What You See is What You Get  1 Mar, 1998 By: Lynn Allen  Any
CAD user can tell you that controlling the display of your
drawing is incredibly important to the design process. AutoCAD
provides many different means of viewing your drawing, some more
efficient than others. This month, we'll review the most
commonly used display commands and take a tour through the new
additions to AutoCAD R14.  For those of you who survived the
R13c releases (which one comedic user penned "c what we fixed
now"), you found c4 filled with some refreshing surprises. One
such surprise was the real-time PAN and ZOOM commands. We have
the magnificent HEIDI driver to thank for this new capability.
Though the Rtpan and Rtzoom toolbars were tedious to load into
our drawing, (and once loaded, difficult to keep), they proved
to be awesome tools for moving around in a drawing. R14 moved
them to the standard toolbar (prime real estate) and even made
them the default option in the ZOOM command (for you command-
line buffs). Throw in the new r