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progeCAD Professional manual The low-cost alternative to AutoCAD
- Introduction
- Getting started
- Working with drawings
- Creating a new drawing
- Opening a drawing
- Setting up a drawing
- Setting the current layer
- Layer Properties Manager
- Creating and naming layers
- Locking and unlocking layers
- Setting the current entity color
- Setting the current linetype
- Setting the linetype scale
- Setting the current lineweight
- Setting the current print style
- Setting drawing units
- Understanding scale factors
- Setting the text height
- Setting the drawing limits
- Working with colors
- Using the grid, snap alignment and cursor restriction
- Using entity snaps
- Setting entity snaps
- Nearest Snap tool
- Endpoint Snap tool
- Midpoint Snap tool
- Center Snap tool
- Perpendicular Snap tool
- Tangent Snap tool
- Quadrant Snap tool
- Insertion Point Snap tool
- Point Snap tool
- Mid between two point Snap tool
- Intersection Snap tool
- Apparent Intersection Snap tool
- Quick Snap command
- Clear Entity Snaps tool
- Using fly-over snapping
- Etrack Snap tracking
- Polar Snap tracking
- Saving your drawing
- Creating simple entities
- Creating complex entities
- Viewing your drawing
- Working with coordinates
- Working with the progeCAD Explorer
- Using the progeCAD Explorer
- Organizing information on layers
- Working with linetypes
- Working with text fonts and styles
- Working with coordinate systems
- Using named views
- Working with blocks and external references
- Working with dimension styles
- Getting drawing information
- Modifying entities
- Working with text
- Dimensioning your drawing
- Working with blocks
- Working with attributes
- Working with external references
- iCADLib
- Printing drawings
- Getting started printing
- Defining layouts for printing
- Customizing print options
- Printing or plotting your drawing
- Print a PDF or JPG file
- Print a Viewport with hidden lines or shaded mode
- Drawing in three dimensions
- Render
- O2C Converter
- Google Earth
- Working with other programs
- Saving and viewing snapshots
- Using data from other programs in progeCAD drawings
- Using progeCAD data in other programs
- Using progeCAD with the Internet
- Other programs
- Image
- Customizing progeCAD
- Setting and changing options
- Customizing menus
- Customizing toolbars
- Customizing the keyboard
- Creating aliases
- Customizing entities
- Creating and replaying scripts
- Programming progeCAD
- Using a digitizer tablet
- Appendix
- Understanding AutoCAD compatibility
- Using enhanced AutoCAD commands in progeCAD
- Using additional selection sets
- Using additional progeCAD commands
- Recognizing subtle command differences
- Identifying what does not display
- Supporting AutoCAD customization
- Understanding menu compatibility
- Importing and exporting customization files
- Programming progeCAD
- progeCAD-AutoCAD list of terms
- Understanding AutoCAD compatibility
- Glossary
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Viewing your drawing - Changing the magnification of your drawing
Zooming methods
To zoom, you can use any of the following methods:
To define the portion of the drawing to zoom, create a window.
To zoom in real time, press Ctrl + Shift and use the left mouse button, or use the Real-Time Zoom tool (
) on the Standard or 3D Orbit toolbar. If you have a mouse with a wheel, use the wheel button to zoom in and out.
To zoom in to an area using a window
- Do one of the following:
- Choose View > Zoom > Window.
- On the Zoom or Standard toolbar, click the Zoom Window tool (
).- Type zoom and then press Enter.
- Select one corner of the window around the area you want to magnify.
- Specify the opposite corner of the window around the area you want to magnify.
To specify a rectangular window around the area you want to magnify, select first one corner ( A ), and then select the opposite corner ( B ). |
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To zoom in real time
- Do one of the following:
- Choose View > Zoom > Real-Time Zoom.
- On the Standard or 3D orbit toolbar, click the Zoom Real-Time tool (
).- Type rtzoom and then press Enter.
- Simultaneously press and hold Ctrl + Shift.
- Click and hold the left mouse button.
- To zoom in, move the cursor up the screen; to zoom out, move the cursor down the screen.
- To stop zooming, release the mouse button.
To zoom using a mouse with a wheel
Rotate the wheel away from you to zoom in or toward you to zoom out.
Each rotation of the wheel away from you zooms out .8 times; each rotation toward you zooms in 1.25 times.