From 1816f88575bad5b3dd623a298e720ebf83e52632 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Georg Hansen <mike@mghansen.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:56:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Reuse projection settings from an existing view when creating
 new draft views.

Select a draft object and a view on a drawing page, then the view created for
the draft object will have the same projection settings as the selected view.
---
 src/Mod/Draft/Draft.py      | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 src/Mod/Draft/DraftTools.py |  8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Mod/Draft/Draft.py b/src/Mod/Draft/Draft.py
index 422bed2bb..ddffd2d7f 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Draft/Draft.py
+++ b/src/Mod/Draft/Draft.py
@@ -2154,7 +2154,7 @@ def getrgb(color,testbw=True):
                 col = "#000000"
     return col
 
-def makeDrawingView(obj,page,lwmod=None,tmod=None):
+def makeDrawingView(obj,page,lwmod=None,tmod=None,otherProjection=None):
     '''
     makeDrawingView(object,page,[lwmod,tmod]) - adds a View of the given object to the
     given page. lwmod modifies lineweights (in percent), tmod modifies text heights
@@ -2174,12 +2174,27 @@ def makeDrawingView(obj,page,lwmod=None,tmod=None):
         viewobj = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("Drawing::FeatureViewPython","View"+obj.Name)
         _DrawingView(viewobj)
         page.addObject(viewobj)
-        if hasattr(page.ViewObject,"HintScale"):
-            viewobj.Scale = page.ViewObject.HintScale
-        if hasattr(page.ViewObject,"HintOffsetX"):
-            viewobj.X = page.ViewObject.HintOffsetX
-        if hasattr(page.ViewObject,"HintOffsetY"):
-            viewobj.Y = page.ViewObject.HintOffsetY
+        if (otherProjection):
+            FreeCAD.Console.PrintWarning("using otherProjection")
+            if hasattr(otherProjection,"Scale"):
+                FreeCAD.Console.PrintWarning(otherProjection.Scale)
+                viewobj.Scale = otherProjection.Scale
+            if hasattr(otherProjection,"X"):
+                viewobj.X = otherProjection.X
+            if hasattr(otherProjection,"Y"):
+                viewobj.Y = otherProjection.Y
+            if hasattr(otherProjection,"Rotation"):
+                viewobj.Rotation = otherProjection.Rotation
+            if hasattr(otherProjection,"Direction"):
+                FreeCAD.Console.PrintWarning(otherProjection.Direction)
+                viewobj.Direction = otherProjection.Direction
+        else:
+            if hasattr(page.ViewObject,"HintScale"):
+                viewobj.Scale = page.ViewObject.HintScale
+            if hasattr(page.ViewObject,"HintOffsetX"):
+                viewobj.X = page.ViewObject.HintOffsetX
+            if hasattr(page.ViewObject,"HintOffsetY"):
+                viewobj.Y = page.ViewObject.HintOffsetY
         viewobj.Source = obj
         if lwmod: viewobj.LineweightModifier = lwmod
         if tmod: viewobj.TextModifier = tmod
diff --git a/src/Mod/Draft/DraftTools.py b/src/Mod/Draft/DraftTools.py
index 211da2552..a4cf5cf0c 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Draft/DraftTools.py
+++ b/src/Mod/Draft/DraftTools.py
@@ -3150,6 +3150,12 @@ class Drawing(Modifier):
                         self.page = obj
             if not self.page:
                 self.page = self.createDefaultPage()
+            otherProjection = None
+            for obj in sel:
+                FreeCAD.Console.PrintWarning(obj)
+                if obj.isDerivedFrom("Drawing::FeatureView"):
+                    otherProjection = obj
+            FreeCAD.Console.PrintWarning(otherProjection)
             sel.reverse() 
             for obj in sel:
                 if obj.ViewObject.isVisible():
@@ -3158,7 +3164,7 @@ class Drawing(Modifier):
                     #oldobj = self.page.getObject(name)
                     #if oldobj: 
                     #    self.doc.removeObject(oldobj.Name)
-                    Draft.makeDrawingView(obj,self.page)
+                    Draft.makeDrawingView(obj,self.page,None,None,otherProjection)
             self.doc.recompute()
 
     def createDefaultPage(self):