Hello! I am investigating possibilities for result display adjustment and I found Utilities/Views Based On CoordX . Running this utility does not produce any PCL output. Is it possible to run this through PCL?
I've been away and so missed your reply in an earlier post.
You can probably use the Local view utility to do what you want. I set this to record standard patran commands in the session file to guarantee it was always replayable, so it does not record the inherent ajh_view... calls. I hope these calls will help you to do what you want:
ui_exec_function("ajh_view_local","init")
ajh_view_local.get_current_view()
$ this sets Local view to use coord xx as its reference
ajh_view_local.cid("Coord 0")
ajh_view_local.apply_transforms()
$ this applies a predefined view using the local view reference frame : front_view, rear_view, top_view, bottom_view, left_side, right_side, isometric1, isometric2, isometric3, isometric4. e.g:
ajh_view_local.top_view()
Note these ten views are the same as the standard home tool bar (but using the reference frame), but they can be changed using:
ajh_view_local.set_view_viewsZ_Y(viewsZ_Y)
where viewsZ_Y is a "Real viewsZ_Y(10,6)" each of the ten views is defined using an x,y,z with respect to the reference frame for the observer position (screen Z) and the screen Y (top of screen). You can get the defaults using:
yes, the local view stuff was added into the standard utilities in 2023.
To use it in 2022 you can try copying the "utilities.plb" file from the 2023 install (e.g. C:\Program Files\MSC.Software\Patran_x64\20233\shareware\msc\unsupported\utilities\plb\utilities.plb ) to the 2022 install. I think this will be unlikely to cause any issues but make a backup copy of the origial plb before doing so in case you need to revert to it.
