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AutoCAD System Variables

This document provides a summary of AutoCAD system variables including their default values, related commands, and descriptions. It covers over 50 common system variables such as ANGDIR, ATTMODE, AUTOSNAP, and CELWEIGHT and explains how they control aspects of the AutoCAD interface and drafting commands.

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Appendix C

AutoCAD System Variables

This section covers:
1. AutoCAD System Variables
a. Variable Names
b. Default Values
c. Commands related to the variable
d. Description and settings

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AutoCAD System Variables

System Variables R12 R2005

Appendix C - 1

What do you want to store or retrieve today?

AutoCAD Systems Variables is where AutoCAD does most of its storing of temporary and some
permanent values. These values are related to commands and to control how the user interacts with the
AutoCAD Environment. Some of these values are drawing parameters for commands like Offset
distance, Circle radius and the Units in which are used to input values when drafting.

Related Commands
Setvar - Calls the System Variable command. Through the use of this command you can set a System
Variables value or you can get a listing of all the current settings of all the System Variables.
Command: Setvar
Variable name or ?: ?
Variable(s) to list <*>: * or

AutoLISP Functions
(setvar variable value) - Sets the value of a System Variable
(getvar variable) - Gets the value of a System Variable
Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

_LINFO
(Undocumented)
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

Environment

Hardware lock serial number. Getvar must be

used in order to get the value of this system
variable.

_PKSER
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

339-XXXXXXXX

Environment

Returns the serial number assigned to

AutoCAD.

_SERVER
(Undocumented)
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

Environment

Returns the status of the network license server

of AutoCAD.

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 2

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

*_TOOLPALETTEPATH
(Stored: Registry)
R2004 2005

C:\\Documents and
Settings\\

OPTIONS

Contains the pathing for the Tool Palettes. So

it allows you to change different Tool Palettes
based on different ones being stored in
different directories. A semi-colon (;)
separates each path.

_VERNUM
(Undocumented)
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R13 2005

V.0.73

Environment

Returns a build number for AutoCAD. It

allows you to tell what service pack is installed
for AutoCAD.
R13_c4a - R.1.72c
R14.0 - S.0.79
R14.01 - P.0.31
R2000 - T.1.07
R2000i - U.0.90
R2002 - K.0.30 (SP1 K.0.44)
R2004 - V.0.73 (SP1a V.1.22)
R2005 - "N.30.101" (SP1 N.84.0)

ACADLSPASDOC
(Stored: Registry)
R2000 2005

PREFERENCES
OPTIONS

Controls how AutoCAD will load the Acad.lsp

file.
0 - Loads into every drawing opened
1 - Loads into the first drawing opened only.

ACADPREFIX
(Read-only)
(Stored: Registry)
R12 2005

C:\Program \

PREFERENCES
OPTIONS

List of support paths used by AutoCAD. These

paths may vary from the actual working paths
for AutoCAD.

ACADVER
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

16.1

Environment

Version number of AutoCAD

14.0 - R14
14.01 - R14
15.0 - R2000
15.05 - R2000i
15.06 - R2002
16.0 - R2004
16.1 - R2005

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 3

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

ACIS15
(Stored: Not Saved)
R13

Environment

Format in which AutoCAD processes all solid

objects.
0 - ACIS data is saved in ACIS 1.6 format and
can only be read by c4 or later versions.
1 - ACIS data is saved in both ACIS 1.5 and
ACIS 1.6 format in two different places.

ACISOUTVER
(Stored: Not Saved)
R14 2005

ACSIOUT
EXPORT

ACIS version of SAT files created using the

ACISOUT command. Valid values are 15
18, 20, 21, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70.

ADCSTATE
(Undocumented)
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2000i 2005

ADCENTER
ADCCLOSE

Holds the display state of the AutoCAD Design

Center.
0 - Not displayed in the environment
1 - Currently displayed in the environment

AFLAGS
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

DDATTDEF
ATTDEF

Default values for attribute creation modes.

(sum of the following)
0 - No mode present
1 - Invisible
2 - Constant
4 - Verify
8 - Preset

ANGBASE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.0000

DDUNITS
UNITS

Direction of Angle 0 (relative to the current

UCS)

ANGDIR
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDUNITS
UNITS

Angle of rotation
0 - Counterclockwise
1 - Clockwise

APBOX
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

DDOSNAP
OSNAP

AutoSnap aperture box display

0 - Off
1 - On

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 4

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

APERTURE
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

DDOSNAP
OSNAP

Aperture size for object snap (pixels)

1 - Minimum
50 - Maximum

AREA
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

0.0000

AREA
DBLIST
LIST

Last calculated area by Area, List or Dblist

ASSISTSTATE
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2005

ASSIST
ASSISTCLOSE

Indicates the display status of the AutoCAD

Info Palette.
0 - Info Palette is not active
1 - Info Palette is active

ATTDIA
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

DDATTE

Attribute interface for entry:

0 - Command line prompts
1 - Dialog Box

ATTMODE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

ATTDISP

Display of Attributes on the screen.

0 - Off, All attributes are turned off regardless
of flags set
1 - Normal, All attributes use the flags they
were originally defined with
2 - On, All attributes are turned on regardless
of flags set

ATTREQ
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

INSERT

Determines if Attribute defaults are used when

inserting a symbol.
0 - Default Values
1 - Prompt for values

AUDITCTL
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

AUDIT

Determines if a Log file is generated with each

Audit performed. File has the extension ADT.
0 - No Audit log is written
1 - Audit log is written

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 5

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

AUNITS
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDUNITS
UNITS

Angular unit mode.

