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Using the Zoom command to navigate

Using the Zoom command to navigate

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Using the Zoom command to navigate

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In this video I'll discuss the zoom command and many of it's options. Autocad has the capacity to zoom in indefinitely without a loss of quality. This is in contrast to a program like Adobe Photoshop which is a raster program. In a raster program you zoom in and you'll find the pixels that the image is made of. In AutoCad, when you zoom in, you just keep going. You never run into pixels. That's because AutoCAD is a vector program, and it's fundamentally based on math. The math is what's behind these objects. A line is defined by its endpoints. And that means you can zoom in basically infinitely. You can keep going in or out, and that's why AutoCAD can be used for Astrophysics all the way down to circuit design. Very small things. Let's go ahead and open the architectural drawing in the chapter 3 folder and go ahead and pan around the drawing, by dragging the mouse wheel. My favorite method of zooming is to rotate the mouse wheel. I'm going to rotate the mouse wheel and zoom in. But…

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