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Understand the Interface

 

 

 

 

Easy CAD Viewer is easy-to-use.

Your primary interface for controlling the operation of Easy CAD Viewer is the toolbar, which includes the most common operations.

Toolbar

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Open File

Open a DWG, DXF, or DWF drawing file, and display the drawing file in the viewer.

Save As

Save the current drawing file as a new file. The available file formats are DWG, DXF, DWF. You can specify the version of the output as early as AutoCAD R9, as recent as AutoCAD 2015 to eliminate your compatibility concerns.

Print

Print your CAD drawings to a printer or send your CAD drawings to a plotter.

Previous Drawing

When you are viewing a CAD drawing from a folder with multiple CAD drawings, you can click this button to browse the previous drawing in this folder.

Next Drawing

The display of the next drawing can be controlled by the this button when you have multiple CAD drawings in a folder.

Pan

Click the Pan button on the toolbar, and the mouse cursor changes to a hand. Position the hand on your CAD drawing, and then hold down the left mouse button and drag the drawing to the area of your interest.

Zoom Window

After pressing this option, you must navigate on the screen and select a rectangle. What is selected by the rectangle will be zoomed in.

Zoom In

Enlarge the drawing that you are working on for viewing purposes and get a close-up view of a part of the drawing.

Zoom Out

Shrink the drawing that you are working on and see the complete drawing in a small enough size for viewing purposes.

Zoom to Fit

Enlarge or shrink the drawing that you are working on for viewing purposes and fit it to the width and height of the viewing area in Easy CAD Viewer.

Rotate Right

Rotate the drawing clockwise by 90 degrees.

Rotate Left

Rotate the drawing anti-clockwise by 90 degrees.

Rotate Z

Click this button on the toolbar, and drag your mouse cursor to rotate around the Z-axis using a given angle of rotation input by your mouse move.

Rotate Y

Click this button on the toolbar, and drag your mouse cursor to rotate around the Y-axis using a given angle of rotation input by your mouse move.

Rotate X

Click this button on the toolbar, and drag your mouse cursor to rotate around the X-axis using a given angle of rotation input by your mouse move.

Full Screen

Display the drawing that you are working on in full-screen mode.