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Finding Viewport scale factor
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2001 8:36 am
by TONYCB
Being used to using AutoCAD's `LIST' command for finding the scale factor used for various viewports on drawings I'm wondering how this is accomplished with IntelliCAD?
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2001 8:52 pm
by Draftingallday
Tonycb,
I did some looking and couldn't find away to do it. Have you worked with viewports in older versions of Autocad that didn't list it ? They way I learnd was trial and error. Then writing down what the scale factor was when I was finished. So I wouldn't have to rememeber it. I would suggest the same thing for you because there is no other way.
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2001 12:07 pm
by TONYCB
Through work I often interact with other users drawings. I had just hoped there was a quick method similar to AutoCAD for listing the various viewports scales. I am presently using IntelliCAD year 2000 sample. I am hoping their complete updated year 2001 version will have solved this problem.
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2001 1:02 pm
by avaernes
You can try this little lisp routine. It will return the relative scale factor (Zoom xp) of the viewport. Past it to your icad.lsp file and run with VPLIST.
(defun C:vplist ( / ss vpaspect vsize)
(setq ss (entget(car (entsel))))
(setq vpaspect (cdr(assoc 41 ss)))
(setq vsize (cdr(assoc 45 ss)))
(prompt (strcat "\nScale relative to paper space: " (rtos (/ vsize vpaspect))"xp"))
)
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2001 8:00 pm
by tooldesigner
Thanks that routine might come in handy next time I use paperspace. Thanks.
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2001 8:09 am
by TONYCB
Thank you for your response. Sorry it took so long for me to respond. I have been waiting word back from upper management that our company will be getting a updated version of IntelliCAD before leaving our present AutoCAD LT program (and discovering/fixing any more new bugs). I do appreciate using this forum for questions.