0 - Decimal Degrees
1 - Degrees/Minutes/Seconds
2 - Grads
3 - Radians
4 - Surveyors Units

AUPREC
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDUNITS
UNITS

Number of decimal places displayed in angles

AUTOSNAP
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

DDOSNAP
OSNAP

Controls display preferences of AutoSnap:

0 - Off
1 - Turns on the AutoSnap marker
2 - Turns on the AutoSnap tooltips
4 - Turns on the AutoSnap magnet
Added to R2000 and up
8 - Turns on Polar Tracking
16 - Turns on Object Snap tracking
32 - Turns on tooltips for Polar and Object
Snap Tracking

AUXSTAT
(Undocumented)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

Environment

AUX device status.

Valid range of values is 32768 to 32767.

AXISMODE
(Undocumented)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 14

Environment

Legacy storage holder for the AXIS command

located in AutoCAD prior to R12. 0 and 1 are
the only valid values.

AXISUNIT
(Undocumented)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

0.0000,0.0000

Environment

Legacy storage holder for the AXIS command

located in AutoCAD prior to R12.

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 6

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

BACKGROUNDPLOT
(Stored: In Registry)
R2005

PLOT
PUBLISH

Allows Plotting and Publishing of drawings to

happen as a background process allowing you
to continue to work without waiting for your
plots. Commands Plot, Plot, -Publish and
Publish are performed in the foreground when
in scripts.
0 - Use foreground plotting with Plot and
Publish which is the legacy behavior of
AutoCAD 2004 and prior.
1 - Use background plotting with the Plot
command and not Publish.
2 - Use background plotting with the Publish
command and not Plot.
3 - Use background plotting for both Plot and
Publish commands.

BACKZ
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

0.0000

DVIEW

Offset for Back clipping plane

BINDTYPE
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2000 2005

XREF
REFEDIT

Controls how Xref names are handled in a

drawing when the commands XREF or
REFEDIT are used.
0 - Traditional ("xref|walls" = xref$0$walls")
1 - Insert-type ("xref|walls" = "walls")

BLIPMODE
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 - 2005

DDRMODES
BLIPMODE

Display of blip marks:

0 - Off
1 - On

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 7

CDATE
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

19990215.15560660

TIME

Current date and time

CECOLOR
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 - 2005

BYLAYER

DDEMODES
COLOR
STATUS

Current object color. Prior to R2004 the value

was returned from 1 255, BYLAYER,
or BYBLOCK in value. R2004 reports the
value back as 1 255, BYLAYER,
BYBLOCK, plus RGB:000,000,000 when
a True color is set.

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 8

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

CELTSCALE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

1.0000

DDLTYPE
DDEMODES
DDLMODES (R14)
LINETYPE
STATUS

Global Linetype scale

CELTYPE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

BYLAYER

DDLTYPE
DDEMODES
DDLMODES (R14)
LINETYPE
STATUS

Current object Linetype

CELWEIGHT
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

-1

LWEIGHT

Current object line weight.

-1 - Sets Lineweight to "ByLayer"
-2 - Sets Lineweight to "ByBlock"
-3 - Sets Lineweight to Default. Line
weight is controlled by the system
variable LWDEFAULT
Other values include 0, 5, 9, 13, 15, 18,
20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 53, 60, 70, 80,
90, 100, 106, 120, 140, 158, 200 and
211. These values are expressed in
hundredths of a millimeter.

CHAMFERA
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.0000

CHAMFER

First Chamfer distance

CHAMFERB
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.0000

CHAMFER

Second Chamfer distance

CHAMFERC
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

0.0000

CHAMFER

Chamfer distance

CHAMFERD
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

0.0000

CHAMFER

Chamfer angle

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 9

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

CHAMMODE
(Stored: Not Saved)
R13 2005

CHAMFER

Chamfer creation mode:

0 - Chamfer by two distances
1 - Chamfer by distance and angle

CIRCLERAD
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

0.0000

CIRCLE

Last circle radius

0 - No default
n - Last used value

CLAYER
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDLMODES
LAYER
-LAYER(R14)
STATUS

AutoLISP programs:
0 - Off
1 - On

CMDNAMES
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

SETVAR

Any Command

Current active command

CMLJUST
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

MLINE

Multiline Justification:
0 - Top
1 - Middle
2 - Bottom

CMLSCALE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

1.0000

MLINE

Multiline Scale:
0 - Single Line
1 - Default width
n - Distance between lines

CMLSTYLE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

STANDARD

MLINE
MLSTYLE

Current Multiline style

COMPASS
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2000 2005

3DORBIT

Toggles the display of the 3D compass On or

Off in viewports.
0 - Turns Off the 3D compass
1 - Turns On the 3D compass

COORDS
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

Environment

Coordinate display:
0 - Update on points picked only
1 - Continuous update
2 - Display Polar during a request

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 11

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

CPLOTSTYLE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

"ByColor"

PLOT

The current plot style for new objects. Values

are based on the Plot Style loaded.
"ByColor"
"ByBlock"
"Normal"
"User Defined"

CPROFILE
(Stored: In Registry)
(Read-only)
R2000 2005

Vanilla

PREFERENCES
OPTIONS

The current user profile that is loaded.

CPUTICKS
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Undocumented)
(Read-only)
R2000i 2005

2593123458419.000

Environment

Number of CPU clock ticks and is from the

Pentium counter register. Its a very high
frequency timer.

CTAB
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

Model

Environment

The layout tab that is currently in use within

the drawing.

CTABLESTYLE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2005

Standard

TABLE
TABLESTYLE
PROPERTIES
STATUS

Current Table Style name

CURRENTPROFILE
(Stored: In Registry)
(Read-only)
R14

Vanilla

PREFERENCES

The current user profile that is loaded.

