Beginning AutoCAD 2017. Cheryl R. Shrock

the left hand vertical line and the cursor will automatically snap to the lower endpoint of the left line.

       Running Object snap is very handy but remember do not select more than 3 or 4 at a time. The selections will fight each other and you may end up snapping to a location that you did not want.

       If you wish to snap to a location that is not preset merely select the Object Snap Menu, as shown on page 4-2, and select the one you want. Running Object Snap and Object snap work together very well but it may take a little practice.

ZOOM

      The ZOOM command is used to move closer to or farther away from an object. This is called Zooming In and Out.

      The Zoom commands are located on the Navigate panel of the View tab and are off by default. Select the View tab then right-click on any panel and select Show Panels, activate the Navigate panel. (To show panels refer to page 1-11)

      1. Select the Zoom command by using the following:

       Ribbon = View tab / Navigate panel

      2. Select the down arrow to display all of the selections.