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)