Zoom, Pan and templates - Introduction to AutoCAD 2011: 2D and 3D Design - page 86

Fig. 4.7 The Pan tool in action showing a part of the drawing, while the whole drawing is shown in

the Aerial View window.

N o t e s

1. If using a mouse with a wheel both zooms and pans can be
performed with the aid of the wheel. See page 8.

2. The Zoom tools are important in that they allow even the smallest
parts of drawings to be examined and, if necessary, amended or
modifi ed.

3. The zoom tools can be called from the sub-menu of the View drop-

down menu or by entering zoom or z at the command line. The easiest
of this choice is to enter z at the command line followed by a right-click .

4. Similarly the easiest method of calling the Pan tool is to enter p at
the command line followed by a right-click .

5. When constructing large drawings, the Pan tool and the Aerial View

window are of value for allowing work to be carried out in any part of a
drawing, while showing the whole drawing in the Aerial View window.

Drawing templates

In Chapters 1-3, drawings were constructed in the template acadiso.dwt
which loaded when AutoCAD 2011 was opened. The default acadiso
template has been amended to Limits set to 420,297 (coordinates within