet_viewport(document, vp) {
             return vec![];
         }
         let is_active = active_viewport == Some(h);
diff --git a/src/scene/convert/tessellate.rs b/src/scene/convert/tessellate.rs
index d474c5f1..c6e5d34a 100644
--- a/src/scene/convert/tessellate.rs
+++ b/src/scene/convert/tessellate.rs
@@ -1718,24 +1718,9 @@ pub fn tessellate(
     // f64 for the WireModel's double-single-era snap buffer.
     let snap_pts: Vec<(glam::DVec3, SnapHint)> =
         snap_pts.into_iter().map(|(p, h)| (p.as_dvec3(), h)).collect();
-    // A paper-space viewport is a window, not a wireframe: give it an interior
-    // pick surface so a click anywhere inside the frame selects it. Ranked
-    // below edge and fill hits, so content drawn inside still wins the click.
-    // The sheet ("overall") viewport is the layout's own invisible camera
-    // frame covering the whole page — never pickable, or it would swallow
-    // every click over the real viewports beneath it. It is identified by the
-    // Layout object's viewport link (authoritative — DWG files carry id = 0
-    // and this file class centres the sheet viewport off-origin, so neither
-    // the id nor the geometry heuristic alone is reliable), with
-    // `is_content_viewport` as the fallback classifier.
-    let is_sheet_vp = |vp: &acadrust::entities::Viewport| {
-        let h = vp.common.handle;
-        document.objects.values().any(|obj| {
-            matches!(obj, acadrust::objects::ObjectType::Layout(l) if l.viewport == h)
-        }) || !crate::scene::Scene::is_content_viewport(vp)
-    };
+    // Paper viewports are pickable inside their frames; the sheet viewport is not.
     let (pick_tris, pick_tris_low) = match entity {
-        EntityType::Viewport(vp) if !is_sheet_vp(vp) => {
+        EntityType::Viewport(vp) if !crate::scene::Scene::is_sheet_viewport(document, vp) => {
             if let Some(polygon) = clipped_viewport_polygon.as_ref() {
                 points_to_ds(crate::entities::mesh::triangulate_planar(polygon))
             } else {
diff --git a/src/scene/mod.rs b/src/scene/mod.rs
index 313058bc..37c3f209 100644
--- a/src/scene/mod.rs
+++ b/src/scene/mod.rs
@@ -2998,32 +2998,96 @@ impl Scene {
         crate::io::set_saved_active_layout(&mut self.document, &self.current_layout);
     }
 
