getcorner & UCS

[Emmanuel Delay]

I was looking to make something like this, kind of a mapbook. Generating multiple layouts, each with a viewport that shows a small part of the model:

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?60819-Create-viewport-with-a-scale-using-a-lisp

 

One problem I am facing is UCS. I'm a bit stuck trying to get the cursor, the corner, ... to follow my UCS.

 

Getcorner draws a rectangle that's aligned with the PLAN view, rather than ucs.

I want to select objects that are within a rectangle at an angle, whilst using (getcorner (getpoint "\nPoint 1" ) "\nPoint 2")

 

I feel like I'm missing some simple setting or so.

(Oh yes, it must work for Autocad 2010. Maybe more recent versions solved this...)

[marko_ribar]

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=34793.msg400592#msg400592

 

 

HTH., M.R.

[Emmanuel Delay]

Thanks.

I'll have to reverse engineer this to see where exactly the clue is.

[Lee Mac]

Here's another old example -

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=34804

[BIGAL]

This is something done in roads all the time layout sheets following the alignment of the road, built into civ3D, there was a recent post here about this. Rectangs that overlap slightly but are at different angles.

 

Done using a block as a rectang insert is centroid and use measure with a spacing.

[Emmanuel Delay]

Thanks guys.

 

Yes, it is related to that question with the overlapping layouts.

If I get that to work I'll post an answer there.

[BIGAL]

Do a bit more google searching this is an old topic and there a lots of posts.