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I agree also great forum, the biggest out there is the worst site and they just dodge around the edges of the problems by saying contact our support request department

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Yes, you can use your scroll wheel and zoom in until your view passes through the wall, but that can be a bit tedious. One thing you can do is set up a camera in each room, or multiple cameras pointing at different walls. Then you can switch from one to the other using the VIEW command and select which camera you want.

Ditto !

Just a suggestion. I used Lee Mac's lfnumber function from http://lee-mac.com/layoutfield.html which is loaded by acaddoc.lsp to set sheet number in my template's layout title block. It generates a field expression referencing the position of the layout in which the selected annotation object resides. If I drag the layout tabs around my sheet numbers are automatically renumbered to always be numbered consecutively left to right in order. I use the layout tab names as sheet descriptions which are also referenced in the title block and make finding what you're looking for in a set of plans a lot easier.

Interesting. I have some old drawings that may be plagued with this. Hopefully I can remember this thread next time I go into those.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/certified-graphics-hardware?id=18844534&siteID=123112 I have actually solved or improved graphics card performance by rolling back drivers at times, so try rolling back or getting some older drivers if the latest AutoCAD driver doesn't help, I also have had good luck at times with the "not ready for production drivers" from nVidia. Are you positive AutoCAD uses the NVidia card? See this....https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-uses-the-wrong-graphics-card.html What is the clock speed on your laptop? What are the complete specifications on your laptop? Are the drawings on the local drive or network drive? Are you using a separate monitor? To answer your question, yes, using a Laptop sacrifices some quality for portability. Heat is usually a big factor in Laptops as well as limited power supply. Though a workstation laptop should still handle simple AutoCAD tasks.

Nice also Pkenewell as there is no image or dwg etc to check against another way to pick less demanding is to just pick 2 points inside circles then use SSGET "F" with circle filter. I have started using mapcar more for simple pt calcs. (setq mp (mapcar '* (mapcar '+ p1 p2) '(0.5 0.5 0.5)))

Like Lrm its very simple pick a line from 1 end that becomes ptA something I have been doing for years. ; simple make a point at dist on a line ; By AlanH march 2021 (defun c:testpt ( / tp1 tpp1 p1 p2 p3 d1 d2 temp ang ) (SETQ TP1 (entsel "\nSelect Line near left end: ")) ; implies which way (setq tpp1 (entget (car tp1)) p1 (cdr (assoc 10 tpp1)) ; start point p2 (cdr (assoc 11 tpp1)) ; end point p3 (cadr tp1) ) (setq d1 (distance p1 p3) d2 (distance p2 p3) ) ; swap point direction for end closest (if (> d1 d2) (progn (setq temp p1) (setq p1 p2) (setq p2 temp) ) ) (setq ang (angle p1 p2)) (setq d1 (getreal "\nEnter distance from end ")) (setq pt (polar p1 ang d1)) (setvar 'pdmode 33) ; turn on point style (command "point" pt) ; create a point (princ) ; exit quietly ) A couple more options are pt offset sq from point, and pt along a pline as already mentioned.

Yes, it's ten years later. I found this solution some time ago, but now it can be told. If you have strange layers or blocks in your drawing, use the command ATTDISP and set the ON option. We just got a survey with 450 invisible blocks. When I turned the attributes on, it looked like this: Once you can see those strange blocks, you can delete them. Once the blocks are gone, you can purge those strange layers. Typical block names are DTM_DEF, ADCADD_ZZ,. PROJ_NAME, ROAD_DEF, and LOT_DEFS. A typical layer name is DCA_INFO. These are artifacts from the Softdesk and LDD days.

Definition points are reference points for dimensions, these are same points which appear at grip location when a dimension is selected.. Once anything using the layer is removed, it can be purged, though LAYDEL (Layer delete) might be easier.

You convinced me to add it to my Zoom drop-down in my custom View panel using the default Rectangle Images. ZW is a defined shortcut for "Zoom Window" in Civil 3D so I named it "Zoom to Points" or ZPTS. Lee's code was conceptual and didn't use local variables, he suggested using CAB's version in the thread. I went with CAB's version but commented out the OSNAP lines letting "getpoint" use my OSNAP settings. (defun c:zpts (/ pt1 pt2) (if (and (setq pt1 (getpoint "\nSelect First Window Point: ")) ; (setq pt1 (osnap pt1 "_end,_app")) (setq pt2 (getpoint "\nSelect Second Window Point: ")) ; (setq pt2 (osnap pt2 "_end,_app")) ) (command "._zoom" "_w" "_non" pt1 "_non" pt2) ; end zoom ) (princ) ) Curious what you're trying to do here with the viewport frame. There are a few lisp for creating them like https://jtbworld.com/autocad-vp-outline-lsp. Are you trying to match a viewport's view on the Model tab? Saving that view and restoring it on the Model tab is easy enough and switching between multiple saved views is as simple as picking them from a drop-down.