vpiterator - browse through viewports with hotkey

petercad

in the ribbon view-layout-viewportiterator the command is stored as "^V" - 
how do I activate this command to use it with a hotkey, for example?
what means ^ ?

thanks f. helping

Jason Bourhill

The "^" is used to enter control characters when creating menu macros. For example, the menu macro for drawing a line is:

^c^c_line

The "^c" = Cancel. It is typical to include this at the start of any macro to make sure that you have cancelled out the current command before running the new command (Line).

More info on this in relation to BricsCAD can be found here:

https://www.bricsys.com/blog/writing-macros-and-diesel-code-customizing-bricscad-r-p9

You will find a detailed list of control characters and their meaning here:

About Special Control Characters in Command Macros

In terms of iterating through Viewports. The control character "^V" = iterate to next available viewport. However, the shortcut key sequence that you would press is to do this is "Ctrl + R'

You can find a list of these keyboard shortcuts here.

https://help.bricsys.com/en-us/document/bricscad/getting-started-with-bricscad/exploring-the-interface/keyboard-shortcuts

Jason Bourhill

CAD Concepts Ltd
cadconcepts.co.nz

petercad

hello jason!

thanks a lot!

perfect!