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Using real-time zoom and real-time pan

Using real-time zoom and real-time pan - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using real-time zoom and real-time pan

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We're staying in our ground floor plan.dwg file and up until now we've obviously been adding new geometry to the drawing, adding our tables, adding our landscaped area, adding our nice wiggly curvy spline wall as well. Now what we're going to look at now is another way of zooming and moving around the drawing and it's based around the right click shortcut menu on the mouse and it's incredibly useful when you're doing a lot of close-up work and you're going in and out zooming in and out of your drawings. So with no commands or objects selected just right click and you'll see on the shortcut menu you've got pan and zoom that's real-time pan and real-time zoom. Click on pan first you'll see the hand appear like we've used pan before but the hand is open so you move the hand to where you want it to go in the drawing hold down the left hand mouse button it grips the drawing and it pans from that point can you see the hand is kind of hanging on to the back of the sofa there now the good…

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