LISP to create viewports from modelspace

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am looking for a LISP program that is able to create a viewport in paper space from model space selection. Does anyone know of one?

I found the thread below and the lisp seemed to "nearly work" I guess? It worked a few times but would often give back an error.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/lisp-to-create-viewport-from-selecte...

Thanks!

Michael

[maratovich]

Use search.
Or that :

[vladimir_michl]

Something like LayDWGarr? See https://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/plotting-a-series-of-drawing-frames-composed-in-a-dwg-drawing-ti...

Vladimir Michl, www.cadstudio.cz - www.cadforum.cz

[pendean]

...or this freeware https://apps.autodesk.com/ACD/en/Detail/Index?id=2430986909281925511&appLang=en&os=Win32_64

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone. These all look great, but I'm having a hard time getting them to download with our firewalls and what-not. I work for state government and I have yet to try and figure out how to download apps like this.

That's why I thought there might be some lisp code that I could just plug into VLISP.

Thanks!

Michael

[pendean]

Ask your I.T. for guidance/assistance with the tools you need to do to complete your work.

[davinatkins · Accepted solution]

Michael, what version of AutoCAD are you using?

Versions of AutoCAD later that 2018.2 make it really easy to place model views as viewports. Both named and unnamed.

If you have one of those versions, go to a paperspace view. On the layout tab - near the left - is a button Insert View. You you already have a named view, you just choose that. If you don't have a named view it'll automatically take you to modelspace and invite you to draw a rectangle around the area you want. Hit enter when you are happy with the rectangle. That shoots you right back to paperspace, where you can click to place that viewport - or right-click to change the scale beforehand.

You can't select an object as your boundary - like some of the other answers do - but you didn't say you needed that so maybe this does what you wanted?

[Anonymous]

Oh great. I was having a hard time finding it for a few minutes, but I found it! Thank you this is exactly what I needed.

I do have Civil and AutoCAD 2019.

Thank you,

Michael

[Ed__Jobe]

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@davinatkins wrote:

Michael, what version of AutoCAD are you using?

Versions of AutoCAD later that 2018.2 make it really easy to place model views as viewports. Both named and unnamed.

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The icon might be new, but its just the New option of the MVIEW command.

[Anonymous]

I did notice that.  And I've been using a shortcut for MVIEW all this time. As I am all for quick commands via LISPs, how would I create a command to automatically choose "NEW" after initiating the MVIEW command?

Thanks,

Michael

[Ed__Jobe · Accepted solution]

For a menu macro in the cui, "^C^C mview NE ", but that's what the UI already does in the context-sensitive Layout ribbon tab. If you want a lisp so that you could create a two letter command, then use:

(defun C:NV () (command "mview" "NE"))

Now you can type NV for New Viewport.

[Anonymous]

That's funny I was just doing exactly what you suggested. I found a Zoom All lisp just like that  (defun c:za() (command "zoom" "all" "")). Out of curiosity, I noticed that my lisp has another set of quotations marks ("") after the two command inputs and yours doesn't. Are they unnecessary?

Thank you for the reply!

Michael

[Ed__Jobe]

The (command) function takes separate strings as arguments. The last empty double quote you refer to is like hitting the {Enter} key. So, whether you add that or not is context sensitive. Does the command require it? The ZOOM command needs it to execute the options. The MVIEW command doesn't need it, as its waiting for user input to select a window.

[Anonymous]

Ah yes! Now it is clear, thank you!