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AutoCAD Display and BasicSelection Operations

THE ZOOM COMMAND

The ability to magnify details in a drawing or demagnify the drawing to see it in itsentirety is a function of the

ZOOM

command. It does not take much for a drawing tobecome very busy, complicated, or dense when displayed in the drawing editor. There-fore, use the

ZOOM

command to work on details or view different parts of the drawing.One way to select the options of this command is from the View pull-down menu asshown in Figure 3–1. Choosing Zoom displays the various options of the

ZOOM

com-mand. These options include zooming in real time, zooming the previous display,using a window to define a boxed area to zoom to, dynamic zooming, zooming to auser-defined scale factor, zooming based on a center point and a scale factor, or per-forming routine operations such as zooming in or out, zooming all, or zooming theextents of the drawing. All of these modes will be discussed in the pages that follow.

Figure 3–1

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A second way to choose options of the

ZOOM

command is through the Standard toolbararea at the top of the display screen. Figure 3–2 shows a series of buttons that performvarious options of the

ZOOM

command. Four main buttons initially appear in theStandard toolbar, namely Realtime PAN, Realtime ZOOM, ZOOM-Window, andZOOM-Previous. Pressing down on the ZOOM-Window option displays a seriesof additional zoom option buttons that cascade down. See Figure 3–2 for the mean-ing of each button. Click on the button to perform the desired zoom operation.

Figure 3–2

Figure 3–3 shows a third method of performing

ZOOM

command options using thededicated Zoom floating toolbar. This toolbar contains the same buttons found inthe Standard toolbar; it differs in the fact that the toolbar in Figure 3–3 can be movedto different positions around the display screen. You can also activate the

ZOOM

commandfrom the keyboard by entering either

ZOOM

or the letter

, which is its command alias.

Figure 3–3

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AutoCAD Display and Selection Operations

Figure 3–4 is a complex drawing of a part that consists of all required orthographic views.To work on details of this and other drawings, use the

ZOOM

command to magnify ordemagnify the display screen. The following are the options of the

ZOOM

command:

Command:

(For ZOOM)

Specify corner of window, enter a scale factor (nX or nXP), or[All/Center/Dynamic/Extents/Previous/Scale/Window] <real time>:

(enter one of the listed options)

Executing the

ZOOM

command and picking a blank part of the screen places you inautomatic ZOOM-Window mode. Selecting another point zooms in to the speci-fied area. Refer to the following command sequence to use this mode of the

ZOOM

command on the object illustrated in Figure 3–4.

Command:

(For ZOOM)

Specify corner of window, enter a scale factor (nX or nXP), or[All/Center/Dynamic/Extents/Previous/Scale/Window] <real time>:

(Mark a point at “A”)

Other corner:

(Mark a point at “B”)

Figure 3–4

The ZOOM-Window option is automatically invoked once you select a blank partof the screen and then pick a second point. The resulting magnified portion of thescreen appears in Figure 3–5.