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Using zoom and pan to navigate in your AutoCAD drawings

Using zoom and pan to navigate in your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using zoom and pan to navigate in your AutoCAD drawings

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- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now, and we're going to be taking a look at creating some simple geometry in an AutoCAD DWG file. For that reason, we've got a new drawing file for you. It's called geometry.dwg. You may recognize it when you open it. It's the floor plan that we've used in previous chapters, just with a different file name, and you should be in the model tab, bottom-left corner of your AutoCAD application window. So if you're in the model tab, you're in the right place, and you can see the floor plan on the screen. Now, as I said, we're going to be looking at creating some simple geometry in an AutoCAD drawing, but before you do that, you need to be able to navigate in your AutoCAD drawings. Now, to do that, you simply move the cross hair around using the mouse. Get the cross hair to where you want to zoom to. I'm going to put it over that table there in roughly the center of the screen. If I roll up on the mouse wheel, I zoom in. Each click of the mouse…

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