therock005 Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 There are cases where i set the limits of my drawing, which are smaller than what ive drafted. when i want to do zoom extents i want it to be where ive set my limits, not object that surpass them. How can i set that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Try setting views and do just that zoom view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therock005 Posted March 18, 2018 Author Share Posted March 18, 2018 Ok nice alternative. But whats the use of drawing limits though if they are inferior to the extents. From an academic standpoitn im asking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven-g Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Limits and Extents are 2 different animals, Limits are only there to work with the Grid and can also be used to stop you being able to enter points outside of the Limits if you turn Limits on. Zoom Extents will Zoom to include all objects you have drawn. Limits isn't broken it just has no relationship to Zoom, as another alternative to what you are trying to do you could draw a rectangle around your "Limits" place it on the defpoints layer if you don't want it to plot and then Zoom Object would work. And as an addition to that the option Zoom-Object will also allow you to use a Group as the Object, so making your Limits rectangle a Named Group would work in a similar way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Drawing limits is one way to select an area to be printed from model space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therock005 Posted March 18, 2018 Author Share Posted March 18, 2018 Thanks guy, both responses helped. Is that all limits has to offer in practice or shall i know more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven-g Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Read the help files, that usually gives a pretty good indication of what is what, sometimes there are ways to achieve similar results with different commands, and on very rare occasions there are a few hidden extras, but as it stands the Limits command is about setting the Grid display size and nothing to do with the Zoom command. So with what you are describing there are methods to achieve that but they don't include the Limits options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 You could do 2 little lisps set mywindow and zoommywindow (defun c:zx ( / ) (if (= zwpt1 nil)(c:zs)) (command "zoom" "W" zwpt1 zwpt2) ) (defun c:zs ( / ) (setq zwpt1 (getpoint "pick 1st window pt")) (setq zwpt2 (getpoint "pick 2nd window pt")) (command "zoom" "W" zwpt1 zwpt2) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 If no objects are in the drawing, then Zoom, All, will use limits. If there are objects in the drawing, but within the limits, Zoom will use limits setting. With objects beyond the limits, then Zoom, All will include everything. No matter where objects exists in the drawing, Zoom, Extents will just show you the extents of the objects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtkell Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 If I remember correctly, "Limits" used to be an option within the "Zoom" command. But is not present now. Not sure when removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 If I remember correctly, "Limits" used to be an option within the "Zoom" command. But is not present now. Not sure when removed. I don't think that is correct. I have manuals back to 2.0 and it is not in there. Possible it was in the 1.X release I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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