Toggling between Viewports
In Autocad I can toggle between active viewportswith ctrl-R, not only by clicking with the mouse.Sometimes I have one viewport surroundedentirely by another, which would make it impossible to make it an active viewport without a keyboard toggle.
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We intend to implement this option CTRL+R. Meanwhile we hope you can get by by with the system variable and command CVPORT. kind regards, Alexander Van Heuverzwyn,Bricsys
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Thanks!
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For convenience, I normally make my viewports so that they always have some part of them I can click in. This is often done by extending part of the viewport so that it is longer than needed, but it forms a sort-of tabe I can click into. This way I only need to click in the empty area of the viewport to activate it.Of course, the ability to do the above will depend on your situation. Some entites may be revealed that you don't want to show. A work around may be just to resize the viewport temporarily, and then put it back to the original size. But, briscCad behaves differently from AutoCAD when you resize viewports. BricsCad shifts the view, where AutoCAD just reveals more of modelspace.IN an earlier edition of AutoCAD (before irrregularly shaped viewports were available), I would make multiple viewports so that they form a series of aligned tiles.To do this in AutoCAD, I would copy a viewport directly on top of itself. Then, I would highlight only one of them, and use the handle to drag the viewport size. After that, I could select the other viewport, and drag its handles so that it corresponds to an edge of the copy. But as I said before, in AutoCAD, the objects inside the viewport do not shift... in BricsCad they do. Somehow the entites have to be made to align with each other.Perhaps you can use non-square viewports to accomplish a similar end result?Joe Dunfee
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Just checked the viewport content shift in V8.0.10: this occurs e.g. if in the properties bar the viewport Height is changed, though acad behaves the same. If the Width is changed, no content shift occurs, again same as in acad.When using grip editing to edit the viewport size, no content shift will occur. If you experience different behaviour please let us know. V8.0.10 does not yet support grip editing of non-rectangular viewports, we have added this in the upcoming V8.0.11
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I just tested the behavior of changing the viewports. If you use handles, the view does not shift, but if you use stretch, then it does.It is not an issue that needs to be addresed. Actually, I think handles are an easier way to change viewports. I tend to use stretch because I started using Acad before handles were available. I just need to teach this old dog some new tricks.Joe Dunfee
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The problem with being able to only use grips and not stretch to resize viewports is that you can use grips on only one viewport at a time (bcad has no multiple grip selection like acad).If I'm arranging a drawing sheet with several or more viewports, I have to pick them one at a time.
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For anyone who wants this, I've been using this routine for toggling between viewports since Bricscad v7. Cut and paste this routine into an alias (Alt-T, for instance) to toggle between Paper Space Viewports.(setq c (+ 1 (caar(vports)))) (if (> c (length(vports))) (setq c 2)) (COMMAND "cvport" c)I use overlapping viewports in my layouts and I always lock the display for each viewport to avoid zooming the viewport from paperspace. Pressing ALT-T will toggle through each viewport.
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I tried it. Works nice. Thanks
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