Zooming and Panning View Windows

As you work with your elements in your View windows, you may need to see other parts of the scene space not in the camera’s field of view. Although all the action is taking place within the confines of the active camera’s field of view, you can place other elements outside the camera to bring them in later when needed.

Changing the section of the viewable scene space doesn’t actually change anything in the scene itself; it only changes what you are currently seeing in the View window.

To pan to another section of the scene space, you have these options:

Select Tools > Grabber and use the Grabber tool to pan the window. You can also activate the Grabber tool from the Drawing Tools toolbar.
Click the View window to activate it and press [Spacebar]. Click and drag the scene space around to make other parts of it visible.
Use the scroll bars in the View window to scroll the scene space.

To zoom in, you have these options:

Click the View window to activate it and press the [X] key on your keyboard.
Select View > Zoom In.
Select Tools > Zoom and click the area you want to zoom-in by clicking the Zoom tool.

To zoom out, you have these options:

Click the View window to activate it and press the [Z] key.
Select View > Zoom Out.
Press [Command] and then click the View window with the Zoom tool.