You asked: How do you zoom in on a drawing in Solidworks?

How do I zoom in and fit in SOLIDWORKS?

Press F, click Zoom to Fit on the View toolbar, or click View > Modify > Zoom to Fit. Search ‘Zoom to Fit’ in the SOLIDWORKS Knowledge Base.

How do you enlarge a drawing in SOLIDWORKS?

You can change the scale of a drawing sheet by selecting a scale from a predefined list or specifying a custom scale. To change the scale of an existing drawing sheet: In the status bar, click Sheet Scale and click a scale. If there are annotations in the drawing sheet, specify options in the dialog box and click OK.

Where is zoom to selection in SOLIDWORKS?

To zoom to selection: Select an entity, or hold Ctrl and select multiple entities. You can select entities in either the graphics area or the FeatureManager design tree. Click Zoom to Selection on the View toolbar, or click View > Modify > Zoom to Selection.

How do you scale a view in SOLIDWORKS drawing?

Setting Custom Scales for Drawing Views

1. In a drawing, select an existing view or insert a new view.
2. In the PropertyManager, under Scale, select Use custom scale.
3. In the box, enter a scale in the format x:x or x/x . You can also click and select a predefined scale from the list.

How do you zoom in and fit in Autocad?

If you double–click with the mouse wheel, you will activate the Zoom Extents command. This will zoom out or in to fit all of the objects in your drawing to the edges of the screen so you can see the entire drawing.

How do you view orientation in Solidworks?

To display the Orientation dialog box, do one of the following:

1. Click View Orientation (View toolbar).
2. Click View > Modify > Orientation.
3. Press the Space Bar.
4. Right-click in a drawing sheet and select Zoom/Pan/Rotate > View Orientation.

How do I change the size of a Solidworks file?

In a part document, click Scale (Features toolbar) or Insert > Features > Scale . Set options in the PropertyManager. The geometry of the model increases or decreases in size according to the scaling factors and other options you set.

How do you change the scale of a drawing?

Task 1: Rescale a drawing, using the same unit

Start the scaling command with SC (or SCALE). Make a selection for the objects that need to be included in the scaling operation. Click in the drawing for the first point of the scaling base (base point). Type R to activate Reference scaling.