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Do you spend a lot of time panning
around a drawing?
Sometimes it feels like you're rowing a boat doesn't it?
Well, to lesson the amount of strokes it takes to get that special view just
right, let's explore all the Pan options that are
available in AutoCAD.
If you go to the VIEW>PAN> listing from your AutoCAD
pull-down menu, you'll see that the PAN command has six options.
The first option listed, REALTIME, is the same as
what occurs when you use the
PAN tool icon or if you just enter PAN at
the command line. This
option let's you dynamically and without any
constraints, pan around
your drawing as needed. The other
options available are the POINT, LEFT, RIGHT, UP and DOWN listings.
These have restrictions which are self
evident by their titles.
The LEFT, RIGHT, UP and DOWN options are
noteworthy because they shift the display a pre-set distance
orthographically only.
The hidden trick is that if you hold down the
SHIFT key, the current PAN command will only move the view in an
orthographic direction, even in REALTIME mode! It's
the same as choosing the LEFT, RIGHT, UP and DOWN options
without having to dig through the menu pull-downs. For those of you 3D
users who choose to leave SHADEMODE on, the shift key does nothing when
using the PAN command. This trick will always work in Paperspace,
regardless of the SHADEMODE setting.
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