Viewports toolbar update.

I have been programming a reactor to update the dimscale to whatever the
viewport is scaled to. when switching from viewport to viewport. How do I
get the viewport toolbar to update itself to show something off of the list
rather than just the decimal that is the scale factor? It seems to update
when going into a viewport but when returning to paper space the toolbar
dose not update. ??

This is what I have been doing.
dsc being equivelent to the dimscale
(VLA-SETVARIABLE acaddoc "PSVPSCALE" (/ 1.0 dsc))
(vlax-put-property
(vlax-get-property acaddoc 'ActivePViewport) 'customScale (/ 1.0 dsc))

Thanks
Matthew

 

I may be missing the point of your routine, but wouldn't setting the DIMSCALE sysvar to 0 take care of what you're trying to accomplish with your reactor?

 

If the view port was zoomed to a scale the toolbar will update. however when
I change the dim scale (thus the reactor will update the zoom scale of the
view port) the view port tool bar is not updated. or when I switch back to
the paper space view port (Cvport = 1) the toolbar does not update itself.
the guys at the office here like to have a style for each dimscale.

Is there something I have to set the StandardScale, or CustomScale property
to do this?

Matthew

DIMSCALE sysvar to 0 take care of what you're trying to accomplish with your
reactor?

 

I agree... set DIMSCALE to zero, and be done with it.

 

Create one (1) dimstyle, set dimscale to zero (0).
There should be 'little' need, if any at all, of having more than one (1) dimstyle.

 

I would agree with that too but the guys here don't want to have to do a dim
update on their block library inserted details.

I would still like it to update properly, though.

Thanks for the input.
Matthew

 

How do you insert blocks ??

I have a lisp program here, it will read the viewport scale then scale the blocks accordingly upon insert.

 

What I'm trying to say is that most of out master details library has dims
in them. if you have your dims scale set to 96 for working in the plan.
then you insert a detail that has the dim scale set to 8 the inserted dims
will take the dim style props of the file it was inserted into. if the dim
style name is the same. Thus the dims will have gigantic text & ticks. if
you have a dim style with a name for each scale this will not happen.

Matthew

blocks accordingly upon insert.

It would not be about inserting a typical block into a plan for use we have
whole details set up for re-use.

 

Sorry. But this sounds like you're creating more work than is needed.


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