Zooming in or out on a drawing allows you to change magnification. This is useful when you want to focus your view on specific parts of the drawing. Panning allows you to move in any direction from a specific point in the drawing sheet to see other areas of the drawing. 

In this lesson, you will use the tools on the Main toolbar to specify an area on which to zoom in and then pan to another part of the drawing. Finally, you will save the drawing with a new filename.

Click the Show Me Show Me  button on the SmartSketch Learning Center toolbar to view a demonstration of the tasks in this lesson.

  1. On the Main toolbar, click the Zoom Area Zoom Area Button button.
  2. Place the cursor just above the upper-left corner of the parking lot and drag down just below the third green slanted line.

Notice that a dashed rectangular box outlines the area you've specified. This is called a fence.

  1. On the Main menu, click the Pan Pan Button button.
  2. When the Hand icon appears, click in the middle of the drawing sheet and drag the icon up, down, left, and right. 

Notice that the drawing sheet moves in the direction in which you drag. 

  1. Open the File menu, and select Save As.
  2. In the Save As dialog box, type parking2.ingr in the Filename textbox.
  3. Click Save to save the drawing file.