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demus72
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most common methods of rotating the view in a viewport

Working on a large project that covers roughly 80 acres with a lot of small things happening all over the site. When assembling my sheets, I have forever used the method of rotating my ucs to whatever object I want horizontal in my viewport and then use the plan command and choose current ucs to rotate my view. Solid process in my opinion, however, with such a large site and many alignments and civil 3d object labels, the plan command zooms to extents and it is necessary to zoom and pan and regen all repeatedly to find my exact location.

 

Just out of curiosity, what are the most common methods used to rotate a view in a viewport? I'm guessing dview-twist is right up there? What are the other ways of accomplishing this? Are there lisp routines available that aid in this task?

 

The reason I ask, is there a way to rotate the ucs in a viewport and then rotate the view to the current ucs without zooming extents?

 

Thanks

Patchy
en respuesta a: demus72

MVSETUP is another option

MMcCall402
en respuesta a: demus72

Alignspace has been my preferred method.  Align it, set the scale, pan the location, lock the viewport, set the ucs to view, go!

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user181
en respuesta a: demus72

You can also just use the rotate command to rotate the viewport and then use the grips to reshape it as needed. This prevents the need to rescale the viewport and deal with the huge civil 3d labels that using the plan command causes.

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vandenoosterkamp
en respuesta a: user181

lol, rotating viewports is indeed working. Hilarious imo and really had to check that because I had no clue that that would work after 25+ years working with autocad.

 

@Anonymous: I always save views when working in model. After creating vp, or in fact copying one I just restore the earlier saved view in the vp and after that adjust the scale. When this becomes routine and you find your own system for naming views scrolling and zooming belongs to the past.

 

Write some code to restore your saved views and after that enjoy the surprised looks of people watching your screen that just asked 'can we see cross section 5 once more' because before he ended his sentence it's right there in front of your nose with a few keystrokes instead of eternally zooming and panning or even worse also change ucs and plan first. After a while you can start using a 2 button mouse if you like