solidworks - drawings, zoom to fit not working 1

[dickcor]

I'm using solidworks 2004 on windows xp pro with 2 gig.

My problem is when I'm in a drawing, after zooming in to do details, the "zoom to fit" button will place a 1/2 sized drawing in the lower right side of the window even though it started out as a full sized drawing sheet. I zoom in ok but when I try the zoom to fit button my sheet goes to 1/2 size in the lower corner. the first 5-6 sheets had no problems, and the zoom to fit worked on them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Check around the outer edges of the display (Left, Top & Right) to see if there is any geometry out there. It could be a point, or tiny circle or ?. Easiest way is to zoom out further & window select everything on the screen. Any errant geometry should then show up.

& all the best.

 

[dudley7777]

I have also ran into this problem, and in my case one of the drawing views is actually larger than the sheet size. Example is when you break a view, sometimes it doesn't work right. I think if you delete this view and re-do it, it will work.

 

[debodine]

Creating a section view where part of the section view (that I did not need to display) extended beyond the drawing borders has caused this problem for me in the past.

 

[ctopher]

...or check to see if any views are hidden. Select views in manager and check for highlights in dwg.

Chris
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