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Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts Tutorials
Zooming & Panning / Zoom Extents
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In the previous exercise we looked at Zoom All and how we could zoom to our Grid Limits using Zoom All. Now, what I've done here is I've left us zoomed in to those particular limits by way of the Zoom All Command, so as you can see our drawing looks quite small at the moment and that's because we're working within our Grid Limits. Now, the whole idea of the Zoom Command is to allow you to get close to your drawing, to zoom in and work with the detail on the drawing. So, what we do there again, I'm still using my Navigate Sticky Panel here, and I click on the down arrow here and I want to zoom to the extents of the objects that I've drawn. So as you can see there, AutoCAD tells you that it zooms in or out to display the extents of the drawing. So what it's doing there is it's zooming to the extents of the visible objects on the drawing. So, as soon as I hit Extents, it zooms to the extents of the objects on the drawing. Now, what you may find, if you look at the dimensions there, you can see they're touching the edge, and I might want to work with them, so you might want to just roll backwards one notch on your wheel mouse like so, after you've done a Zoom Extents. Now the good thing about Zoom Extents, what I really like about it, is you might be working on a really, really detailed drawing with lots of information, and you might zoom in using your wheel and zoom in just rolling the wheel mouse upwards like so, and you might get to a point where you think: I don't know where I am anymore. For example, this drawing might be so complicated that I just can't quite figure out where I am, so you go here to your pull down on your Navigate Panel and select Extents and it will always zoom you to the extents of the visible objects, so then you can ascertain where you are, orientate yourself again and start working on the drawing again. So, Zoom Extents is extremely useful. Also as well, you might just zoom in like this on a detail and you might think, OK. I've worked on that detail I now need to know what it looks like in the overall scheme of things, in the overall drawing. So what I can do then is Zoom Extents. Now, you'll notice it always goes back to the last Zoom Command that you executed, so I don't actually have to pick up the fly-out menu like this. I don't have to do that. Watch. I'll do a Zoom Extents there, I'll zoom back in again as if I was working on that detail; there's Extents there, I've used it before, I just click on the word Extents. It remembers the last Zoom Command that you performed, which is extremely useful because you might need to do two or three Extents, or two or three Zoom Alls. So, as you can see, Zoom Extents zooms to the extent of the visible objects on your drawing. It's a very good command for orientating yourself within a complicated drawing.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Autodesk AutoCAD 2010: Basic 2D Concepts |
| Author: | Shaun Bryant |
| SKU: | 34013 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-56-4 |
| Release Date: | 2009-07-03 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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