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Working with Minimap

Working with Minimap - BIM 360 Tutorial

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Working with Minimap

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- [Narrator] Minimap is a tool that helps you navigate when viewing in 2D. Let's see how it works. I'm going to open the A3.1 pdf sheet. And what I should see when I zoom in is the Minimap pop up, right in this area, and you can see that it's not. So if you've closed it down or if you've gone into settings and turned it off, you'll need to turn it on for this demonstration. So to do that, I'll go into Settings and then Navigation. Scroll down a bit and you'll see the Minimap option here. So I'll just turn that on, close down settings. And now, when I zoom in, the Minimap should pop up. Now, the way Minimap works as I zoom in more and more closely, the red rectangle shows me what area of the entire drawing I'm zoomed into. Now, you can move this Minimap window around on your screen but I can't go outside my browser or outside the viewing area of the drawing. Now, one of the neat features of Minimap is that I can take…

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