From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Occupancy
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Drawing limits - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Occupancy
Drawing limits
- [Voiceover] Another thing that you can set in your FM settings is your drawing limits. So we're staying in the 00_GND_FM_SETTINGS.dwg file as I mentioned, we'll stay in this one for the entire chapter, and we need to look at our limits. Right now we are zoomed to extents in the Model tab in the drawing, so you can see the whole of the building, the whole of the floor that we're workin' on, the ground floor. Now, if you look over here we have a thing called the navigation bar, just here, and there's some zoom tools available. If I click on that flyout there, you can see there's various zooms available, so if I Zoom Extents, that'll actually zoom to the extents. If I do something like a Zoom Window for example, I can zoom in on a particular area, so I click, drag, click again, and it zooms in to the extents of the window. Now I can just use Undo up here to undo the last zoom if I want to, but it may be that you have various buildings and different spaces that you need to work with in…
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