Copy Named Views from One Drawing to Another.

[Anonymous]

I searched this out to no avail. I am looking for a lisp routine that will copy the Named Views from one drawing and import them into another. I found a few routines that would do this, but they no longer work in the new versions of cad or simply aren't available at their previous download sites. Any help is appreciated. 

[Moshe-A · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous  hi,

this one is base on the famous ImportUCS.lsp

enjoy

moshe

[Anonymous]

This worked perfectly. Thank you!

I guess I now have a different problem though. I modified the coordinate system of the new drawing which means the views didn't follow the coordinate change. Is there a known way to programatically change this or will I need to go through and correct all of the views manually?

[Moshe-A]

@Anonymous ,

You know, when you define a view name, it also saves it's current ucs. when a view name is restored, it also brings it's saved ucs back. that's logic and that's how it should work - are you agree?

think of this, how ImportViews command will know to which ucs you want it to restore a view name?

tell how? it should pause to ask the ucs name (if it has one?) but think more... potentially there could be dozens (or even more) named view. does it sounds logic to pause for each and every one of them?  

Moshe 

[vgonzalezWKRHW]

This Lisp routine works as long as the source drawing is open in the same AutoCAD instance as the source file. Just something to keep in mind for the people like me that run separate AutoCAD instances.

Thanks for this routine it saved me some time re creating my views on every drawing

[ronjonp]

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@vgonzalezWKRHW wrote:

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Thanks for this routine it saved me some time re creating my views on every drawing

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Perhaps create a template that has these views to start off with ?

[vgonzalezWKRHW]

Going forward that's what I will set up. I added these views after the drawings were created.

Thanks