autozoom extents when changing view orientations

Is there a way/setting to prevent SW from autozooming to extents when
selecting any of the pre-defined views or using the "normal to" view?
Guessing its a simple setting somewhere, but can't seem to find it.

 

Not that I know of - that's a programmed-in function of those views.

If that is something you really want to do, you could modify the numpad
macros to give you the views without the zoom change. But the reason for it
is because when you go to a particular view, what if it's all off the
screen?

Or are you asking for something that changes to that orientation, but by
rotating 3D around the center of your current screen view? I don't know how
to do that just offhand.

Oh by the way, "to extents" is ACAD terminology - the SW API call is
ViewZoomtofit.

WT

 

The "rotate about screen center, to a specific orientation, without
zooming, funtion" is what I was after. Perhaps the name was too long to
place in a tooltip so the funtion was never added <G>. When zoomed way in
to see/fix relatively small surfaces, I find myself rotating the model
slightly to see around, or select behind, entities in the foreground. A lot
of actions screw up the ability to use the previous view funtion. Maybe I'll
see if I can write a macro.

ACAD huh.... luckily I was never saddled with having to learn the
program... wonder where I picked it up?

 

Just a thought - you do know, don't you, that you can MMB a point and then
click and hold the MMB and rotate around that point? If you didn't, that
might work for you. If you did, then never mind.

WT

 

I know about double MMB click to rotate around a face or edge, but not about
a point. How does that work? Sometimes, I randomly (apparently, since it
always takes me by surprise and don't recall what I clicked) I get a rotate
about edge instead of pan with Ctrl+MMB drag. Is this a feature I don't know
about? or just a bug with the key driver?

 

When you pick a vertex as your rotation point, you can go all directions,
which I pretty much always do. If you just click somewhere on a face, you
get a rotation about an axis that is perpendicular to that face. This can
seem quite random if you don't understand it.

As far as your Ctrl issue, my guess is that you don't get the Ctrl made
before the mouse click. I find myself doing that once in a while.

WT