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david_mach581
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I am working with a part 4.013mm X 4.700mm that I would like it to be larger on the screen. How can I set it to be larger on the screen, but retain my specified dimensions?
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Jake_Rosenfeld
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646 
@david_mach581
If you change the size of the planes by dragging their corners (as shown above) or just hide the planes, the part will stay larger when you use the auto-rotation funtions on the view cube. Those functions just zoom to fit everything in the view, so if you make the planes smaller, it can zoom in closer.Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team6
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It looks to me that those Part Studios have different units set. You can check the units here:
You can change the size of each of the default planes by clicking on one of them, and then dragging their corners:
every time I change the view, I have to enlarge it over again. Since most of my parts are small, is there a way once I set the part size, I can view it say
6-8 X and lock it so that it remains large?
If you change the size of the planes by dragging their corners (as shown above) or just hide the planes, the part will stay larger when you use the auto-rotation funtions on the view cube. Those functions just zoom to fit everything in the view, so if you make the planes smaller, it can zoom in closer.
every time I change the view, I have to enlarge it over again. Since most of my parts are small, is there a way once I set the part size, I view it say
6-8 X and lock it so that when I change views it remains at 6-8 X?
also - I like to hide planes ( 'p' key) and origin (eyeball). Then zoom all will work to show only visible geometry.
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