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Using Realtime Zoom and Realtime Pan

Using Realtime Zoom and Realtime Pan - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2023 Essential Training

Using Realtime Zoom and Realtime Pan

- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our ground floor plan dot DWG file. And we've done a little bit of drafting using some simple drafting tools. We've also discussed things like Ortho, Osnap, Polar, et cetera. So we've got some tools available to us now to draft reasonably effectively. What I also want to show you is a different way of zooming and panning so that you can navigate more effectively as well. And it's part of your sort of simple drafting, simple drawing tool kit within AutoCAD. It's always useful to know this, because sometimes you might need to use it in a specific AutoCAD situation. So real time zoom and real time pan are available on the right click on the shortcut menu. So just do a double click on the wheel first. And what that'll do is zoom to the visible extents in the drawing. And then with no commands or object selected, just right click, and you can see there that we've got pan and…

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