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Working with the mouse and mouse settings

Working with the mouse and mouse settings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Working with the mouse and mouse settings

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our 00- Ground Flour Plan .dwg, and again, we're in the Model tab zoomed to the extent of the floor plan in the drawing. Now we're going to take a look now at how we navigate using our mouse and our mouse settings. Now, these are really important settings in AutoCAD, our mouse settings, especially. Now, I've obviously shown you already how to zoom and pan using the mouse. So you move the crosshair around, you pick a point in the drawing and you don't click on it. You just position the crosshair, roll up on the wheel of the mouse and you zoom in, roll back on the wheel of the mouse, and you zoom out. Hold down the wheel of the mouse like so, and move the mouse and you can see you pan. Release the wheel, and then you come out of that pan mode. Again, like I mentioned, though, you can right click and use pan and zoom there, and if I hit escape to lose the shortcut menu, you can also zoom and pan here using the navigation bar. Now those mouse…

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