dview > twist > pick points?

Is there a way to dview > twist your view by clicking points as opposed to entering an angle? When you initiate dview > twist objects turn off and any objects you select as the dview block rotate as such you can't select points on the objects...

Instead of Dview, try UCS . If you use UCS > Z, you can specify the angle (or pick on screen); UCS > OB (or E) you can specify an entity to align to; UCS > V will align to current view.

Does that mean the answer is NO?

I'm looking for a dview > twist that behaves more like the one in Microstation. The answer you gave doesn't really twist the view right, just the ucs?

Yes, that means no.

Try the Plan command after UCS.

Try using PLAN afterwards and set view to Current. Or combine the two into macros to rotate the view turnwise and widdershins.

So you are wanting to twist the view of your drawing by selecting two points?

Si. I want to dview > twist by selecting two points instead of entering an angle. The UCS deal will do I reckon. Maybe I'll work up the macro for it.

What I don't like with that is when I do plan > c (for current ucs) it zooms to extents. If I do a zoom previous if reverts back to the previous ucs setting. Is there a way to zoom previous and keep the ucs via a regular macro or will that require programming?

this might work for you

 
(defun rtd (a) (/ (* a 180.0)pi))
(defun dtr (a)
       (* pi (/ a 180.0)))
      
(DEFUN C:TW(/ W2 W1 ANG)
       (PRINC"\nSelect two point along the desired horizontal line. ")
       (SETVAR"OSMODE"512)(IF(SETQ W2(GETPOINT"\nFirst point (left): "))
       (PROGN(INITGET 1)(SETQ W1(GETPOINT"\nSecond point: "W2)ANG(ANGLE W2 W1))
       (COMMAND"DVIEW""L" "" "TW"(- 360(RTD ANG))"")(SETVAR"SNAPANG"ANG)))
       (SETVAR"OSMODE"0))

Exactly what I wanted! Thank you so much my friend! Please come by for a drink sometime.

No problem

Nice one - Thanks

this might work for you

 

 

 
(defun rtd (a) (/ (* a 180.0)pi))
(defun dtr (a)
       (* pi (/ a 180.0)))
      
(DEFUN C:TW(/ W2 W1 ANG)
       (PRINC"\nSelect two point along the desired horizontal line. ")
       (SETVAR"OSMODE"512)(IF(SETQ W2(GETPOINT"\nFirst point (left): "))
       (PROGN(INITGET 1)(SETQ W1(GETPOINT"\nSecond point: "W2)ANG(ANGLE W2 W1))
       (COMMAND"DVIEW""L" "" "TW"(- 360(RTD ANG))"")(SETVAR"SNAPANG"ANG)))
       (SETVAR"OSMODE"0))

What are the different osmode variables? I would like to change it, but not sure what to set it to. How do I figure that out?

Each OSNAP has a numerical value associated to it. 512 being NEAREST...if you want to change it use one of the other numbers...

0 NONe

1 ENDpoint

2 MIDpoint

4 CENter

8 NODe

16 QUAdrant

32 INTersection

64 INSertion

128 PERpendicular

256 TANgent

512 NEArest

1024 QUIck

2048 APParent Intersection

4096 EXTension

8192 PARallel

If you want more than one to be active than just use the sum of the numbers

You rock man. Thanks again.

No problem