Viewcube- Rotate alternative

[aimee]

In the absence of the viewcube available in full CAD, I am searching for a way to rotate the model space view without adjusting the UCS. In addition to being a bit tedious, I am concerned this will affect the alignment of the given file when X-Referenced into another file if someone forgets to reset back to WCS before saving.

Here is my understanding of the UCS procedure:

UCS ---> Z ---> 90 (or whatever the angle is)

Plan ---> UCS Current

Now, to return to the original UCS, without rotating the drawing back:

UCS--->world

Finally, to return to the original orientation:

Plan ---> world

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There must be an easier way to just rotate the modelspace view?

Thank you for your assistance! 

[steven-g · Accepted solution]

See your other post - named ucs with ucsfollow=1, but it is down to the user to return everything back to world ucs before saving and closing.

[Anonymous]

Use the 2D nav wheel (pan wheel icon on the small menu on the right hand side).  Hold shift and use the middle button or wheel to rotate (shows up as orbit tool on my screen).  Simple and effective if you just want to rotate a 3D model in LT model space.

[steven-g]

Can you show a video clip of that, yes it does say 'orbit' but for me, it does nothing other than pan, it would be nice if there is a way to orbit in LT.

[Anonymous]

Epic fail on recording a video while alone when you need two hands for the video.  I posted two pictures of what needs to be selected that worked for me.  You need to have the navigation bar open (View, viewport tools and click navigation bar), that is where you can find the first picture below, the 2D wheel. Second picture is what you should see when you have selected the 2D wheel.  Hold down the shift button and press down the wheel on your mouse which allows you to pan in orbit mode.  That was how it worked for me with a rather generic mouse. Hope that helps

[steven-g]

WOW. I mean 🤓 that actually works. I don't believe this, it actually works. This is LT and we have the orbit tool.

[Anonymous]

*curtsies* I just kept trying! Figured it had to be somewhere so I tried clicking combinations of the navigation buttons and shift (shift works for this in inventor so I got used to that with a standard mouse). Happy to help

[cadffm]

please confirm, or correct me

Yes it works (nice to know, thank you for sharing),

the missing piece of knowledge here is: It doesn't work in 2d wireframe mode, you have to be in another shademode

So, command: SHADEMODE hidden

then it works.

?

[steven-g]

@cadffm Confirmed I usually have shademode set to hidden so didn't notice that at first, but yes in 2Dwireframe this only pans which is how I had first tried in a different drawing which I happened to have open. Or as appears to be the case in @Anonymous's image you need a viewstyle active. As a note LT cannot turn on viewstyles but it will open an existing drawing created and saved in the full version that had a viewstyle active.

[cadffm]

>"As a note LT cannot turn on viewstyles"

Right, but you can change the shademode by using command SHADEMODE (to hidden)

[steven-g]

Correct.

[Anonymous]

I did open a previous drawing with an active viewstyle, So I was able to rotate the model not having to put shademode to hidden.  Thank you for the shademode tip as well.  I don't think I will be doing much 3D modeling (hence AutoCAD LT) but at least I can open previous designs and rotate the model. 

[Anonymous]

I dont see this menu.  Do you know which window I can open to view?

[steven-g]

You can type 'NAVSWHEEL' to open the tool.