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AutoCAD Application

Drawing Limits

What is the importance of setting drawing
Limits in AutoCAD ?

AutoCAD is a drafting software and requires dimensions to be

specified on the drawing which has its overall size depending
on how big or small the drawing is.

AutoCAD has unlimited space in which one can draw the
drawing but in real life, one has to either print it or get it into

the physical world so, the one has to prefix the size of the

drawing.
We can use Limits to set the boundary of your drawing, and

ZOOM-All to zoom the whole drawing, so the graphics don’t
look too big or small or even beyond the boundary in the

default status.

What is the LIMITS command?

The LIMIT command in the AutoCAD helps you to set the working
space or canvas size into which the complete drawing can be

made. When you write LIMITS in the command bar, you will be

prompt for Lower Left Corner coordinate location. Normally you
can set it to (0,0) while the drawing's Upper Right Corner

coordinate requires entering coordinate of the point on the upper
right corner of the drawing area.

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