CURSORSIZE
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

PREFERENCES
OPTIONS

Current cursor size. Valid range is 1 to 100.

CVPORT
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

VPORTS

Total number of viewports currently allowed

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 12

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

DATE
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

2451225.90308183

TIME

Current date and time in Julian format

DBCSTATE
(Undocumented)
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R2000i 2005

DBCONNECT
DBCCLOSE

Holds the display state of dbConnect.

0 - Not displayed in the environment
1 - Currently displayed in the environment

DBGLISTALL
(Undocumented)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 R14

DBMOD
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

Controls the type of Debug listing possibly

indicating a Debug List All.
0 and 1 are the only valid values.
Used by most
commands

Status of modifications to draw:

1 - Object database modified
2 - Symbol Table
4 - Database variable modified
8 - Window modified
16 - View modified
Added to R2005
32 - Field modified

DCTCUST
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

SPELL

Path of where the custom dictionary is located:

C:\Program\support\sample.cst.

DCTMAIN
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

enu

SPELL

Displays the main dictionary for spelling

DEFLPLSTYLE
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

"ByColor"

PLOT
PUBLISH

Controls the default plot style associated with

new layers.

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 13

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

DEFPLSTYLE
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

"ByColor"

PLOT
PUBLISH

Controls the default plot style associated with

new objects.

DELOBJ
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

Modify Commands

Determines whether source objects are deleted:

0 - Objects deleted
1 - Objects retained

DEMANDLOAD
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

PREFERENCES
OPTIONS

Determines how AutoCAD interacts with

custom objects created by a third-party
application
0 - Demand loading is off
1 - Application is loaded when you open a
drawing containing the custom objects
2 - Application is loaded when you invoke
one of the applications commands
3 - Application is loaded when a drawing
contain custom objects is opened and/or
one of the applications commands are
invoked

DIASTAT
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

DD*****

State of how the user exited a dialog box:

0 - Cancel
1 - OK

DIMADEC
(Stored: In Drawing)
R14 2005

-1

DDIM

The number of places of precision displayed

for angular dimension text:
-1 - Uses DIMDEC value
0 - No decimal places used
8 - Maximum decimal places

DIMALT
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

OFF (or 0)

DDIM

Determines the state of creation which includes

the measurement in alternative units:
Off (0) - Dont add text
On (1) - Add text

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 14

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

DIMALTD
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDIM

The number of decimal places in alternate

units.

DIMATLF
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

25.4000

DDIM

Scale factor in alternate units.

DIMALTRND
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

0.0000

DDIM

Rounds of the value of the alternate units.

DIMAPOST
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDIM

Specifies a prefix or suffix (or both) to the

alternate dimension measurement.

DIMASO
(Obsolete R2004 & up)
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

1 (or On)

DDIM

Controls the associativity of dimension objects.

0 - Off
1 - On

DIMASSOC
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2002 2005

DDIM

Controls the associativity of dimension objects.

0 - Creates dimensions that are exploded. No
association between any objects that are
created is maintained.
1 - Non-associative dimension objects are
created. All objects that are created interact
as if they where one complete object, if the
definition point is moved.
2 - Associative dimension objects are created.
All objects that are created interact as if
they where one complete object, more than
one definition point is created based on
geometric points.

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 16

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

DIMASZ
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.1800

DDIM

Size of dimension lines and arrowheads.

dimensions. The number supplied will be used
to ensure that dimensions don't become over
laid.

DIMDSEP
(Stored: In Drawing)
R14 2005

DDIM

Allows you to change the decimal separator

when DIMUNITS is set to 2.

DIMEXE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.1800

DDIM

Controls the distance that an extension line will

be created beyond the dimension line.

Controls the gap around the dimension text in

the dimension line.

Notes:

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Variable

AutoCAD System Variables

Default Value

Appendix C - 20

Command(s)
affected

Description

DIMJUST
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

DDIM

dimensions should be drawn by.

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 22

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

lines (only when text is forced on the outside of
the extension lines).
0 - Suppress Off
1 - Suppress On

DIMSTYLE
(Read-only)
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

"STANDARD"

DDIM

Dimension Style that is currently active.

DIMTAD
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDIM

Justification of vertical dimension text.

0 - Centered inside dimension
1 - Above dimension line
2 - On the side of the dimension line opposite
of the dimension points
3 - Conform to JIS standards

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 23

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

DIMTDEC
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

DDIM

Decimal places represented in the primary

dimension tolerance text.

DIMTFAC
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

1.0000

DDIM

Scale factor for dimension tolerance text height

and fraction height.

DIMTIH
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

On (or 1)

DDIM

Determines if dimension text inside the

extension lines is aligned or horizontal with the
dimension line.
0 - Align with dimension
1 - Horizontal to the dimension

Determines how text will be placed during the

creation of a dimension.
0 - Text always does to it's default place
1 - Dimension text moves freely along the
dimension line as you drag the dimension
into place

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 26

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

DIMZIN
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDIM

Determines if zeros will be suppressed or not in

the primary unit value.
0 - Suppresses zero feet and zero inches
1 - Includes zero feet and zero inches
2 - Includes zero feet and suppresses zero
inches
3 - Suppresses zero feet and includes zero
inches
4 - Suppresses leading zeroes in decimal
dimensions (for example, 0.2500 becomes
.2500)
8 - Suppresses trailing zeroes in decimal
dimensions (for example, 1.2500 becomes
1.25)
12 - Suppresses both leading and trailing
zeroes (for example, 0.2500 becomes .25)
Note: AutoLISP functions (rtos) and (angtos)
are affected by these settings.

