topic Re: Adding Custom Views to Tool Palettes in AutoCAD Forum

Adding Custom Views to Tool Palettes

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:50:00 GMT

Jarod Schultz does a class at AU called super duper click savers. In there, he creates hyperlinks to custom views and works off of them in the tool palettes. I can create the custom view but cannot figure out how to add it to the a tool palette. Can anyone help?

Link to video

Re: Adding Custom Views to Tool Palettes

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:46:18 GMT

I found the answer by contacting the presenter. In case of interest, it is a script inside of the tool. If interested let me know, happy to pass it on.

Re: Adding Custom Views to Tool Palettes

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 11:04:29 GMT

Hi Ben03049, I am very interested in the script if you are still willing to share. Thanks

Re: Adding Custom Views to Tool Palettes

cadffm — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 11:50:32 GMT

The command to set a named view as current view is _VIEW

so you have to create named views and create a toolpalette command-tool ,

like all other button in your ribbon too.

a) drag and drop a "command" from CUI dialog (lower left area in the opend dialog) to your palette

b) copy an existing command-tool from a toolpalette palette to your palette

You can find a sample command tool in the standard palette "Command Tool Sample" (rightClick, Copy->paste)

As Macro you can use:

'_.-VIEW;_restore;"My named View1"

Re: Adding Custom Views to Tool Palettes

cadffm — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 12:42:18 GMT

Or you like to jump to named views in other files? Then use the hyperlink-function.

But this is not possible directly as normal command-tool,

you have to use Lisp or create an object, add a hyperlink to your view, follow the hyperlink and delete this dummy-object.

Note: In Video and in handout pdf - i can not see where he handles named views in toolpalettes..

AutoCAD-Super-Duper-Click-Savers-2015AU 2014 CLASS GEN9992,

Re: Adding Custom Views to Tool Palettes

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:17:11 GMT

Wow, that worked so well and very easily. I never used Macros before and still managed to make it work. Thanks for that, this will save me heaps of time!
In the video the speaker was shifting between views by clicking on tools in the toolpallet.

Re: Adding Custom Views to Tool Palettes

cadffm — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:37:37 GMT

Ok, just for you i watched a part of the video and at 40:05 you can see

that the toolpalette command tool uses exactly what my sample does.

Look at the commandline at 40:05 and you can see _-view with option _r(estore) to set named view "TK"

Your welcome