# Zoom a \`CairoMakie\` mesh plot

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/zoom-a-cairomakie-mesh-plot/71739>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [November 18, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/zoom-a-cairomakie-mesh-plot/71739 "2021-11-18T19:20:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![bvrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@bvrb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bvrb)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/zoom-a-cairomakie-mesh-plot/71739/2 "2021-11-18T19:57:37Z")

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For zooming, it should be enough to call `zoom!(scene, zoom_step)` for your figure’s scene where it zooms in for values of `zoom_step` smaller than 1, and zooms out if greater than 1.

If you want to save the zoomed version of the plot to a file, you have to add `scene.center = false` before calling the `save` command, see: [Saving Makie plot as is on the screen? - #2 by sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/saving-makie-plot-as-is-on-the-screen/24276/2)

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