DISPSILH
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

PREFERENCES

Displays silhouette of 3D solids:

0 - Off
1 - On

DISTANCE
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

125.1875

DISTANCE

Last distance measured with the Distance or

Dist command.

DONUTID
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

0.5000

DONUT

Inside diameter of a Doughnut or Donut

DONUTOD
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

1.0000

DONUT

Outside diameter of a Doughnut or Donut

Notes:

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Appendix C - 27

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

DRAGMODE
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

PREFERENCES

Drag mode:
0 - No Dragging
1 - On request
2 - Automatic

DRAGP1
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

PREFERENCES

Sets regen-drag input sampling rate

DRAGP2
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

PREFERENCES

Sets fast-drag input sampling rate

DRAWORDERCTL
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2005

Objects in Drawing

Controls the behavior of Draw Order

functionality.
0 - Default display of objects with Draw Order
is disabled or off. All new objects created
or added to the drawing will appear on top
and dont inherit Draw Order values from
objects that they are created from.
1 - Default display of objects with Draw Order
is enabled or on. Objects that are edited
reflect the correct Draw Order.
2 - Enables Draw Order inheritance for
objects that are created from other objects.
Draw Order is maintained between objects.
3 - Enables the full feature set of Draw Order
including both correctly displaying Draw
Order and inheritance of Draw Order.

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 28

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

DWGCHECK
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

On (or 1)

Environment

Controls the automatic data integrity check of

AutoCAD when a drawing is being opened.
AutoCAD R14
0 - Off
1 - On
AutoCAD 2000 and up
0 - Warns if the drawing has potential
problems before the drawing is opened
1 - Warns if the drawing has potential
problems before the drawing is opened and
the file was saved by an application other
than AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT
2 - Opens the drawing and notification is
handled via the command line if potential
problems were found
3 - Opens the drawing and notification is
handled via the command line if potential
problems were found and the file was
saved by an application other than
AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT

DWGCODEPAGE
(Read-only)
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

ANSI_1252

Environment

Drawing code page

(See SYSCODEPAGE)

DWGNAME
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

"Drawing1.dwg"

Environment

Drawing Name w/ Extension

DWGPREFIX
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

C:\Documents and
Settings\...\My
Documents\

Environment

Path Location of the current drawing

Notes:

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 29

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

DWGTITLED
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

Environment

Determines if the current drawing has been

named:
0 - Unnamed
1 - Named

DWGWRITE
(Obsolete R14 & up)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 R13

Environment

Determines the state in which a drawing is

opened. (For R14 and up use WRITESTAT)
0 - Read only
1 - Read and write

EDGEMODE
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

TRIM
EXTEND

Current edge mode for Trim & Extend:

0 - No Extension
1 - Extends cutting edge

ELEVATION
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.0000

Drawing and modify

commands

Elevation relative to current UCS

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AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 31

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

EXTNAMES
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

Drawing Database

Controls how AutoCAD will accept symbol

and table names from the user.
0 - R14 and previous parameters. Limits type
of characters to letters A to Z, numbers 0
to 9 and special characters to $ (dollar
sign), _ (underscore) and (hyphen). The
limit of 31 characters is also enforce.
1 - R2000 parameters. Limits type of
characters to letters A to Z, numbers 0 to 9
and any special character that is allowed by
Microsoft Windows or AutoCAD. The
limit of 31 characters is brought up to a
limit of 255.

FACETRATIO
(Stored: Not Saved)
R14 2005

3D/Display

Controls the aspect ratio of faceting for

cylindrical and conic ACIS solids.
0 - Creates an N by 1 mesh
1 - Creates an N by M mesh

FACETRES
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

0.5

3D/Display

Adjusts smoothness of hidden line or shaded

objects
0.01 - Minimum
10.0 - Maximum

FFLIMIT
(Obsolete R14 & up)
(Stored: In Config)
R12 R13

Environment

Maximum number of fonts loaded into memory

(TrueType and PostScript):
0 - No limit
n - Number of fonts total

Appendix C - 33
Used originally in R13 to exercise the object
pager. It no longer serves a function after R13.
Range of 0 to 4294967295 is valid.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 34

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

FONTALT
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

simplex.shx

PREFERENCES

Name of alternative font.

FONTMAP
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

..\support\acad.fmp

PREFERENCES

Name of font mapping file.

FRONTZ
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

0.0000

DDVIEW

Offset for Front clipping plane

FULLOPEN
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R2000 - 2005

OPEN
PARTIALOAD
PARTIALOPEN

shade (mixture of black) in a one-color fill or
gradient fill.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 35

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

GFCLRSTATE
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2004 2005

BHATCH

Specifies the gradient fill mode of one or two

color.
0 - Two-Color gradient fill
1 - One-Color gradient fill

GFNAME
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2004 2005

BHATCH

Specifies the pattern of the gradient fill.

1 - Linear
2 - Cylindrical
3 - Inverted cylindrical
4 - Spherical
5 - Inverted Spherical
6 - Hemispherical
7 - Inverted Hemispherical
8 - Curved
9 - Inverted Curved

GFSHIFT
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2004 2005

BHATCH

Specifies whether the gradient fill is centered

or shifted up and left.
0 - Centered
1 - Shifted up and left

GRIDMODE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDRMODES

Grid display:
0 - Off
1 - On

GRIDUNIT
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.5000,0.5000

DDRMODES

Spacing of grid X,Y

GRIPBLOCK
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

DDGRIPS

Grips are displayed in blocks:

0 - Insertion point only
1 - All entities within a block

0 - Single precision, less memory is used
1 - Double precision, more memory is used

HIDETEXT
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2002 2005

ON (or 1)

HIDE
SHADEMODE
Display

Toggles the behavior of text objects created by

the TEXT, DTEXT, or MTEXT commands are
processed during the HIDE command.
Off - Text objects are not hidden during the
processing of the Hide.
On - Text objects are hidden during the
processing of the Hide.

