Zooming in and out

You often want to view part of a document
in greater detail or view the entire document to see how the complete drawing looks. To achieve this, you can zoom in and out of the document. If you want to zoom in on your whole drawing, see Zooming to the whole drawing. If you want to zoom in on the selected objects, see Zooming to the selection.

To zoom in or out

1. Choose the Zoom Tool.

2. Either:

to zoom in, click on the document (see less of the document but in greater detail),

or to zoom out, Shift-click on the document (see more of the document in less detail),

or to view a specific area, drag across the area.

Tips

Zooming just changes your view onto the document. It does not change the actual size of objects in the document.

You can also zoom in or out using CTRL and '+' or '-' on the numeric keypad. You do not have to be in the Zoom Tool.

The text on the Status Line shows the zoom in and out values. This tells you the effect of a click or Shift-click.

You can also choose a zoom value from the Zoom drop-down list on the control bars. (See Zoom Magnification.)

You can easily go back to the last zoom magnification by using Previous Zoom. See Returning to the previous zoom.

If you press ALT+Z to select the Zoom Tool, you can press ALT+Z again to return to the previous tool. See Using the Zoom Tool temporarily.

If your mouse has a wheel:

click the wheel to center the view around the mouse pointer

or Shift-click to zoom out

or CTRL-click to zoom in

or hold down CTRL for variable zoom in (scroll the wheel up) or zoom out (wheel down).

Movie—click below (not working in this version)

Magnifying and moving documents

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