Zoom commands

- [Instructor] Not everything that we draw can fit…on our screen at the same time.…So it's important we get comfortable…with the zooming in and out of our workspace,…so that we can get to the work 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.…I liken this to trying to pick up a cup…with your arms stretched all the way out…holding a chopstick 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 item, under Zoom.…I'm not going to go through every single one of these,…but there are a few I do want to focus on.…Zoom by Scale allows you type in a numeric value…to zoom in or out from.…You can type in something like point five to zoom out,…or something like two to zoom in.…Anything bigger than one will zoom in.…Anything smaller than one will zoom out.…

Another handy tool is Zoom Window.…