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[olecarman]

Autocad 2005 -- Why does "zoom all" not zoom in on all of my drawing?? Zoom extents gets it all, but not zoom all. I have checked to make sure I don't have any little dots or lines out in space around my drawing, but when I zoom all, it brings the drawing to about 80% of the screen size and not all of it..

Thanks,

[ReMark]

Maybe it has something to do with the settings of your limits?

[olecarman]

That did it... Duh.....

 

I was brain dead for a few minutes....

 

Thanks

[designerstuart]

why use zoom all anyway? zoom extents is the tool you need, isn't it? if you have a mouse wheel, press it twice for zoom extents. gotta be in the top 5 commands i use.

[Jack_O'neill]

It is a bit redundant to have both. Zoom all will zoom to the drawing limits, or it's current extents if you've drawn outside the limits in a plan view. In any of the 3d views, zoom all and zoom extents to the same thing. I use soom all occasionally to back out of a zoomed up position, but usually I just roll the scroll wheel to zoom in and out. Can't even tell you when the last time was that I used dynamic zoom.

[bjenk8100]

huh,

 

i like that press twice trick, never new that

[designerstuart]

huh,

 

i like that press twice trick, never new that

sweet - your work just got 1% quicker!

[Glen1980]

Shift and right click brings up the snap override menu, which is one I use alot.

 

Out of interest I have never used drawing limits outside of college, at the risk of ridicule what benefits are there to using limits? I thought paper space replaced it.

[CyberAngel]

Drawing limits is a holdover from the early days, when there was no paper space. You could set the limits to the corners of your "paper" and zoom to that view, which sometimes came in handy, especially when your extents got out of whack. You could even redefine the limits as your area of interest changed. Imagine not having dynamic zooming--you had to manually adjust your viewing area every time you wanted to work somewhere else, and you had to remember your last few views in case you needed Zoom Previous.

 

Limits still has its uses, I always Zoom All in paper space.

[Jack_O'neill]

There are so many ways to do the same thing in Autocad that its truly amazing to see some of the solutions people come up with. You can come up with a way that works for you and your specific needs, and its fast and efficient and you really like it....and the next guy comes along and tries it and that method drives him nuts. I love working with this stuff and seeing how other people do things. Sometimes I find something better than what I was doing, and sometimes I can share something better with others.

[Ryder76]

There are so many ways to do the same thing in Autocad that its truly amazing to see some of the solutions people come up with. You can come up with a way that works for you and your specific needs' date=' and its fast and efficient and you really like it....and the next guy comes along and tries it and that method drives him nuts. I love working with this stuff and seeing how other people do things. Sometimes I find something better than what I was doing, and sometimes I can share something better with others.[/quote']

 

Amen to that, Jack. I have been using ACAD for 20 years now. (just counted up the years and was !) I don't know everything by any means and really like this forum for sharing what I do know and receiving the knowledge of my peers. There have to be at least 50 ways to skin a cat with this software, and depending on one's style or need one way is more efficient than another. I have contracted for a number of years and depending on the job sometimes I will perform actions, etc. differently eventhough I'm still the same person - sometimes it just depends on the job needing to be done and not always personal preference. IMHO.

[eklektikus]

I think that the "double click of the scroll wheel" will quickly become a useful "command" because I was going to jump into this thread with another question. I keep losing Zoom

[Glen1980]

Try REGEN to regenerate the drawing then you can zoom out using the wheel. You'll have to do that every so often as you zoom. You're better off just zooming to extents then moving back in. REGENALL is useful when you are in layoutspace to regen linetypes.

 

Just thought RE is the shortcut for Regen and REA for Regenall

Edited February 25, 2011 by Glen1980
Added shortcuts

[eklektikus]

Thanks, Glen1980, and funny you should mention REgen because that was when I would often see the problem. Zoom

[Glen1980]

I suppose it is a memory saver for the program, only lodaing so much detail into it. I notice is zooming in quite often, curves look all blocky until I REgen,

[Jack_O'neill]

I suppose it is a memory saver for the program, only lodaing so much detail into it. I notice is zooming in quite often, curves look all blocky until I REgen,

 

You can pump up the "viewres" variable to smooth out curves and circles. Type "viewres" on the command line and follow the prompts. Can be set from 100 to 20,000, but I find that depending on the quality and power of your video card, 1000-2500 is usually sufficient. Really high settings can begin to degrade your computer's performance on large drawings. Facetres will do the same for 3D, and settings range from .1 to 10, though you will rarely need to set it higher than 5.

[Glen1980]

Cheers Jack, I'm going to have a play, see if I can't squeeze some performance out of this dinosaur computer of mine!

[ReMark]

Although VIEWRES still exists AutoDesk now recommends setting WHIPARC equal to 1 to smooth out curves.

[Jack_O'neill]

Although VIEWRES still exists AutoDesk now recommends setting WHIPARC equal to 1 to smooth out curves.

 

There's always someone smarter than yourself...I gotta get out of the cave more often. That was new to me Remark. Thanks!

[eklektikus]

Although VIEWRES still exists AutoDesk now recommends setting WHIPARC equal to 1 to smooth out curves.

 

Huh? I opened a drawing this morning, expereinced the occasionally recurring faceted arcs or circles, went the WHIPARC = 1 route, and experienced no change in the curverture of the faceted lines. REGEN popped it back though. Is WHIPARC a setting that needs to be altered in the drawing file (default is apparently 0), save and close the drawing and reopen, or what? I thought I had a real nugget from ReMark, but right now it looks more like a rock. Hehe.