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Panning and Zooming to Adjust Your View  21
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.
Dynamic This changes the display to an overall view. A rectangle also appears, which
lets you select an area to which to zoom in. To change the size of the rectangle, click the
rectangle. You can adjust the size of the rectangle and thus change the size of the zoom
area. Click again to fix the rectangle size. Right-click, and choose Enter to zoom in to the
selected area.
Scale This lets you zoom in or out by a specific value. It allows you to enter a specific
view scale.
Center This allows you to center a location on the screen.
Object This lets you select a view area based on the area occupied by an object. For
example, if you want to zoom in so that a particular object fills the display area, use
this option.
In This is the same as using the Scale option and entering 2x to magnify your view
two times.
Out This is the same as using the Scale option and entering 0.5x to view twice the cur-
rent view area.
You can also start a zoom or pan by clicking the magnifying glass icon or hand icon in the
status bar, or right-click and select Zoom or Pan at any time. You can right-click in the middle
of a zoom to switch to a pan, and vice versa.
You’ve just about completed your first look at AutoCAD. You’ll want to know about
just a couple of other features. In the next section, I’ll introduce a display feature in
AutoCAD that helps you set up your drawing for printing.
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