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Zooming and panning

Zooming and panning - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Zooming and panning

- [Instructor] The drawing tools in AutoCAD for Mac, are designed to allow you to draft your objects in full one to one scale. As such, working in a space that is almost infinite, means that you need to master moving around. Which we accomplished by panning and zooming. Panning is similar to other programs and is signified with a small gloved hand. Can be found here, under the view menu, under pan. Real-time allows you to simply click and drag around your screen to change your view of your objects, without affecting the geometry in any way. On devices with a track pad, you can use two fingers to pan around your drawing or if you're using a mouse with a wheel, you can click and hold the wheel button in order to pan around your drawing. The complementary tool is zoom and it is also found under the view menu. There are 11 different options here and most are pretty self explanatory. Real-time allows you to click and drag in…

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