HIGHLIGHT
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

DDRMODES

Controls whether or not objects are highlighted

on screen after being selected.
0 - Off
1 - On

HPANG
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

BHATCH

Current hatch angle

HPSCALE
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

1.0000

BHATCH

Current hatch pattern scale factor

HPSPACE
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

1.0000

BHATCH

Current value for spacing used for user-defined

hatching

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 39

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

HYPERLINKBASE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

HYPERLINK

Specifies the path used for relative hyperlink in

the drawing.

IMAGEHLT
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

IMAGE

Controls how an image is hightlighte3d when it

is selected.
0 - Raster image frame is only highlighted
1 - Raster image is highlighted

INDEXCTL
(Stored: In Drawing)
R14 2005

Environment

Controls whether layer and spatial indexes are

created and saved in drawing files.
0 - No indexes are created
1 - Layer index is created
2 - Spatial index is created
3 - Layer & spatial indexes are created

INETLOCATION
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

http://www.autodesk.
com/acaduser

BROWSER

Default web site for Browser command

INSBASE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.000,0.000,0.000

INSERT

Insertion point for drawing when inserted

INSNAME
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

INSERT

Last block inserted

INTERSECTIONCOLOR
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2004 2005

257

HLSETTINGS

Controls the color that is used for intersection

Polylines. INTERSECTIONDISPLAY must
be turned On in order for this value to matter.
0 - ByBlock
1 to 255 - Standard ACI colors
256 - ByLayer
257 - ByEntity

INTERSECTIONDISPLAY
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2004 2005

Off

HLSETTINGS

Controls the use of INTERSECTIONCOLOR

for displaying intersection Polylines.
Off - Display of intersection Polylines is not
enabled
On - Display of intersection Polylines is
enabled

ISAVEBAK
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

PREFERENCES

Controls the creation of a backup file (BAK):

0 - No BAK file is created
1 - BAK file is created

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 41

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

ISAVEPERCENT
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

PREFERENCES

Total amount of wasted space in a drawing file

0 - Minimum
100 - Maximum

ISOLINES
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

Display

Number of Isolines per surface on objects

0 - Minimum
4 - Default
2047 - Maximum

LASTANGLE
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

ARC

End angle of last arc drawn

LASTPOINT
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

0.000,0.000,0.000

Most commands

Last point picked in the drawing. This is the

value that is used when the @ symbol is used
at the command line.

LASTPROMPT
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R14 2005

Most commands

Last string echoed to the command line

LAYOUTREGENCTL
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000i 2005

LAYOUT

Controls the display behavior of how a layout

acts when switching to it.
0 - Each time you switching to a layout tab, a
regeneration occurs
1 - Model and the last layout tab is cached into
memory
2 - Initial display of the tab is the only time
that a regeneration occurs and any other
time that the tab is activated it is read from
cache

LAZYLOAD
(Undocumented)
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

Environment

Controlled whether or not drawings would or

should be demand loaded.
0 - Off
1 - On

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 42

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

LENSLENGTH
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

50.0000

DVIEW

Perspective view lens length (mm)

LIMCHECK
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

Most commands

Controls creation of objects outside the

drawing limits.
0 - Object can be created outside limits
1 - Object must be created inside limits

LIMMAX
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

12.0000,9.0000

LIMITS

Upper right drawing coordinate

LIMMIN
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.0000,0.0000

LIMITS

Lower left drawing coordinate

LISPINIT
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

PREFERENCES

AutoLISP variables and function are preserved

between drawings:
0 - Preserved between drawings
1 - Destroyed between drawings

LOCALE
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R13 2005

en or enu

Environment

Language code of the current AutoCAD

version that is running

LOCALROOTPREFIX
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

C:\Documents and
Settings\

Environment

Location that points to the Local Settings

folder for AutoCAD on the machine or profile.
C:\Documents and Settings\<user
name>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2005\R16.1\enu\

LOGFILEMODE
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

Environment

Log file is maintained:

0 - Not maintained
1 - Maintained

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 43

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

LOGFILENAME
(Stored: In Drawing)
R14 2005

acad.log

Environment

Log file name and path

LOGFILEPATH
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

C:\Documents and
Settings\

Environment

Log file path

LOGINNAME
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

Environment

Displays the name configured with AutoCAD.

Maximum of 30 characters in length.

LONGFNAME
(Obsolete R14 & up)
(Stored: In Config)
(Read-only)
R13

Environment

Indicates if long file name support has been

enabled or disabled.

LTSCALE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

1.0000

Display

Current Linetype scale

LUNITS
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDUNITS

Linear Units mode:

1 - Scientific
2 - Decimal
3 - Engineering
4 - Architectural
5 - Fractional

LUPREC
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDUNITS

Decimal places represented in Linear Units

0 - Disables long file name support

1 - Enables long file name support

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 44

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

LWDEFAULT
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 - 2005

LWEIGHT

Sets the current default line weight, line

weights must be expressed in hundredths of
millimeters.
Valid line weights are:
0, 5, 9, 13, 15, 18, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 53,
60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 106, 120, 140, 158, 200,
and 211

LWDISPLAY
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 - 2005

Off (or 0)

LWEIGHT

Controls the display of line weights with each

tab in the drawing, setting is displayed with
each tab in the drawing.
0 - Line weight display is turned off
1 - Line weight display is turned off

LWUNITS
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 - 2005

LWEIGHT

Controls whether or not line weights are

displayed in inches or millimeters
0 - Inches
1 - Millimeters

MACROTRACE
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

Environment

A debugging tool for DIESEL expressions.

