Lost In Space

[james_t_mulligan]

Hey all - when I go into Model Space in my file, the "D" size drawing appears to be just a  dot until I zoom in. How do I go about locating whatever is "lost in M-Space"?

Thanks

[Patchy]

Hold the CTRL key and the A key, it will highlight all things in space.

[pendean]

Zoom Extents: Then use your mouse wheel button to zoom out just a little bit more.

Now use the keyboard combination CTRL+A to select everything on screen for you.

Look for blue does that appear: you can use ZOOM command's OBJECT sub-option to zoom into one or more of those blue dots to see if it is the content you seek.

Use VIEW command to set a named view so you can get back to it as you ERASE everything else you don't want.

HTH

[paullimapa]

Since there maybe objects located in the far corners of the screen after you do a zoom extents, make sure you turn on all layers so you can see them. Perhaps share your dwg for us to take a look?

[CGBenner]

@james_t_mulligan @paullimapa @pendean @Patchy 

Back in ancient times before the wheel was invented (probably modeled in Acad by Dean....), I had this happen a lot with drawings that were imported from "another cad system" which will remain nameless (MS)... it took us weeks to figure out what was going on because using all of the tricks mentioned here... NOTHING was found in the outer regions of space.  On a whim, it turned on QTEXT, and a veritable star field of dots appeared all around the drawing.  Selecting one and using LIST I determined that they were text entities, with no actual text in them.  Artifacts of the translation to DXF, I assumed.  Thousands of them.  Deleting all of them, and turning QTEXT back to 0, the drawing zoomed perfectly to extents. 

May not help here, but I just love to tell that story....  have a good day all!