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Modify display settings in AutoCAD

Modify display settings in AutoCAD - PointSense Basic Tutorial

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Modify display settings in AutoCAD

- [Instructor] When you're working with point clouds inside AutoCAD, there's some settings that we need to look at to make sure that we get the optimum performance from AutoCAD. So let's take a look at some options and we're going to make a few changes. So here we have our point cloud loaded into AutoCAD. So just a few points of interest. It works the same way as AutoCAD, preferably use a wheeled mouse for this, if you zoom in and out using your wheel button, that should be fine. And you can also use the navigation bar that loads with AutoCAD, so if you want to use an orbit, you can use the orbit from here. Just click the orbit button. And then place that somewhere in your point cloud and you can rotate that around. Now there's one important set that I want you to notice. When you're actually using the orbit button, AutoCAD uses that by default in auto orbit, so it looks at the component that you are placing, and it determines what the best central location is to rotate that component…

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