-    /// Returns true if this viewport should display model-space content
-    /// (i.e. it is a user viewport, not the sheet/overall viewport).
-    ///
-    /// Rules:
-    /// - id=1  → always the sheet viewport → false
-    /// - id≥2  → always a user viewport    → true
-    /// - id=0 or id<0 (DWG reader omits the id; some DXF exporters write -1):
-    ///   use geometry: the sheet viewport is centred at the paper origin (0,0)
-    ///   with scale≈1.0 (view_height ≈ paper-space height).
-    pub fn is_content_viewport(vp: &acadrust::entities::Viewport) -> bool {
-        if vp.id == 1 {
-            return false;
+    pub(crate) fn layout_sheet_viewport_handle(
+        document: &acadrust::CadDocument,
+        layout: &acadrust::objects::Layout,
+    ) -> Handle {
+        let owned_viewport = |handle| match document.get_entity(handle) {
+            Some(EntityType::Viewport(vp)) if vp.common.owner_handle == layout.block_record => {
+                Some(vp)
+            }
+            _ => None,
+        };
+
+        let listed = layout
+            .viewports
+            .iter()
+            .copied()
+            .filter_map(|handle| owned_viewport(handle).map(|vp| (handle, vp)));
+        if let Some((handle, _)) = listed.clone().find(|(_, vp)| vp.id == 1) {
+            return handle;
         }
-        if vp.id > 1 {
+        if let Some((handle, _)) = listed.into_iter().next() {
+            return handle;
+        }
+
+        let block_handles = document
+            .block_records
+            .iter()
+            .find(|block| block.handle == layout.block_record)
+            .map(|block| block.entity_handles.as_slice())
+            .unwrap_or_default();
+        let block_viewports = block_handles
+            .iter()
+            .copied()
+            .filter_map(|handle| owned_viewport(handle).map(|vp| (handle, vp)));
+        if let Some((handle, _)) = block_viewports.clone().find(|(_, vp)| vp.id == 1) {
+            return handle;
+        }
+        if let Some((handle, _)) = block_viewports.into_iter().next() {
+            return handle;
+        }
+
+        document
+            .entities()
+            .filter_map(|entity| match entity {
+                EntityType::Viewport(vp) if vp.common.owner_handle == layout.block_record => {
+                    Some((
+                        vp.common.handle,
+                        vp.id == 1,
+                        vp.width.abs() * vp.height.abs(),
+                    ))
+                }
+                _ => None,
+            })
+            .max_by(|a, b| a.1.cmp(&b.1).then_with(|| a.2.total_cmp(&b.2)))
+            .map(|(handle, _, _)| handle)
+            .unwrap_or(Handle::NULL)
+    }
+
+    pub(crate) fn is_sheet_viewport(
+        document: &acadrust::CadDocument,
+        vp: &acadrust::entities::Viewport,
+    ) -> bool {
+        if vp.id == 1 {
             return true;
         }
-        // id ≤ 0: DWG files never write group-code 69 (viewport id), so all
-        // viewports arrive with id=0.
-        //
-        // In DWG format the sheet ("overall") viewport always has its center at
-        // the paper-space origin (0, 0). Content viewports are placed at their
-        // actual position on the paper and therefore have a non-zero center.
-        // Using center position is more reliable than a scale heuristic because
-        // the sheet viewport's scale is not always exactly 1:1 (observed: 0.8965
-        // in real-world files, which the old 0.02 tolerance missed entirely).
-        vp.center.x.abs() >= 0.5 || vp.center.y.abs() >= 0.5
+        if vp.id > 1 {
+            return false;
+        }
+        document.objects.values().any(|object| {
+            matches!(
+                object,
+                ObjectType::Layout(layout)
+                    if layout.block_record == vp.common.owner_handle
+                        && Self::layout_sheet_viewport_handle(document, layout)
+                            == vp.common.handle
+            )
+        })
+    }
+
+    pub(crate) fn sheet_viewport_handles(&self) -> std::collections::HashSet<Handle> {
+        self.document
+            .objects
+            .values()
+            .filter_map(|object| match object {
+                ObjectType::Layout(layout) => {
+                    let handle = Self::layout_sheet_viewport_handle(&self.document, layout);
+                    handle.is_valid().then_some(handle)
+                }
+                _ => None,
+            })
+            .collect()
     }
 
     fn current_layout_sheet_viewport_handle(&self) -> Handle {
@@ -3035,7 +3099,7 @@ impl Scene {
                     return None;
                 };
                 if layout.name == self.current_layout {
-                    Some(layout.viewport)
+                    Some(Self::layout_sheet_viewport_handle(&self.document, layout))
                 } else {
                     None
                 }
@@ -3043,82 +3107,49 @@ impl Scene {
             .unwrap_or(Handle::NULL)
     }
 
-    /// Guarantee that a paper layout has its full-screen overall (`id == 1`)
-    /// sheet viewport. `add_layout` creates it; this is a safety net for layouts
-    /// that arrive without it. The sheet
-    /// viewport is the authoritative paper-space view and the canvas every
-    /// floating viewport overlays.
+    /// Ensure a paper layout has its overall (`id == 1`) viewport.
     pub fn ensure_sheet_viewport(&mut self, layout_name: &str) {
         if layout_name == "Model" {
             return;
         }
-        // Locate the layout: its object handle, block-record handle, current
-        // sheet-viewport link, and paper limits.
+        // Locate the layout and its paper limits.
         let info = self.document.objects.iter().find_map(|(h, obj)| {
             if let ObjectType::Layout(l) = obj {
                 if l.name == layout_name {
-                    return Some((*h, l.block_record, l.viewport, l.min_limits, l.max_limits));
+                    return Some((
+                        *h,
+                        l.block_record,
+                        Self::layout_sheet_viewport_handle(&self.document, l),
+                        l.min_limits,
+                        l.max_limits,
+                    ));
                 }
             }
             None
         });
-        let Some((layout_handle, block_record, cur_vp, min_lim, max_lim)) = info else {
+        let Some((layout_handle, block_record, sheet, min_lim, max_lim)) = info else {
             return;
         };
         if block_record.is_null() {
             return;
         }
 
