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Display Modes

View is a combination of the size, position and orientation of a drawing fragment on the screen.

There are different tools and methods allowing you to orient in the document when you edit it. You can zoom or pan the working area for visual control of changes in the document; you can save a selected view for further display or printing; you can separate the working area of a document into several non-overlapping viewports to display different drawing fragments at the same time.

The main methods to change the document display on the screen are zooming and panning.

Zoom command enlarges the view of a drawing segment for better detailing or decreases it to display more of the drawing. Absolute sizes are not changed during zooming.

Pan command allows you to pan the drawing without decreasing or enlarging it.

Zoom and Pan commands are available in the View – Zoom menu or on the Zoom toolbar. For your convenience, most frequently used commands are on the Main toolbar and in the status bar.

CAD drafting Display Modes 0 CAD software Display Modes 1

For more convenience, the most often used commands are also available in the Main toolbar and in the status bar.

note: You can zoom using the mouse wheel. Moving the mouse with the wheel pressed and held allows panning.

 

Pan Command

CAD drawing Display Modes 2    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD drafting Display Modes 3 Pan

CAD software Display Modes 4   Menu: View – Zoom > CAD drawing Display Modes 5 Pan

CAD drafting Display Modes 6   Toolbar: Main – CAD software Display Modes 7

CAD drawing Display Modes 8   Status bar CAD drafting Display Modes 9

CAD software Display Modes 10 Command line: PAN, VIEWPAN

The mode to pan the image, occurs when you move the cursor with pressed left button, the image is moved dynamically to horizontal, vertical and diagonal directions. The scale of the document is not changed.

After starting the command, the cursor has the CAD drawing Display Modes 11shape.

With the left button pressed, the cursor has the CAD drafting Display Modes 12 shape.

To exit from pan mode, press the ESC or ENTER buttons.

Zoom

CAD software Display Modes 13    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD drawing Display Modes 14 Realtime

CAD drafting Display Modes 15   Menu: View – Zoom > CAD software Display Modes 16 Zoom Dynamic

CAD drawing Display Modes 17   Toolbar: Main – CAD drafting Display Modes 18

CAD software Display Modes 19   Status bar CAD drawing Display Modes 20 

CAD drafting Display Modes 21 Command line: ZOOMD, VIEWZOOMDYNAMIC

Turns on the mode in which you can increase an object’s size on the screen by moving the mouse up and decrease it by moving it down.

After starting the command from the View menu or Main toolbar, the cursor has the CAD software Display Modes 22.shape.

When you release the button the zoom stops; you can move the cursor to another position and press the button again to continue zooming in a new position.

To exit from the zoom mode, press the ESC or ENTER buttons.

If you start the command in the status bar (buttonCAD drawing Display Modes 23), the following options are available:

Specify corner of window or
[
All/Center/Dynamic/Extents /Scale/RScale/Window/Object] <real time>:

Command options:

All

Displays the entire document, even if some objects are outside the specified limits. Not only drawing limits, but also document limits are taken into account in this mode:

CAD drafting Display Modes 24

Center

Places the image in the center of the screen. Scale of the document is not changed, only the image is panned.

Displays the image in the center in the specified point with given scaling coefficient or height.

Identical to launching the CAD software Display Modes 25 Center command.

Setting height value less than current one leads to image increase. Setting larger value results in image reduction

Dynamic

Changes scale of the image on the screen in real time.

The cursor’s movement enlarges the image on the screen, if the left button of mouse is pressed and the cursor goes. The image decreases on the screen, if the left button of the mouse is pressed and the cursor goes down.

Extents

Displays the entire document inside its borders. Borders of the specified document limits are not taken into account (in comparison with All):

CAD drawing Display Modes 26

Scale

Changes the scale of the document using the precise scale factor.

The image on the screen is decreased or increased according to the specified document limits and the value.

RScale

Changes the document scale using the precise scale factor.

The image on the screen is decreased or increased relative to the limits of the current document view and according to the specified value.

Window

Specifies display area of the document using two opposite corners of a rectangular frame.

Object

Displays selected objects of the document on the screen. Select one or several objects on the screen after you select the Object option. The image is displayed after all objects are selected and the ENTER button is pressed.

If objects were selected beforehand – the display of image is reconstructed after the Object option is selected.

Realtime

CAD drafting Display Modes 27    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD software Display Modes 28 Realtime

CAD drawing Display Modes 29    Menu: View – Navigation > CAD drafting Display Modes 30 Zoom realtime

CAD software Display Modes 31    Toolbars: Main, Navigate – CAD drawing Display Modes 32

CAD drafting Display Modes 33    Status Bar – CAD software Display Modes 34

CAD drawing Display Modes 35 Command line: ZOOMD, VIEWZOOMDYNAMIC

Turns on the interactive image zooming mode, in which moving the mouse cursor with the left button pressed and held up the screen enlarges the view on the screen, and moving downward – reduces it.

After starting the command from the View menu or the Main toolbar, the cursor looks as follows: CAD drafting Display Modes 36.

Releasing the mouse button suspends the zoom, you can move the cursor to a different position, and then click again to continue zooming in the new position.

