From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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- [Instructor] For this tip, I'm going to teach you about Zoom to Fit. Now, Zoom to Fit is been in SolidWorks pretty much from the very beginning but you might not know how to use it to its full extent. Now right up here at the top of the screen, the heads up display, you see here we have Zoom to Fit. So if you have a model and it's somewhere out here, hit that button it's going to bring it right into where we're seeing it full screen. Now same thing if I have it out here I can hit F on the keyboard again and that brings it right to where I'm viewing the entire screen with that model, it's zooming in to fit the screen. Now there's another secret way to do that, too. You have it somewhere else on your screen and maybe you lost it, if you double-click the middle mouse button, so click click on middle mouse button. It'll do exactly the same thing. So you're going to, again, Zoom to Fit by either double-clicking the middle…

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