Subject: Viewing your drawing

CADdirect provides many ways to display and view your drawing. You can also change various display settings to speed up the display or printing of a drawing. This section explains how to:

   Navigate within a drawing by scrolling, panning, and rotating the view.

   Change the magnification of a drawing by zooming in and out.

   View a drawing with annotation scales.

   Work with multiple windows or views of a drawing.

   Control the display of elements to optimize performance when working with large or complex drawings.

When working with three-dimensional drawings, see Viewing entities in three dimen­sions. To hide, shade, or render a drawing, see Hiding, shading, and rendering.

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Redrawing and regenerating a drawing

Moving around within a drawing

Changing the magnification of your drawing

Changing the view of annotative entities

Displaying multiple windows

Controlling visual elements

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