Limited viewing area

[Anonymous]

 Good morning everyone!  I am new to Autocad and I just started a job using it.  I know that the workspace is endless so whatever I created I should be able to zoom in and out to view whatever I create.  Whenever I open up a new file to create, I noticed that even just a square of 100' x 75' it "too" big.  I keep getting messages that I have reached my outermost left or right and it has zoomed out as far as possible.  Is there at setting that I can change to get back the unlimited viewing?  HELP!!

NICOLE

[TheCADnoob]

You can type REGEN and see if it allows you to navigate further

you can also look into LIMITS command https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/Au...

Or possibly there is an issue with your drawing units. 

[Kent1Cooper]

Welcome to these Forums!

You've run up against the extent of the "virtual screen" area.  See the Glossary.  As @TheCADnoob said, REGEN will generate a new virtual screen area well beyond the current displayed area, so you can Zoom farther out or Pan farther over.

Set up a drawing with Limits that are typical for your use, rather than AutoCAD's default [I think it's all of 12 drawing units wide by 9 units high], Zoom All in that drawing, Save that as a template [.dwt] file, and make that your default drawing template for New drawings, and you should very rarely have this issue arise.  [Also include in that template drawing any Layers and Text & Dimension Styles and so on that you will typically want to be present in new drawings.]