Illustrator drawing area?

[Yanmar_Design]

Im trying to expand the drawing area in Illustrator CS5, an I cant how can I do this?

[Albeitadrift]

Oh fair play, but how? a quick search reveals nothing on this and adobe in app help suggests nothinig about drawnig area either.

[Doug A Roberts]

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/large-sized-artwork.html

[Albeitadrift]

Ah got you, so still waiting. 
I don't need a large artboard. I need the ability to have large items that are within clippinig masks to be able to hang off artboards into the 'drawing area'. We use it for artboarding, so sometmies, 50 Artboards + and this makes the drawing area very tight, meaning items can't be simiply masked and hanging off artboards. 

I understand there are work arounds, to have my storyboards across several docs or manually slice up items that would be in clipping masks, so they arent needing to spill over. (Or using Affinity, which is listening to Adobe users complaints more than Adobe.) But this would still leave me with a limited artboard count. 
There is seemingly no logic to having a limited Drawinig area behind artboards and is an issue for users. It should really have been looked into 'properly' at this stage - for the cost. 

[Doug A Roberts]

Perhaps you could make a separate post explaining/showing exactly what you mean. I'm not sure from your description how it doesn't help to have a larger drawing area available.

[Albeitadrift]

Ah I see, this may be a confusion of terms. Sorry for confusion. 
Yeah I will do that, some screenshots may illustrate this better.