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Panning and Zooming to Adjust Your View
One of the greatest features of AutoCAD is its ability to draw accurately through a wide
range of scales. For example, you can draw a football field, zoom into a blade of grass,
and draw its cell structure. With such a broad range of views to work with, you need to be
familiar with AutoCAD’s view features. The Zoom and Pan commands are the most fre-
quently used view features, so you’ll want to become familiar with them right away.
If you have a typical mouse with a scroll wheel, you can use the wheel to zoom in
and out of your drawing view. You can also use it to pan across your drawing. To zoom,
scroll the wheel. To pan, click and drag the scroll wheel. You can obtain just about any
view you need by using this method. You’ll also want to know about several other view-
related tools.
Try the following exercise to see how the Zoom tool works:
1. Click the magnifying glass icon in the Home tab’s Utilities panel to open the Zoom
flyout.
2. Select Window from the Zoom flyout.
Click the Zoom flyout arrowhead,
and select Zoom Window
If you have a mouse that uses special drivers, you might not be able to use the wheel to con-
trol pans and zooms.
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