Macro for toggling Osnap (using Belkin n52te)

[Lee Roy]

Sharing my experience and solution:

 

I don't know about others, but I'm running a Belkin n52te (Razer Nostromo) game pad, Razer Naga mouse and Razer Lycosa keyboard. I use my gamepad a LOT! I have multiple profiles on all devices set to auto-app-switch between AutoCAD, Revit, Office and Windows.

 

Pertaining to AutoCAD:

I hate having to hit function (F keys) to toggle snaps and ortho, which I'm constantly popping on and off. I mapped ortho to one key on the n52, but all my other keys are in use. The key to the left is for Shift. I wanted a way to map Shift+F8 to toggle my Osnap. However, I couldn't find the toggle command for Osnap. After a lot of digging, I found a macro. I copied the macro, created a new command, pasted in the macro and tied that command to Shift+F8. So now, I don't have to move my hand to quickly toggle ortho, osnap or hold shift to deselect objects.

 

That macro is:

^P'_.osmode $M=$(if,$(and,$(getvar,osmode),16384),$(-,$(getvar,osmode),16384),$(+,$(getvar,osmode),16384))

 

If someone has a better solution, I'm always open to suggestion. Again, I'm just sharing my solution that I found on my own. Hopefully this helps someone. You can always map this to a different key on your keyboard, too.

 

Basically, if you lookup a Nostromo keypad, I have 03 as Shift, 04 as F8...so if I hold 03 and tap 04, it's just like hitting Shift+F8 on my keyboard

 

Kinda OT: I have to say, using this setup has saved me quite a bit of drafting time, as all commands are at my fingertips. 12 commands on my right thumb and 81 commands on my left hand...I definately don't use them all and still use the keyboard for some commands, but putting my most commonly used commands on these devices has made drafting a LOT quicker. Not just for me, but for a couple/few other draftsmen here also use the n52te. I picked up all three on Woot.com for 1/2 price each.

[BIGAL]

Are you just turning osnap on & off then set button to function key F3 also ortho is F8 or are you changing your osnaps to different settings ?

 

At one stage I had END = osnap end only HOME = centre etc

[Lee Roy]

F3 is still Osnap and F8 is still Ortho; now Shift-F8 is also Osnap. I mapped them this way for my gamepad, now two keys have three controls without changing maps.

 

I thought I would share the macro I found inside AutoCAD with others, so that if anyone else is looking to remap Osnap, here's one way to do it, since I couldn't find the simple "Toggles Object Snap" command to re-map it in the CUI.

[Doublelive]

Does anyone hear have any idea how i can set the D-pad on the N52 to pan?