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.

image\PRCARROW.gif To zoom in or out

1. Choose the Zoom Tool.

2. Either:

image\BULLET.gif to zoom in, click on the document (see less of the document but in greater detail),

image\BULLET.gif or to zoom out, Shift-click on the document (see more of the document in less detail),

image\BULLET.gif or to view a specific area, drag across the area.

Tips

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

image\BULLET.gif 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.

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

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

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

image\BULLET.gif 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.

image\BULLET.gif 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