Adjusting opened drawings windowsize

Hello,

Is it posible, or might there be a way to adjust the window of an opened
drawing to the limits (or extents) of the drawing itself?

M

 

Not exactly Bill.
I Want it the way arround.
To adjust the window to the extens of the object.
This has to do with the slides I'm generating automatically.

I'm not sure if this is possible.

Marcel

 

In AutoCAD 2005 you can zoom to an Object

 

What "window" do you mean?

AutoCAD window? Viewport window? Zoom window?

Bill

 

In that case you should make the drawing's window one size, and use that
single window to generate all the slides, for a consistent look. Otherwise,
your slides may vary in quality.

--
R. Robert Bell


Not exactly Bill.
I Want it the way arround.
To adjust the window to the extens of the object.
This has to do with the slides I'm generating automatically.

I'm not sure if this is possible.

Marcel

 

The window of the opened drawing. (The window within the AutoCAD window)

 

The blocks I'm generating the slides from are the same size.
But the window is not always. I realy need the drawingwindow to adjust it's
size to the drawings extents. That would be a lot more simple for me.

M

 

Sorry!

Don't have 2005 yet!

 

Just open the drawing and do a zoom extents. To prevent the slide looking
crowded, you can also do a zoom .9x afterwards, to zoom out just a little
more. Then make the slide. This is easy to automate.

 

You don't understand.
I'm talking about the window of the opened drawing.
If you have the drawingwindow opend like rectangular the slide wil look
different than when your drawingwindow is opend like a square. If yo know
what I mean. It has nothing to do with zooming.

M

 

Try something like this then:

(defun DB_GetAdoc (/ acadobj adoc)
;;usage = (setq adoc(DB_GetAdoc))
(setq acadobj (vlax-get-acad-object))
(setq adoc (vla-get-ActiveDocument acadobj))
adoc
;;returns result for use in calling program
)

;;_________________
;;end tools section
;;_________________

(defun adjwindow()
(setq adoc(db_GetAdoc))
(vla-put-Width adoc 1000)
(vla-put-Height adoc 400)
)

 

Is That the window you mean?

 

Marcel,

That is what I was trying to explain. The easiest way to take care of it is
to *not* maximize AutoCAD's application window, but *do* maximize the
drawing's window. Turn off all toolbars and size the _application_ window to
the desired aspect ratio/size. Then open all your drawings in the maximized
_drawing_ window, zoom extents, make your slide. Wash, rinse, repeat.

--
R. Robert Bell


You don't understand.
I'm talking about the window of the opened drawing.
If you have the drawingwindow opend like rectangular the slide wil look
different than when your drawingwindow is opend like a square. If yo know
what I mean. It has nothing to do with zooming.

M

 

If you maximize the drawing window it will "lock" with the AutoCAD window
and you can adjust the AutoCAD window to the shape you want and the drawing
window will follow...then every drawing opened will automatically have the
same drawing window ratio. Now, all your slides will be proportioned the
same.

 

Yes!
But it adjusts only in height.
I want the objects in the drawing (extents) to fit exactly in the window.

M

 

I tend to agree with Robert. You can manually size the application window to
suit, then maximize the drawing window, then use my zooming suggestion.

Alternatively, Dann has posted a routine to precisely size the drawing
window, but you'll have to do this in every drawing you open.

Depending on your intended use of the slides, extreme precision in setting
the aspect ratio probably isn't going to matter anyway, so Robert's
suggestion would be the simpler one. In image menus, I believe the size and
proportion is fixed, and your slides will be stretched to fit. In a dialog
box, I believe the representaion is controlled by the dcl. Either way, if
the proportions of your slides is "close enough" and if they're consistent,
that's as good as it gets.

 

Nope!
This will not helping me in my case beceause the size of the drawing I want
to create the slide fom is allmost square. An then i'd have two blank areas
on each side, wich I don't want.

M

See Dann's answer. He's getting me in the right direction.

M

 

That is because the numbers 1000 and 400 are screen resolution based.
You would have to adjust them to match your wants.

 

See my answer at Josh's reply.

 

Then take the aspect ratio of the extents of your drawings, and apply it to
the width and height in Dann's routine.