Chapter 5
A Zoom with a View
IN THIS CHAPTER
Zooming and panning
Naming and restoring views
Zooming and panning in paper space layouts
Regenerating the display
One advantage that AutoCAD has over manual drafting is its ability to show you different views of a drawing.
You move the viewpoint in, or zoom in, to see a closer view of the objects in a drawing; you move the viewpoint out, or zoom out, to see a more expansive (not expensive) view. If you watch TV or movies or own a camera, you should understand zooming.
Panning doesn’t refer to looking for gold but rather, looking at a different part of a drawing without changing the magnification of the view. If you zoom in so that part of the drawing is no longer shown onscreen, you’ll pan around in the drawing without zooming in and out. Think of the monitor as a window through which you’re looking at part of the drawing. Now reach through the window and slide the drawing around until you can see a different portion of it through the window.
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