are grid views available through maxscript?

[_stev_]

viewport.setGridVisibility <viewport> <state>

<viewport> is the viewport number, and <state> is true or false.

Just type viewport into the listner and you'll see the structure functions available.

Stev

[antonv]

Thanks _stev_ but I wasn't looking for that. I wasn't clear in my previuous post!
What I am looking for is to set the view in a viewport to say to "front", "back", "left", "right" etc. but for the active grid not for the home grid. The only one that i found is the top view by doing this:

viewport.setType #view_grid

And I was wondering if it is possible to set the others as well!

Thanks,
Anton

[Deadalus]

$viewport.setgridvisibility = bool (true or false )

this will make the grid visible for the selected viewport.

[_stev_]

Thanks _stev_ but I wasn't looking for that. I wasn't clear in my previuous post!
What I am looking for is to set the view in a viewport to say to "front", "back", "left", "right" etc. but for the active grid not for the home grid. The only one that i found is the top view by doing this:

What about these?

viewport.setType #view_Front

viewport.setType #view_Back

viewport.setType #view_Left

viewport.setType #view_Right

viewport.setType #view_Bottom

viewport.setType #view_Top

[antonv]

_stev_, those are for the home grid. But if you have a custom grid then you cannot do it like that!

Try creating a custom grid and make it active. Then try those commands and the'll give you the views for the home grid!

[_stev_]

Ah, now I know exactly what you mean. I'm not sure if you can do that. Sorry.

Stev

[magicm]

viewport.setType operates on the current active viewport. To set all viewports to grid, you could try:

for v = 1 to viewport.numViews do
(
viewport.activeViewport = v
viewport.setType #view_grid
)

Martijn

[magicm]

Argh! forget the above.. Sorry I didn't read your question properly either..

I think that these grid types are indeed not accessible through maxscript.. I guess it should be relatively easy for a C programmer to write a maxscript extension for this though. Try posting your question on the Autodesk forums, maybe an SDK expert chimes in.

Cheers,
Martijn

[antonv]

Thanks for the tip Martjin. I figured a workaround and probably tonight I'll have the time to finalize it.

There is a set of commands for viewport that allow you to set the transform matrix for the view and if you assign it the inverse of the transform matrix of the agtive grid it will give you the top view for that grid. The rest is pretty easy if you have some knowledge of how to rotate the TM of the grid to give you all the other views.

Here is the line to get the topview of the active grid:

viewport.setTM (inverse(activegrid.transform))

[magicm]

Here is the line to get the topview of the active grid:
viewport.setTM (inverse(activegrid.transform))

Yeah that's what I came up with as well. Although it's not exactly the same thing as using the viewport menu it does align the view to the grid.

I had some spare time so I wrote a simple macroscript. Right now it shows a popupmenu with the view types, but feel free to rip out the function that does the actual work, and adjust it to your needs.

Cheers,
Martijn

[antonv]

Thanks Martjin, that helped!
The issue I have right now is that in all those views you cannot draw... So I guess your previus idea about the C++ extension is my last resort.

Thanks for the help guys!
Anton

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