0 - MACROTRACE is disabled.
1 - Displays an evaluation of all DIESEL
expressions in the command line.

MAXACTVP
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 - 2005

MVIEW

Maximum number of viewports that can be

regenerated at the same time
0 - Minimum
32767 - Maximum

MAXOBJMEM
(Not documented)
(Stored: In Config)
R13 - 2005

Environment

Indicated how much physical memory would

be used before disk paging occurred. 0
equaled all memory would be allowed. This
was used under the older memory paging
system for R13 and is no longer used after
R13.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 45

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

0 - Normal
1 - Suppresses menu echo
2 - Suppresses printing of system prompts
4 - Disables ^P for menu echo
8 - Displays input/output strings

MENUNAME
(Stored: In Registry)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

...\support\acad

Current menu that is loaded

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 46

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

MILLISECS
(Undocumented)
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R2000i 2005

7758696

Environment

Number returned from the Win32

GetTickCount API. Its the number of
millisecs since the system was booted.

MIRRTEXT
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 - 2005

MIRROR

Disables mirroring of text

0 - Mirror text
1 - Retain text orientation

MODEMACRO
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

Environment

Used to help debug Diesel programming and

display values in the status bar

MSOLESCALE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2005

0.0000

INSERTOBJ

Controls the size of an OLE object that has text

when it is pasted into Model Space. This only
affects the initial size, and if the value is
changed has no affect on objects already in the
drawing.
>0 - Positive number scales by value
0 - DIMSCALE value is used for scaling

MTEXTED
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

Internal

MTEXT

Name of the editor for Mtext objects

MTEXTFIXED
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

MTEXT

Determines how the Mtext Editor is presented

to the user.
0 - Mtext Editor works in-place based on the
text height and size on screen. If text is
too large or small the in-place editing will
not be used.
1 - Mtext Editor will not use in-place editing
and will be displayed at the last used size
and location.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 47

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

MTJIGSTRING
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

abc

MTEXT

Displays a preview string when creating a

MTEXT object. Preview string shows what
the text will look like with the current font and
text size. A Max of ten characters is allowed in
this field.

MYDOCUMENTSPREFIX
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

C:\Documents
and

Environment

Location that points to the My Documents

folder on the machine or profile.
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\My
Documents

NFWSTATE
(Undocumented)
(Stored: In Registry)
(Read-only)
R2005

Environment

Retrieves the value that determines whether or

not New Features Workshop is available from
the Help pull-down.
0 - New Features Workshop is disabled
1 - New Features Workshop is enabled

NODENAME
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

"ac$"

Environment

File extension for temporary files.

NOMUTT
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2000 2005

Environment

Suppresses muttering of messages displayed by

AutoCAD.
0 - Resumes normal message muttering
1 - Suppress muttering indefinitely

OBSCUREDCOLOR
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2002 2005

257

HIDE
SHADEMODE
HLSETTINGS

Specifies the color of obscured lines. An

obscured line is a hidden line made visible by
changing its color and Linetype and is visible
only when the HIDE or SHADEMODE
commands are used and OBSCUREDLTYPE
is turned ON.
0 - ByBlock
1 to 255 - Standard ACI colors
256 - ByLayer
257 - ByEntity

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 48

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

OBSCUREDLTYPE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2002 2005

HIDE
SHADEMODE
HLSETTINGS

Specifies the Linetype of obscured lines.

Obscured Linetypes are not like standard
Linetypes in AutoCAD because they are
independent of zoom level.
0 - Off
1 - Solid
2 - Dashed
3 - Dotted
4 - Short Dash
5 - Medium Dash
6 - Long Dash
7 - Double Short Dash
8 - Double Medium Dash
9 - Double Long Dash
10 - Medium Long Dash
11 - Sparse Dot

OFFSETDIST
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

-1.0000

OFFSET

Last distance used with the offset command

OFFSETGAPTYPE
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 - 2005

OFFSET

Controls how the gap of a Polyline when offset

is acted upon.
0 - Extends the segments to fill the gap
1 - Gap is filled with a filleted arc
2 - Gap is filled with a chamfered line

OLEFRAME
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2005

Display
PLOT
-PLOT
PUBLISH

Controls the display of the frame around an

OLE object.
0 - No frame is displayed around an OLE
object and is not plotted
1 - Frame is displayed around OLE object and
is plotted
2 - Frame is displayed around OLE object and
is not plotted

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 49

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

OLEHIDE
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

Display

Controls the display of OLE objects in

AutoCAD for both display on screen and
plotting.
0 - All OLE objects are visible
1 - OLE objects are visible in paper space
2 - OLE objects are visible in model space
3 - No OLE objects are visible

OLEQUALITY
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

Display

Controls the default plot quality of an OLE

object that has been embedded into AutoCAD.
01234-

Prior to AutoCAD 2005

Line art quality, spreadsheet
Text quality, word document
Graphics quality, pie chart
Photograph quality
High quality photograph

0123-

AutoCAD 2005
Monochrome
Low quality graphics
High quality graphics
Automatically select

OLESTARTUP
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

Display

Specifies whether or not the OLE embedded

source application is launched when plotting.
0 - Application is not launched when plotting
1 - Application is launched when plotting

OPMSTATE
(Undocumented)
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R2000i - 2005

Holds the display state of Object Properties.