-        // Normal files carry a valid direct Layout→Viewport link. This O(1)
-        // path is hit on every ordinary layout-tab switch.
-        if cur_vp.is_valid()
+        if sheet.is_valid()
             && matches!(
-                self.document.get_entity(cur_vp),
+                self.document.get_entity(sheet),
                 Some(EntityType::Viewport(vp)) if vp.common.owner_handle == block_record
             )
         {
             return;
         }
 
-        // Already present? Accept either the linked viewport handle or any
-        // `id == 1` viewport owned by the layout block.
-        let has_sheet = self.document.entities().any(|e| {
-            matches!(e, EntityType::Viewport(vp)
-                if vp.common.owner_handle == block_record
-                    && (vp.id == 1 || vp.common.handle == cur_vp))
-        });
-        if has_sheet {
-            // Keep the layout's link in sync if it was missing.
-            if !cur_vp.is_valid() {
-                let h = self.document.entities().find_map(|e| match e {
-                    EntityType::Viewport(vp)
-                        if vp.common.owner_handle == block_record && vp.id == 1 =>
-                    {
-                        Some(vp.common.handle)
-                    }
-                    _ => None,
-                });
-                if let Some(h) = h {
-                    if let Some(ObjectType::Layout(l)) =
-                        self.document.objects.get_mut(&layout_handle)
-                    {
-                        l.viewport = h;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            return;
-        }
-
         // Create the full-screen overall viewport covering the paper limits.
         let pw = (max_lim.0 - min_lim.0).abs().max(1.0);
         let ph = (max_lim.1 - min_lim.1).abs().max(1.0);
         let mut vp = acadrust::entities::Viewport::new();
         vp.id = 1;
         vp.status = acadrust::entities::ViewportStatusFlags::default_on();
-        // Paper-space center is a 2D (x, y) point with z = 0. Putting the
-        // paper-height midpoint in z
-        // (with y = 0) left the sheet view centered at y = 0, shifting the whole
-        // layout half a page down. See issue #156.
+        // Paper-space center is an (x, y) point with z = 0.
         vp.center = acadrust::types::Vector3::new(
             (min_lim.0 + max_lim.0) / 2.0,
             (min_lim.1 + max_lim.1) / 2.0,
@@ -3126,12 +3157,7 @@ impl Scene {
         );
         vp.width = pw;
         vp.height = ph;
-        // Frame the new layout on the whole sheet: look straight down at the
-        // paper centre with the visible height a touch taller than the page.
-        // Without this the viewport keeps `Viewport::new`'s default view
-        // (target 0,0 / height 210), so the first time a fresh drawing's
-        // layout is opened the camera sits on the paper's bottom-left corner
-        // instead of centring the sheet.
+        // Frame the full sheet with a small margin.
         vp.view_target = acadrust::types::Vector3::new(
             (min_lim.0 + max_lim.0) / 2.0,
             (min_lim.1 + max_lim.1) / 2.0,
@@ -3144,7 +3170,8 @@ impl Scene {
             .add_entity_to_layout(EntityType::Viewport(vp), layout_name)
         {
             if let Some(ObjectType::Layout(l)) = self.document.objects.get_mut(&layout_handle) {
-                l.viewport = handle;
+                l.viewports.retain(|candidate| *candidate != handle);
+                l.viewports.insert(0, handle);
             }
         }
     }
@@ -3161,7 +3188,7 @@ impl Scene {
         if sheet_handle.is_valid() {
             vp.common.handle != sheet_handle
         } else {
-            Self::is_content_viewport(vp)
+            !Self::is_sheet_viewport(&self.document, vp)
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/scene/paper.rs b/src/scene/paper.rs
index db2a4e76..d7a1d928 100644
--- a/src/scene/paper.rs
+++ b/src/scene/paper.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ impl Scene {
                 && if sheet.is_valid() {
                     handle != sheet
                 } else {
-                    Self::is_content_viewport(vp)
+                    !Self::is_sheet_viewport(&self.document, vp)
                 }
         };
         let content = if let Some(block) = self