A Zoom with a View - AutoCAD 2012 - page 263

AutoCAD provides smooth view transitions whenever you use the non-realtime
pan and zoom commands. Sometimes you can get lost if you do a ZOOM All from a
small, highly magnified area. It's a bad idea to leave a trail of breadcrumbs across
your screen, so these slow-motion pans and zooms may be fine, at least until you
do know your way out of the forest . . . or your drawing. If, like me, you find that
this feature gets old fast, there's a View Transitions dialog box (type VTOPTIONS
to open it) in which you can turn it off. Just uncheck the Enable Animation for Pan
& Zoom option.
Some of the zoom options take some getting used to. I recommend that you use realtime
zoom and pan for most of your zooming and panning. Supplement it with Zoom Window
to move quickly into a precise area, Zoom Previous to go back in zoom/pan time, and
Zoom All or Zoom Extents to view your whole drawing.
If you're wondering about those other ZOOM command options — the ones I
suggest are less important (Dynamic, Center, Scale, In and Out), look up ZOOM in
the online help's command reference section. Zoom Dynamic is an old, old com-
mand option that's been made redundant by the Real Time option. As for the re-
maining options, and you can probably get to the view you want by deft move-
ments with your wheel mouse (you are using a wheel mouse, aren't you?)
A View by Any Other Name . . .
If you find yourself repeatedly zooming and panning to the same area, you can probably
get there faster with a named view. After you name and save a view of a particular area
of your drawing, you can return to that area quickly by restoring the view. You use the
VIEW command, which displays the View Manager dialog box, to create and restore
named views.
The View Manager manages shots as well as views. Views have been a part of
AutoCAD from very early days, but shots are a recent addition. While views are
static, shots are motion-based. (In regular AutoCAD, but not AutoCAD LT, you may