PROPERTIES
PROPERTIESCLOSE 0 - Not displayed in the environment
1 - Currently displayed in the environment
Added to R2004 and up
2 - Currently displayed in the environment,
but Auto-Hide is enabled

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 50

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

ORTHOMODE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 - 2005

Environment

Current Ortho mode setting

0 - Off
1 - On

OSMODE
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 - 2005

4133

All drawing and

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 52

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

PDSIZE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.0000

DDPTYPE

Controls the display size of Points.

0 - Point 5% of the graphics area height
>0 - Absolute size
<0 - Percentage of the viewport size

PEDITACCEPT
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

PEDIT

Controls whether or not the prompt Do you

want to turn it into one? <Y> is active in the
PEDIT command.
0 - Prompt is disabled
1 - Prompt is enabled

PELLIPSE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

ELLIPSE

Ellipse creation mode:

0 - True Ellipse
1 - Polyline

PERIMETER
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

0.0000

AREA, LIST,
DBLIST

Perimeter calculated by Area, List and Dblist

PFACEVMAX
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

PFACE

Maximum of vertices per face.

PICKSTYLE
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

DDGROUP and
HATCH

Controls group selection and associative

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 55

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

PLOTROTMODE
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

PLOT
PUBLISH

Current orientation of plots.

PLOTTER
(Stored: In Registry)
(Obsolete R2004 & up)
R12 2002

PLOT

Default plotter, based on the plotter number

assigned to the plotter name.
Value of 0 indicates the first plotter and can go
all the way up to 28. Maximum of 29 plotters
can be setup inside of AutoCAD.

PLQUIET
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

BATCH PLOTTING
SCRIPT

Controls whether or not AutoCAD will post

optional dialogs and nonfactual errors
0 - Displays plot dialog boxes and nonfactual
errors
1 - Logs nonfactual errors and doesn't display
plot related dialog boxes

POLARADDANG
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

POLAR SNAP

Contains a list of user-defined snap angles. A

list can be created by supplying a list of 25
different angles, and each value separated by a
semi-colon (;).

POLARANG
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

POLAR SNAP

Controls the default Polar Snap Angle.

Values can be: 90, 45, 30, 22.8, 18, 15, 10 and
5.

POLARDIST
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

0.0000

POLAR SNAP

Controls the snap increment when SNAPSTYL

is set to a value of 1.

0 - The effective plotting area is rotated so the

corner with the Rotation icon aligns with
the paper at the lower-left for 0, upper-left
for 90, upper-right for 180, and lower-right
for 270.
1 - The lower-left corner of the effective
plotting area is aligned with the lower-left
corner of the paper.
2 - Works the same as 0 value, except the X
and Y origin offsets are calculated relative
to the rotated origin position.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 56

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

POLARMODE
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

POLAR SNAP

Controls the setting for object snap tracking

and polar snap.
Polar angle of measurement:
0 - Polar angles are measured from the current
UCS
1 - Polar angles are measured from selected
objects
Object snap tracking:
0 - Track orthogonally only
2 - Utilize polar tracking settings in object
snap tracking mode
Use additionally supplied polar angles:
0 - No
4 - Yes
Acquire object snap tracking points:
0 - Acquire automatically
8 - SHIFT must be press to acquire point

POLYSIDES
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

POLYGON

Current number of sides that will be used for

the Polygon command.

POPUPS
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

Environment

Displays the status of the currently configured

display driver.
0 - Display does not support dialog boxes, the
menu bar, pull-down menus, and icon
menus
1 - Display supports all features

PRODUCT
(Stored: Not Saved)
R14 2005

AutoCAD

Environment

Returns the product name.

PROGRAM
(Stored: Not Saved)
R14 2005

acad

Environment

Returns the program or executable name.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 57

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

for Object Enablers.
0 - Prevents AutoCAD from checking for
Object Enablers
1 - AutoCAD will only look for Object
Enablers at the Autodesk Point A portal
web site. Live connection to the internet
must be established.
2 - Specifies the number of times AutoCAD
will try to check for the Object Enabler.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 58

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

PSLTSCALE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

MVIEW

Current paper space Linetype scale.

0 - Use model space scale factor
1 - Use viewport scale factor

PSPROLOG
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

PSOUT

Assigns a name for a prolog section to be read

from the acad.psf file when you are using
PSOUT command.

PSQUALITY
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

Drawing

Rendering quality of PostScript images and if

they are drawn filled or outlines.
0 - Turns off PostScript image generation
<0 - Number of pixels per AutoCAD drawing
unit for the PostScript resolution
>0 - Number of pixels per drawing unit but
uses the absolute value; causes
AutoCAD to show the PostScript as
outlines and does not fill them

PSTYLEMODE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

PLOT

Controls if the current drawing is in ColorDependent or Plot Style Name mode.

0 - Using Named Plot Style Tables
1 - Using Color-Dependent Plot Tables

PSTYLEPOLICY
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

PLOT

Controls whether an object's plot style is

associated with its color property. The new
value affects only newly created drawings and
pre-AutoCAD 2000 drawings.
0 - No association is made between color and
plot style. The plot style for new objects is
set to the value in DEFPLSTYLE, and new
layers are set to the value in
DEFLPLSTYLE.
1 - An object's plot style is associated with its
color.

PSVPSCALE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 - 2005

0.00000000

Display

Controls the scale factor of views that are for

newly created viewports. Value must be
expressed as a positive number.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 59

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

PUCSBASE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

Display

Sores the UCS name for Paper space only.