To exit the zoom mode, press ESC or ENTER.

note: In addition, it is convenient to zoom in by rotating the mouse wheel. In this case, the zoom step can be set in the Mouse settings – 3D Orbit settings – Mouse wheel to rotate 3D orbit of the Options dialog, box

Window

CAD software Display Modes 37    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD drawing Display Modes 38 Window

CAD drafting Display Modes 39    Menu: View – Navigation > CAD software Display Modes 40 Zoom Window

CAD drawing Display Modes 41    Toolbars: Main, Navigation – CAD drafting Display Modes 42

CAD software Display Modes 43    Status bar – CAD drawing Display Modes 44

CAD drafting Display Modes 45 Command line: ZOOMW

Sets the display area of the document by specifying two opposite corners of a rectangular frame.

In the process of specifying, for precise positioning of the window, it is convenient to use a one-time object snap from the context menu calling it by clicking the right mouse button while holding CTRL (or SHIFT).

Scale

CAD software Display Modes 46    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD drawing Display Modes 47 Scale

CAD drafting Display Modes 48    Menu: View – Navigation > CAD software Display Modes 49 Zoom scale

CAD drawing Display Modes 50    Toolbar: Navigation – CAD drafting Display Modes 51

Changes the scale (zoom rate) of a document by specifying the exact scale factor.

The screen image is enlarged or reduced by a specified value relative to the specified document limits.

 

Zoom 1:1

CAD software Display Modes 52    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD drawing Display Modes 53 Zoom 1:1

CAD drafting Display Modes 54   Menu: View – Zoom > CAD software Display Modes 55 Zoom 1:1

CAD drawing Display Modes 56 Command line: ZOOM1, VIEWZOOM1X1

An image is scaled so that one pixel on the screen corresponds to one image point according to the specified DPI value.

Zoom Center

CAD drafting Display Modes 57    Ribbon: View – Zoom > CAD software Display Modes 58 Center

CAD drawing Display Modes 59    Menu: View – Zoom > CAD drafting Display Modes 60 Center

CAD software Display Modes 61    Toolbar: Zoom – CAD drawing Display Modes 62

Displays image in the center in the specified point with given scaling coefficient or height.

Command prompts:

Specify center point:

Enter magnification or height <200.00>:

First specify the point that will be the center of zoomed fragment, and then set magnification or height. One can enter numeric value in the command line or determine height by specifying two points on the screen.

Setting height value less than current one leads to image increase. Setting larger value results in image reduction.

Zoom All

CAD drafting Display Modes 63    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD software Display Modes 64 Zoom All

CAD drawing Display Modes 65   Menu: View – Zoom > CAD drafting Display Modes 66 Zoom All

CAD software Display Modes 67   Toolbar: Main – CAD drawing Display Modes 68

CAD drafting Display Modes 69   Status bar: CAD software Display Modes 70

CAD drawing Display Modes 71 Hotkeys: ALT+0

CAD drafting Display Modes 72 Command line: ZOOMALL, VIEWZOOMALL

Displays the whole document, even if some objects are outside the specified limits.

Zoom Selected

CAD software Display Modes 73    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD drawing Display Modes 74 Zoom Object

CAD drafting Display Modes 75   Menu: View – Zoom > CAD software Display Modes 76 Zoom Selected

CAD drawing Display Modes 77   Toolbar: Main – CAD drafting Display Modes 78

CAD software Display Modes 79 Command line: FITSEL, FITSELECTED

Displays the selected objects.

Zoom Window

CAD drawing Display Modes 80    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD drafting Display Modes 81 Zoom Window

CAD software Display Modes 82   Menu: View – Zoom > CAD drawing Display Modes 83 Zoom Window

CAD drafting Display Modes 84   Toolbar: Main – CAD software Display Modes 85

CAD drawing Display Modes 86   Status bar CAD drafting Display Modes 87

CAD software Display Modes 88 Command line: ZOOMW

Selects an area on the screen, the area is specified with two opposite corners of the rectangular frame.

Zoom In

CAD drawing Display Modes 89    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD drafting Display Modes 90 Zoom In

CAD software Display Modes 91   Menu: View – Zoom > CAD drawing Display Modes 92 Zoom In

CAD drafting Display Modes 93 Command line: ZOOMIN

Doubles the scale.

Zoom Out

CAD software Display Modes 94    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD drawing Display Modes 95 Zoom Out

CAD drafting Display Modes 96   Menu: View – Zoom > CAD software Display Modes 97 Zoom Out

CAD drawing Display Modes 98 Command line: ZOOMOUT

Decreases the scale by half.

Extents

CAD drafting Display Modes 99    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD software Display Modes 100 Extents

CAD drawing Display Modes 101    Menu: View – Navigation > CAD drafting Display Modes 102 Zoom Extents

CAD software Display Modes 103    Toolbar: Navigation – CAD drawing Display Modes 104

Displays the entire document on the screen within its extents.

In this mode of displaying a document (in contrast to the All option), the boundaries of the set document limits are not taken into account.

CAD drafting Display Modes 105    Ribbon: View – Navigate > CAD software Display Modes 106 Previous

CAD drawing Display Modes 107    Menu: View – Navigation > CAD drafting Display Modes 108 Zoom Previous

CAD software Display Modes 109    Toolbar: Navigation – CAD drawing Display Modes 110

Sequential display of previous views on the screen.

 

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