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Zoom Selected

Zoom Selected

- [Narrator] We're staying in our 04_zoomcommanddrawing and we're going to look now at another zoom command in DraftSite called zoom selected. Now I love this command because it means that I can select an entity to zoom to rather than something like zoom window or zoom fit or zoom bounds. So, I can go and pick on my sofa sitting there in the middle of my drawing and I can zoom to that sofa or I can pick a door and I can zoom to a door or I can pick a grid line and zoom to a grid line; all of it will allow me to zoom to the entity I select. It's very quick and easy to do. You go up to the view tab on the ribbon, into the navigate panel once again and click on the fly out and there's zoom selected. So, I'll select zoom selected if you'll pardon the pun. Click on it and you've got a pick box there. So, if I go and pick on my sofa now which is a block in the DraftSite drawing and I press enter, it zooms me into the sofa so I can work on the sofa in more detail. If I double click on the…

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