Toggling Ortho with Shift

[tmurphy]

I'm a returning user of autocad after using ArchiCAD for two years. It was a good program and one thing I came to enjoy was holding shift to toggle Ortho instead of pushing f8 to turn it on and off. Is there any way making this happen in AutoCAD?

[rkent]

Holding Shift will temporarily toggle Ortho, may not be what you are after. You can assign keys in the CUI to do something like SHIFT+Z to toggle off or on.

[tmurphy]

That is what I'm after. I tried that but there's a slight delay which I didn't realize. Thanks for the tip.

[Marvin7]

I've gotten used to the opposite. Ortho on by default but shift to temporarily disable it. Either way works. Yeah, there's a 1/2 second delay.

[tzframpton]

I've gotten used to the opposite. Ortho on by default but shift to temporarily disable it. Either way works. Yeah, there's a 1/2 second delay.

I wonder if there's a variable to control the time delay? Or even the registry? I searched TEMPOVERRIDES (the system variable that controls the Shift toggle for Orthomode) in the registry and found some options, but no time delay. I wonder if there's a generic time delay string value that could be used?

 

Any programmers on here that care to weigh in on this inquiry?

[rkent]

You might try setting POLAR on instead of using ORTHO. I still prefer ORTHO personally but many swear by POLAR.