From the course: Learning AutoCAD (2020)

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Using ZOOM and PAN

Using ZOOM and PAN - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using ZOOM and PAN

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our Polylines.dwg file. And you can see I've left it in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. What we're going to have a look at now is zoom and pan, and some of the other zoom tools that are available to you. Zoom and pan allow you to navigate your AutoCAD drawings and move around, so that you can get to places in your drawings rather than having to try and figure out a way to get there without using zoom and pan. Zoom and pan are fundamental to the navigation of AutoCAD drawings, and one of the simplest ways to zoom and pan is to use your mouse. So, using the mouse, I can position the crosshair, on a location where I might want to get to. Let's say the intersection of the spine and the polygon there. So I position the crosshair roughly where I want to be, and I roll up on the wheel of the mouse, and as you can see, it zooms me in, I roll back on the wheel of the mouse, and it…

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