Trim the margins

Looks at the sheet without the blank paper around it, so the drawing fills the screen. Nothing is written to the file.

Why you would use it

A scan of an A3 detail on A1 paper is mostly paper. On a laptop or a tablet that margin is most of the screen, and the drawing is the part you can’t read.

For example

What to do

1. View › Trim the margins, for the sheet you’re on.
2. Or Trim the margins on every page, for a whole set.
3. Show this sheet whole puts the margins back on this page. Show every sheet whole again restores the set.

Going further

A crop is a narrower window onto the same page, not a change to it: page space is untouched, so no measurement moves, no quantity changes and nothing is written to the drawing. On a sheet with vector geometry the content is found exactly from the drawing itself; on a scan it’s read off the ink, ignoring speckle and the scanner’s own edge. A sheet whose drawing already reaches the paper is left alone and says so.