From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
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The mouse and mouse settings - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
The mouse and mouse settings
- [Instructor] So we're staying in our NavigatingDrawings3D.dwg file, and that particular file is, as I've stated, 3D with a little bit of extruded walls, as per the beginning of the chapter, but primarily we're looking at it from the top view on the view cube in plan. Now, the benefit that you have when you're working in AutoCAD is you have a fantastic human interface device. It's called a mouse. And that mouse can be set up to your advantage with particular mouse settings so that you can work in AutoCAD quickly and efficiently. Now you've got your default settings that automatically kick in when you install AutoCAD, so if you roll up and down on the wheel, you can zoom in, roll back on the wheel, you zoom out. If you hold down the wheel and move the mouse, you can pan around in your AutoCAD drawing. Now, that's very quick and easy because I can zoom in nice and tight into a view like that, and then pan a little bit and get to the place where I want to be in my AutoCAD drawing. What…
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