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John Connor
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Topic: Changing a view while keeping drawing intact Posted: 22.Feb.2013 at 22:21 |
Rog: the OP wants to be able to look, for example, at a SW isometric, but call it SE because that is the name he has an affinity for. Kind of like calling your girlfriend's dog Spike even though its name is Fluffy.
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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."
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Rogoznica
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Posted: 22.Feb.2013 at 14:53 |
are you working in paperspace? if so create a viewport, scale it to whatever size you would like than lock the viewport, doubleclick inside the viewport and change the views to front, back, sw, se etc etc...
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John Connor
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Posted: 18.Feb.2013 at 12:19 |
In the real world a southwest isometric view is called (guess what) a southwest isometric view. You want to call it something different. It just makes no sense. Do you rename the letter 'A' but still print or write it in the same form? No, you don't. Why? Because it wouldn't make any sense. My drafting and design instructor would have laughed you right out of class. Get real. You were given a workaround which you refuse to use. I haven't seen any other alternatives yet have you?
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Joferna
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Posted: 17.Feb.2013 at 22:49 |
Hey Mr. Connor,
There is no need in this forum to be sarcastic, which I am detecting here. The reason I wanted to know if there was a way to interchange views is because when I am drawing an object and happen to do most of the work on one particular view, I wanted that particular view to be my favourite view - the SE Isometric . I just wanted to know if it could be done. Thats all.
My humble opinion is that there is no need for me to go on a Cook or perry expedition to North pole or carry a compass that shows south when I am going north. These comments are totally unwanted .
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John Connor
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Posted: 17.Feb.2013 at 15:03 |
Do you also repaint the North designation on your compass when you're out hiking so it says south?
Good thing you weren't on the Cook or Perry expeditions to the North pole.
Use a "named" view. It's easy, fast and infinitely repeatable.
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Joferna
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Posted: 16.Feb.2013 at 15:45 |
Hi Philippe, & Dave,
Thanks for your responses . From what I am aware , I may be wrong, but, RENAME just gives you a custom name for a particular view. Philippe's response is good but does not do what I am trying to do . Once again thanks
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philippe JOSEPH
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Posted: 12.Feb.2013 at 12:43 |
Hello joferna, do you know about the command PLAN associated with a good UCS ( with or without the variable UCSFOLLOW set on : 0 or on : 1 ) ?
I have personnaly set my PGP file with :
1, *AMDT_FRONT_LEFT_ISO 2, *AMDT_FRONT_RIGHT_ISO 3, *AMDT_BACK_LEFT_ISO 4, *AMDT_BACK_RIGHT_ISO
and it helps me a lot when working in 3D ( those PGP works on my AutoCAD Mechanical 2012 ).
Maybe it's not what you are looking for or maybe it is.
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heinsite
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Posted: 12.Feb.2013 at 10:01 |
Have you considered named views?
Dave.
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Dave Hein, P.E. Hawaii District Engineer Kona International Airport AutoCAD Certified Professional Autodesk Expert Elite
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Joferna
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Posted: 12.Feb.2013 at 08:35 |
Thanks fr responding John. I did try to reorient the UCS, but it does not do what I am trying. I am just playing around with this' view ' thing. The easiest way is to 'Rotate ' the drawing to the view that I want and save it. What I wanted to do was- say I have this cube - has named faces like front , back, left, right, top, bottom. In the SE isometric view the front, top and right faces would be visible. If I go to NW isometric, its just the opposite. here the back, left and the bottom become visible. Now my question is can I swap the SE isometric to show the back, left and the bottom of the cube , because I like this particular view.
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John Connor
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Posted: 12.Feb.2013 at 00:10 |
Wouldn't you have to reorient your UCS?
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