Auto assign a named view (model) to a viewport in a layout (LISP)

[fabio439049]

Hi everybody.

Scenario:

I use "multi pages" drawings where each page is on a different
area in model space and on a different layer too.
When I create a new drawing I choose how many pages
I want and the LISP routine I wrote (ages ago) creates
as many named views and layers as pages, each one with just
the page number as name ("1", "2", etc).

Till now I've been using another LISP self made routine
to batch print but now I would like to take advantage
of the publish printing to easily get a multipage PDF.

But this needs layouts to use them as sheets so I modified
my old routine and now it creates as many layouts as pages too.

Now I'm looking for a way to automatically assign the named view "1"
to the single viewport in (or of?) the layout "1"; the named view "2"
to the vieport of the layout "2" and so on.

But, having never used paper space and vieports before I'm a bit lost.

I hope somebody will point me to the right direction.

I searched the forums but I didn't find an answer.

Thanks for your attention.

fabio

[irneb]

Loop through your tabs by setting the CTab variable to each (you can get a list of tab names with the layoutlist function). Then in each isse the command MSpace to ensure you're inside the viewport. If you've got more than one viewport on any one tab, the CVport sysvar is 1 for the paper space itself, 2 through N for the rest. Then use the command view and its command-line Restore option to restore the saved view. Issue the PSpace command to return out of the viewport's model space, then setvar CTab to the next layout tab name.

There are probably ways of doing it without calling commands, but that would be quite a lot of hacking