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Zoom Extents problem

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adiaz
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Zoom Extents problem

We have a drawing that when you zoom extents it disappears from the screen or at least it is to small that you can not see it on the screen. What variable controls this?
VSMIN and VSMAX are read only and in this drawing are big. Any help would be appreciate.

Alex
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Anonymous
in reply to: adiaz

Make sure that there isn't anything out from your
drawing.  i.e. a block that got put in at a strange coordinate, and it's
5,000 feet from your floor plan.  When you zoom extents, zoom just a little
larger, make sure all layers are on and thawed, erase everything around the
outside edge of you drawing display.  Hope that makes sense.

 

Jamie Myers


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We
have a drawing that when you zoom extents it disappears from the screen or at
least it is to small that you can not see it on the screen. What variable
controls this?
VSMIN and VSMAX are read only and in this drawing are big.
Any help would be appreciate.

Alex

Message 3 of 9
Anonymous
in reply to: adiaz

sounds like you have entities at large distances from each other in relation
to the size of the entities themselves.
it's not a variable as far as I know that controls zoom extents.
zoom extents is supposed to zoom to the extents of drawn objects.
so if this is what's going on it's doing what it's supposed to, you just
can't see the things cause you're zoomed out so far.
you can try selecting with a crossing window everything in the screen or
select 'all' and see where the grips show up to see where your entities
actually are located, then zoom in closer to see them.
hth
Message 4 of 9
adiaz
in reply to: adiaz

This happened after AutoCAD crashed. After I recovered the drawing the drawing was rotated 90 degrees on Z-axe on Model Space, I made all the layers ON and thawed. Just a small green point appears on the screen and no matter how many zoom windows I do, it does no zoom in. I fixed the rotation but I still having problem with the zoom extents. I was trying to erase any object from my border of my screen but I am not selecting any visible object. Any other suggestion?
TIA
Message 5 of 9
Anonymous
in reply to: adiaz

Use a method of selection, either in AutoCAD or, via lisp, to determine the object's type and/or, any point, that can be extracted and will identify its location...
Message 6 of 9
Anonymous
in reply to: adiaz

What happen if you use the command PLAN

Are you able to select objects? if you can then open a new drawing and
insert of paste the selection in and now try a zoom extents.
Message 7 of 9
Anonymous
in reply to: adiaz

> insert of paste

insert or paste...
Message 8 of 9
Anonymous
in reply to: adiaz

Sounds like you have an angular or radias dimension and that is the defpoint

"Luis Esquivel" wrote in message
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Message 9 of 9
Anonymous
in reply to: adiaz

maybe an unresolved xref at 0,0 ?
or text as spaces? to test turn qtext on and regen.
cheers
Steve

"adiaz" wrote in message
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> This happened after AutoCAD crashed. After I recovered the drawing the
drawing was rotated 90 degrees on Z-axe on Model Space, I made all the
layers ON and thawed. Just a small green point appears on the screen and no
matter how many zoom windows I do, it does no zoom in. I fixed the rotation
but I still having problem with the zoom extents. I was trying to erase any
object from my border of my screen but I am not selecting any visible
object. Any other suggestion?
> TIA
>

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