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Regenerating and redrawing

Regenerating and redrawing - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Regenerating and redrawing

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- [Instructor] Occasionally, after zooming in and out and in and out and panning all around your drawing, AutoCAD needs to take a second and rethink about what it's displaying on the screen. This is where redraw and regenerate or regen come in handy. Redraw is a holdover and was once a little bit more useful that it is today, mostly for a feature called blip mode, a command that's no longer really active. Regen, however, is still very useful. Regen recalculates all the geometry for all the entities on the screen while also re-indexing the drawing database for optimum display. In laymen's terms, AutoCAD needs to take a breath, look at everything that's on the screen and make sure it's displayed how it should be. For example, I'm going to use the circle tool and draw a very small circle right there. I'm going to zoom in on it, and we can see that my circle looks very, very segmented. I'm going to enter a region, type in…

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