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26 Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with AutoCAD
3. Click the first point indicated in Figure 1.11. You don’t have to be too accurate.
4. Click the second point indicated in Figure 1.11. The area you selected expands to
fill the drawing area. Notice that the transition to the zoomed view is smooth. This
helps you keep track of exactly where in the drawing the zoom occurs.
5. Right-click, and select Pan. Notice that the cursor changes to a hand icon .
6. Click and drag the cursor in the drawing area. Notice how the view moves as you
drag the cursor.
7. Press Esc to exit the Pan command. You can also right-click and choose Exit from
the shortcut menu.
8. Finally, to get your original view of the overall drawing, open the zoom flyout again
as you did in step 1 and select Previous.
Several other Zoom- and Pan-related commands exist, but those you’ve just tried are
the ones you’ll use 90 percent of the time. You can try the other Zoom and Pan options
that you saw in the magnifying glass icon flyout in the Utilities panel. You’ll also find
options in the Zoom command-line options list:
[All/Center/Dynamic/Extents/Previous/Scale/Window/Object] <real time>:
Here is a list of the options you’ll find in the magnifying glass icon flyout:
Extents This displays a view that encompasses all the objects in your drawing. This
option ignores the limits of your drawing.
Previous This displays the previous view, just as Undo does for the Zoom command.
Realtime This is the default Zoom option. It displays a magnifying glass cursor. With this
option, you can click and drag up or down to change your magnification in real time.
You can right-click to access the other Zoom options, including Exit and Cancel.
All This displays the area of your drawing defined by the drawing limits plus any part of
your drawing that falls outside the limits.
Figure 1.11
Selecting a Zoom
window
Click this location first
to start the Zoom window
Then click this location
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