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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition
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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition

by Ralph Grabowski
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
15h 31m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 5

A Zoom with a View

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Zooming and panning

Bullet Naming and restoring views

Bullet Zooming and panning in paper space layouts

Bullet Regenerating the display

One advantage that AutoCAD has over manual drafting is its capability to show you different views of drawings.

You move the viewpoint in, or zoom in, to see a closer view of objects in the 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 refers not to looking for gold but to 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 to see other parts, without zooming in and out. Think of the monitor as a window through which you look at part of the drawing. Now reach through the window and slide the drawing around until you see a different portion of it through the window.

Panning and zooming do not change the size or position of objects in the drawing. The actions ...

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