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Mview works backwards. Cutting a hole in your pspace to view your model
is a real pain in the !#@%! Too much stretching, panning, zooming and
general fiddling is required. You should be able to set up ports while
looking at your entire model, define areas, set scales and such. The
included files alleviate much of this uneccessary and short-sighted
hassle.
The Setport and Getport lisp routines will allow you to save a series of
viewports to your current working directory. The files ceated are very tiny.
This will allow recalling views for assembly of a sheet of multiple views at
multiple scales while in the current drawing or other drawings.
Only 3 things are required, diagonal picks to define the area, a scale
expressed in a ratio, and a file name. It would be great if someone would
add the ability to save the layer structure with this "viewport" file.
The following is an example of applying this technique to architectural
plan drawings.
Saving views
1. Go into any of your plan drawings, load setport.lsp.
2. Make sure you are in model space and zoom e.
3. Type "setport" to start program and follow the prompts.
When asked for scale type the ratio:
"48" if you want 1/4"=1'
"96" if you want 1/8"=1'
"192" for 1/16"=1',etc.
(This has become second nature at our office.)
4. End or quit the drawing.
Sheet Assembly
1. Start new drawing in same directory.
2. Load Setport.lsp
3. Xref the drawings you were looking at before.
4. Tilemode 0
5. While in pspace xref a border sheet at a scale of one.
6. Type "getport" and follow the prompts. ".vpt" file extension is assumed
so you don't have to type it. The pick responds sluggishly but will work.
Note: Of course you don't have to move between files to do this but
our sheet files xref most of their information for plotting. (standard
title block, various plans, details, etc.) Only sheet specific info is
contained in that file.