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
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.
CADnoob
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.]
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