ZOOM command

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

Icon:

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 0.5.

Out: Zooms out by 50%. It is equivalent to Zoom 2.

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.