- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying
in our ground floor plan dot DWG file.
And we've done a little bit of drafting
using some simple drafting tools.
We've also discussed things
like Ortho, Osnap, Polar, et cetera.
So we've got some tools available to us now
to draft reasonably effectively.
What I also want to show you
is a different way of zooming and panning
so that you can navigate more effectively as well.
And it's part of your sort of simple drafting,
simple drawing tool kit within AutoCAD.
It's always useful to know this,
because sometimes you might need to use it
in a specific AutoCAD situation.
So real time zoom and real time pan
are available on the right click on the shortcut menu.
So just do a double click on the wheel first.
And what that'll do is zoom
to the visible extents in the drawing.
And then with no commands or object selected,
just right click, and you can see there
that we've got pan and zoom.
So I'd like you to click on Pan in the shortcut menu.
And you'll see the little hand appears.
Now you'll notice this time,
instead of the hand being clenched like it is
when you use the wheel, what'll happen now is,
when you move the hand over a point in the drawing,
and then left click, can you see the hand grabs the drawing
and you're kind of pulling the drawing with the hand.
And when you release, it stops pulling,
and you can move the hand elsewhere.
So that's real time pan, like so.
So click, hold, drag, release.
And as you can see, it just keeps doing it.
And you stay in real time pan.
How'd you get out of real time pan though?
It's a right click.
Again, context extensive shortcut menu.
So now I can go to zoom, like so.
And you'll notice I've got a magnifying glass.
Now, if I want to do a real time zoom,
I hold down the left hand mouse button, and I move upwards,
and you'll see the little plus sign
indicating I'm getting in closer.
And as I move downwards, it's a negative symbol.
So I can position myself somewhere on the drawing.
Get up to the top there.
Release the mouse button.
Magnifying glass stays there.
I'm still in real time zoom.
Bring the zoom magnifying glass elsewhere,
hold down the left hand mouse button again to move up.
And I'm now zooming in a bit more.
And I can keep doing this
until I'm zoomed into where I want to be.
I'm now still in real time zoom though,
so I can right click.
And I can either zoom window,
zoom original or zoom extends.
So if I zoom extends, that takes me back out to there.
I'm still in real time zoom though.
If I right click, I can zoom window.
And then I can click and drag a window
over the area I want to zoom into,
and it zooms me into that area.
I can right click,
and go back to zoom original if I want to.
Zooms me back to the original view where I started from.
And then it's just a case of right click and exit,
unless I want to pan again or possibly do some 3D orbiting.
We're not in a 3D drawing, it's a flat 2D drawing,
so you shouldn't really need it.
So I'm just going to click on Exit,
and we're back into the drawing area again,
ready to start drafting again.