View shortcut?

eivber

I want to quickly jump between two parts of a drawing so I dont have to zoom out and then in again for every time. The -VIEW-command gets me halfway there.
I can save a view and restore the view when I need to, but its a little slow process as I have to type the -VIEW command, R for Restore and then the name of the saved view, this process is so long that I could have just have zoomed out and in again as before.
Any way to speed up this process?

For context: I have a long row of fire alarm symbols that needs to be placed in different rooms in a building, I want to speed up the process of jumping between this row and the rooms as this has to be done about 1500 times

ALANH

Just always save your views as View1, View2 etc.

(defun c:V1 ()(command "VIEW" "R" "View1"))
make a few and load on start up.

Anthony Apostolaros

If you want to minimize keystrokes, you don't actually need the "V" or the word "View." A saved view can be named "1" and a custom command can also be named "1"

But you need the non-dialog version of the View command.
(defun c:1 () (command "-VIEW" "R" "1"))

eivber

Thank you for good suggestions, I will try it out. I can also split the view into two viewports, but jumping views would be better I think.

ALANH

There is a way to use command VX where the X is the viewport like "1", it uses a reactor and checks the error message looking for the "V", I have this for fillet you type f123 and it will set the fillet radius to 123 and continue normal fillet command, same with circle C100 asks for a point and a circle with rad 100 is drawn. Can have up to 26 options ie A-Z. If you only have a few views then yes defuns 1 2 3 etc.