From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Zoom to fit tricks

Zoom to fit tricks

- [Instructor] For this weeks SolidWorks tip, I'm going to show you something that is very simple but it's actually extremely useful. Now, if you are probably using a mouse, you've got a middle mouse button and, of course, we can scroll to zoom in and zoom out of our model and sometimes you might actually scroll completely off the screen and you might have lost your model. Now, of course you can come up here to the top of the screen and click on the Zoom to Fit right there. Notice that little F that shows up next to the icon there and so, if you have it off screen you can hit F on your keyboard, it brings it right back, but there's also one other method for bringing or fitting whatever your model is to your screen and that is just double tapping, or double clicking, your middle mouse button. So, I'm going to go ahead and just zoom off the screen, click click, my middle mouse button, and it comes right back. So, there's three different ways to do Zoom to Fit and that middle mouse…

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