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Zoom commands

Zoom commands - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Zoom commands

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- [Instructor] Not everything that we draw can fit on our screen at the same time. So it's important we get comfortable with zooming in and out of our workspace so that we can get to the objects that we need to work on. Zooming around your drawing is an imperative skill. Too often I see drafters trying to select an object in a crowded drawing while zoomed out to a ridiculous degree. This is akin to trying to perform surgery with your arms outstretched and holding chopsticks in each hand, it's needlessly difficult. Never be afraid of zooming in, or out to find the optimum view. AutoCAD for Mac has a number of tools to help us. Under the view menu, under zoom we'll see some of them. I'm not going to go through every single one of these, but there are a few I want to touch on. Zoom by scale allows you to type in a numerical value to zoom in or out from. You can type in something like .5 to zoom out, or two to zoom in.…

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