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Using pan

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Using pan

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- [Voiceover] In the last video, we looked at the Zoom tools that are available on the right-hand mouse button shortcut menu. You can also pan in your AutoCAD drawing in the same way, using the shortcut menu. So we're staying in the 03_NavigatingDrawings.dwg file. And as you can see, it hasn't changed at all at the moment. We're just going to pan. Now one of the tricks that you can use with this on the shortcut menu is the ability to zoom and pan at the same time. And it's a really nice, quick navigational tool. So what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to right-click on the shortcut menu, like so. That brings up the default shortcut menu, and you'll notice we've also got Pan as well as Zoom there. So if I click on Pan, what I get now is a default hand symbol. Can you see that floating around on the screen there? I hold down the left-hand mouse button and drag the mouse, and I pan left and right, up and down, any direction like so. So if I pan right across like that, and bring the…

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