Is there a way/setting to prevent SW from autozooming to extents when 
selecting any of the pre-defined views or using the "normal to" view? 
Guessing its a simple setting somewhere, but can't seem to find it.
-- 
Brian Hokanson
Starting Line Products

Not that I know of - that's a programmed-in function of those views.

If that is something you really want to do, you could modify the numpad 
macros to give you the views without the zoom change.  But the reason for it 
is because when you go to a particular view, what if it's all off the 
screen?

Or are you asking for something that changes to that orientation, but by 
rotating 3D around the center of your current screen view?  I don't know how 
to do that just offhand.

Oh by the way, "to extents" is ACAD terminology - the SW API call is 
ViewZoomtofit.  :-)

  WT

"Brian" <brianh.castrate.all.spammers@slp.cc> wrote in message 
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>
>    Is there a way/setting to prevent SW from autozooming to extents when 
> selecting any of the pre-defined views or using the "normal to" view? 
> Guessing its a simple setting somewhere, but can't seem to find it.
> -- 
> Brian Hokanson
> Starting Line Products
>
> 

    The "rotate about screen center, to a specific orientation, without 
zooming, funtion" is what I was after.  Perhaps the name was too long to 
place in a tooltip so the funtion was never added <G>.  When zoomed way in 
to see/fix relatively small surfaces, I find myself rotating the model 
slightly to see around, or select behind, entities in the foreground.  A lot 
of actions screw up the ability to use the previous view funtion. Maybe I'll 
see if I can write a macro.

    ACAD huh.... luckily I was never saddled with having to learn the 
program... wonder where I picked it up?

"Wayne Tiffany" <wayne.tiffanyRMVJUNK@asi.com> wrote in message 
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> Not that I know of - that's a programmed-in function of those views.
>
> If that is something you really want to do, you could modify the numpad 
> macros to give you the views without the zoom change.  But the reason for 
> it is because when you go to a particular view, what if it's all off the 
> screen?
>
> Or are you asking for something that changes to that orientation, but by 
> rotating 3D around the center of your current screen view?  I don't know 
> how to do that just offhand.
>
> Oh by the way, "to extents" is ACAD terminology - the SW API call is 
> ViewZoomtofit.  :-)
>
>  WT
>
> "Brian" <brianh.castrate.all.spammers@slp.cc> wrote in message 
> news:43037470_5@newsfeed.slurp.net...
>>
>>    Is there a way/setting to prevent SW from autozooming to extents when 
>> selecting any of the pre-defined views or using the "normal to" view? 
>> Guessing its a simple setting somewhere, but can't seem to find it.
>> -- 
>> Brian Hokanson
>> Starting Line Products
>>
>>
>
> 

Just a thought - you do know, don't you, that you can MMB a point and then 
click and hold the MMB and rotate around that point?  If you didn't, that 
might work for you.  If you did, then never mind.

  WT

"Brian" <brianh.castrate.all.spammers@slp.cc> wrote in message 
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>    The "rotate about screen center, to a specific orientation, without 
> zooming, funtion" is what I was after.  Perhaps the name was too long to 
> place in a tooltip so the funtion was never added <G>.  When zoomed way in 
> to see/fix relatively small surfaces, I find myself rotating the model 
> slightly to see around, or select behind, entities in the foreground.  A 
> lot of actions screw up the ability to use the previous view funtion. 
> Maybe I'll see if I can write a macro.
>
>    ACAD huh.... luckily I was never saddled with having to learn the 
> program... wonder where I picked it up?
>
> "Wayne Tiffany" <wayne.tiffanyRMVJUNK@asi.com> wrote in message 
> news:5HKMe.8532$d94.4413600@news.sisna.com...
>> Not that I know of - that's a programmed-in function of those views.
>>
>> If that is something you really want to do, you could modify the numpad 
>> macros to give you the views without the zoom change.  But the reason for 
>> it is because when you go to a particular view, what if it's all off the 
>> screen?
>>
>> Or are you asking for something that changes to that orientation, but by 
>> rotating 3D around the center of your current screen view?  I don't know 
>> how to do that just offhand.
>>
>> Oh by the way, "to extents" is ACAD terminology - the SW API call is 
>> ViewZoomtofit.  :-)
>>
>>  WT
>>
>> "Brian" <brianh.castrate.all.spammers@slp.cc> wrote in message 
>> news:43037470_5@newsfeed.slurp.net...
>>>
>>>    Is there a way/setting to prevent SW from autozooming to extents when 
>>> selecting any of the pre-defined views or using the "normal to" view? 
>>> Guessing its a simple setting somewhere, but can't seem to find it.
>>> -- 
>>> Brian Hokanson
>>> Starting Line Products
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> 

"Wayne Tiffany" <wayne.tiffanyRMVJUNK@asi.com> wrote in message 
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> Just a thought - you do know, don't you, that you can MMB a point and then 
> click and hold the MMB and rotate around that point?  If you didn't, that 
> might work for you.  If you did, then never mind.

I know about double MMB click to rotate around a face or edge, but not about 
a point. How does that work? Sometimes, I randomly (apparently, since it 
always takes me by surprise and don't recall what I clicked) I get a rotate 
about edge instead of pan with Ctrl+MMB drag. Is this a feature I don't know 
about? or just a bug with the key driver?

When you pick a vertex as your rotation point, you can go all directions, 
which I pretty much always do.  If you just click somewhere on a face, you 
get a rotation about an axis that is perpendicular to that face.  This can 
seem quite random if you don't understand it.

As far as your Ctrl issue, my guess is that you don't get the Ctrl made 
before the mouse click.  I find myself doing that once in a while.

  WT

"Boat" <boat042-spam@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> "Wayne Tiffany" <wayne.tiffanyRMVJUNK@asi.com> wrote in message 
> news:FhNMe.9867$8y5.5213330@news.sisna.com...
>> Just a thought - you do know, don't you, that you can MMB a point and 
>> then click and hold the MMB and rotate around that point?  If you didn't, 
>> that might work for you.  If you did, then never mind.
>
> I know about double MMB click to rotate around a face or edge, but not 
> about a point. How does that work? Sometimes, I randomly (apparently, 
> since it always takes me by surprise and don't recall what I clicked) I 
> get a rotate about edge instead of pan with Ctrl+MMB drag. Is this a 
> feature I don't know about? or just a bug with the key driver?
>