Setting viewport USC to View in a layout

[sharon_dana]

I work plans production, so a lot of time I am working in a layout with a viewport.  I am used to setting my Viewport UCS to View, beaning doing it the same way for 20 years in AutoCAD.  But, it recently I have a continuing problem of when I leave that viewport to go to the paper space or to a different viewport, when I go back, the UCS has changed back to World.  Hard to line notes up to the paperspace rotation when the UCS in the model space won't stay at View.  

What I do: in the layout:  use "Alignspace" command to rotate the model space to the orientation I want.

set the scale to what I need,

type in USC >> View  (check that UCS rotated correctly); 

Lock the viewport.

Is there a setting in Civl3D that I am missing to have it hold the UCS View in the viewports?  My co-workers say they don't have the problem that I am experiencing.

[brian.strandberg]

I don't see any reference to using the PLAN command to rotate the view to make the view planer to the new UCS.  Its possible in the past you had UCSFOLLOW=1 which does this automatically.  Its typically 0 by default.

Thanks.

[sharon_dana]

Thank you for the reply.

We keep the UCSFOLLOW set to 0, otherwise it zooms extents every time we change from paperspace to modelspace.  With a 12 mile long alignment, it is nice to return to the spot I was last working on when I "switch space".

I am not familiar with the PLAN command.  When I used it in my viewport, it caused the view to zoom out to extents and I had to reset the scale but it seemed to have the right orientation.  Now that I got it sized right, hopefully it will hold the UCS as set to View.