Zooming to drawing extents

By Virupaksha Aithal

Simple and direct method to zoom the drawing to its extents is use the ActiveX API “ZoomExtents” as shown in below code.

VB.NET

        <CommandMethod("TestZoomExtent")> _

        Public Sub TestZoomExtent()

            'AcadApplication has a function to zoom extent

            Dim acadApp As Object = Application.AcadApplication

            acadApp.ZoomExtents()

        End Sub

C#

[CommandMethod("zoomExtentTest")]

public static void zoomExtentTest()

{

    //using InvokeMember to support .NET 3.5

    Object acadObject = Application.AcadApplication;

    acadObject.GetType().InvokeMember("ZoomExtents",

                BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, acadObject, null);

}