ZOOM command

Visually changes the size of the drawing within the current viewport.

BricsCAD Shape; BricsCAD Lite; BricsCAD Pro; BricsCAD Mechanical; BricsCAD BIM

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Alias: Z

Description

You can change the magnification of your drawing at any time by zooming.

Options within the command

In
Zooms in by 50%. It is equivalent to Zoom 2.
Out
Zooms out by 50%. It is equivalent to Zoom 0.5.
All
Displays the entire drawing.
Center
Zooms in or out about a specified center point.
Dynamic
Pans and zooms using a rectangular box which represents the viewport. This option first executes a zoom extents or zoom limits to show the original size of the viewport as a dashed rectangle.
Adjust the size of the view box dynamically, then pan it to the part of the drawing you want to view.
Extents
Displays the drawing to the extents of entities.
Note: Limits and frozen entities are ignored.
Left
Zooms in or out with the lower left corner specified by a point.
Previous
Displays the previous view, whether set by the Zoom, Pan, or View commands.
Right
Zooms in or out with the upper right corner specified by a point.
Scale
Specifies the absolute zoom scale factor.
Note: Less than 1 makes the drawing appear smaller. More than 1 makes the drawing appear larger.
nx
Specifies the zoom factor relative to the current zoom. For example, 2x makes the current view twice as large.
Nxp
Specifies the zoom factor in paper space relative to model space. For example, 2xp makes the model space view twice as large as the surrounding paper space.
Window
Zooms in to a rectangular area.
Object
Zooms in on a single entity or a selection set.