From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management
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Drawing limits - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Space Management
Drawing limits
- [Voiceover] We're staying in the 00_GND_FM_SETTINGS.dwg file, and just like in the previous video where we set up our drawing units, we now need to look at setting up our drawing limits. Now the reason we set up drawing limits, is because the model tab, where we're working most of the time is actually infinite. And what you've got is a command called zoom all that allows you to zoom to your limits, your limits with coordinates set up in the model space. So, how do you set up your limits? It's exactly the same process or work flow as you would with your units. You just type the word LIMITS, like so, and press enter. Now you'll notice, read the command line this time, and you can see that the default lower left corner value is (0,0). That's where x and y intersect, the origin, so to speak. Press enter to accept that, that's fine for what we want to do with our FM drawing. Then, the upper right corner is very, very small. It's only 420mm by 297mm, not very big. So we need to make that…
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