VIEWING

Zoom
Display Plot Styles
Shared Views

1. Zoom

Follow the prompts displayed after the ZOOM command to view your drawing exactly how you wish. “ZOOM > All” adjusts the magnification of the drawing area to show all visible objects or the drawing limits set with the LIMITS command. “ZOOM > Extents” displays the maximum extent of all objects.

“ZOOM > Dynamic” pans and zooms using a rectangular view box. The view box represents your view, which you can shrink or enlarge and move around the drawing. Positioning and sizing the view box pans or zooms to fill the viewport with the view inside the view box. (This is not available in perspective projection.)

BONUS #1: If you have a mouse with a wheel, double-click the mouse wheel to activate Zoom Extents.

BONUS #2: Use the command VTENABLE to turn off smooth view transitions which occur during panning and zooming. Setting it to 0 (zero) turns it off for pan/zoom, rotation, and scripts. 

2. Display Plot Styles

View your drawing in AutoCAD as it’s going to look when it’s printed by selecting “Display Plot Styles” in the Page Setup dialog box.

AutoCAD displays drawings in color and then translates the drawing data to a different printed format. Typically, we need to do a plot preview to see what the layout is going to look like when plotted, but you can change this via Display Plot Styles. Set your main layout in this way or create a separate layout to act as a “live” preview so that you can still work in your traditional colored layout view.

3. Shared Views 

Share designs easily within or outside your company using the Shared Views feature – without releasing your original DWG files. Instead of a PDF, share a link that can be viewed and commented on in any browser. 

Avoid the cumbersome commonly-used workflow of publishing and emailing designs via DWF or PDF files. Instead, a viewable file is created in AutoCAD and circulated via a shareable link that can be viewed and commented on in the browser of any device with internet access. Comments that collaborators make on the shared link appear right back in your AutoCAD desktop product.

The Shared Views feature can be accessed from AutoCAD’s Application menu, under Publish.

NOTE: Shared Views automatically expire after 30 days, but you can extend or terminate the link at any time.