QAFLAGS
(Undocumented)
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

All commands and

AutoLISP

An internal system variable that is used by

Autodesk. It stands for Quality Assurance
Flags. Below are some of the values that I
have been able to test and round up. There are
more, but no one really knows them all because
each developer uses this variable differently.

1) QAFLAGS;1;^C
2) (setvar qaflags
1)
(command explode
all)
(setvar qaflags 0)
4) (alert hello)
512) Bind Xref as
Insert type

0 - Commands work like normal

1 - ^C in menu cancels grips in they are
active, simulating the ESCape key, also
allows the select option All to work for
explode when used in AutoLISP.
2 - No pauses during the List command
4 - No Alert boxes displayed
8 - Unknown
16 - Unknown
32 - Unknown
64 - Unknown
128 - Allows for the use of Noun/Verb and
Grips via. The AutoLISP command
function (e.g., emulate user picks while
AutoCAD is at the Command: prompt)
256 - Unknown
512 - Sets Bind type to insert in AutoCAD
R14

QAUCSLOCK
(Undocumented)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2000i 2005

Environment

Has something to do with locking/disabling

transparent UCS changes. Is linked to the
testing that was done in AutoCAD 2000i
(Banff).
0 - Default value
1 - Unknown

QTEXTMODE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

2D/Display

Quick text mode.

0 - Off
1 - On

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 60

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

acad.pgp file.
0 - Nothing needs to be reinitialized
1 - Digitizer I/O port reinitialization
2 - Plotter port reinitialization
4 - Digitizer reinitialization
8 - Display reinitialization
16 - PGP file reinitialization (reload)

RIASPECT
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Obsolete R14 & up)
R12 - R13

0.0000

Display

Changes the raster image aspect ratio.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 61

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

RIBACKG
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Obsolete R14 & up)
R12 - R13

Display

Changes the background color number.

RIEDGE
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Obsolete R14 & up)
R12 - R13

Display

Controls the edge detection feature for

importing an image.
0 - Disables edge detection
1 to 255 - Sets the threshold for RIEDGE
detection

RIGAMUT
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Obsolete R14 & up)
R12 - R13

256

Display

Used to control the number of colors GIFIN,

PCXIN, and TIFFIN use when they import a
color image

RIGREY
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Obsolete R14 & up)
R12 - R13

Display

Used to import an image as a gray-scale image.

0 - Gray-scale image importing is disabled.
>0 - Gray-scale is used to convert the image
as it's imported.

RITHRESH
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Obsolete R14 & up)
R12 - R13

Display

Used to control the importing of an image

based on brightness.
0 - RITHRESH is turned off.
>0 - RITHRESH is turned on and a
brightness filter is used to import the
image into the drawing.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 62

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

REMEMBERFOLDERS
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000i - 2005

Environment

Controls the path that is used for Look In or

Save In as the default.
0 - Uses the Start In value of the shortcut icon
on the desktop. This setting is used to
restore the behavior of AutoCAD 2000 and
previous releases.
1 - Uses the last path that was called up from
each particular dialog box. The Start In
value is ignored for AutoCAD 2000i after
the session has been started and changes
have been made under each dialog box.
The values are only held while the session
is active.

REPORTERROR
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 - 2005

Environment

Controls whether or not an error report is sent

to Autodesk when a fatal error occurs or
AutoCAD closes unexpectedly.
0 - Disables error report system
1 - Enables error report system

ROAMABLEROOTPREFIX
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 - 2005

C:\Documents
and

Environment

Location that points to the Application Data

folder for AutoCAD is on the machine or
profile.
C:\Documents and Settings\user
name\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD
2005\R16.1\enu\

RTDISPLAY
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 - 2005

RTZOOM
RTPAN

Display raster images during real-time zoom or

pan.
0 - Display raster image and OLE content
1 - Displays outline only

SAVEFILE
(Stored: In Registry)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

"Auto.sv$"

Environment

Autosave file name

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 63

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

SAVEFILEPATH
(Stored: In Registry)
(Read-only)
R2000 2005

"C:\Documents and
Settings\...."

Environment

Autosave file path

SAVENAME
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

Environment

File name w/ directory path of the current

drawing once you save it.

SAVEIMAGES
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Obsolete R14 & up)
R13

Drawing

Used to control writing graphics metafiles for

application-defined objects, solids, bodies, and
regions.
0 - All data except, solids, bodies and regions
are saved.
1 - Always saves images
2 - Never saves images

SAVETIME
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 2005

Environment

Current automatic save interval. Temp file of

drawing is saved to the name supplied in the
SAVEFILE variable.
0 - Automatic save is disabled
>0 - Interval in which the automatic save will
occur if a save is not preformed before
then.

SCREENBOXES
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

Display

Contains the value of number of boxes

displayed in the screen menu. If the screen
menu is turned off the value is zero.

SCREENMODE
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

Display

Stores the graphics/text state of the AutoCAD

display.
0 - Text screen is displayed
1 - Graphics area is displayed
2 - Dual-screen display is configured

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 64

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

SCREENSIZE
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

701.0000,373.0000

Environment

Current viewport size (pixels)

SDI
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 - 2005

Environment

Controls whether or not AutoCAD supports

Single or Multiple Document Environment.
0 - Multiple document environment support
1 - Single document environment support
2 - Multiple document environment is
disabled because the user loaded an
application that doesn't support multiple
document interface.
3 - User disabled multiple document
environment and the user also loaded an
application that doesn't support multiple
document interface.

SHADEDGE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

SHADE

Current shade style.

0 - Shaded faces only
1 - Shaded faces and edge background color
2 - Faces not filled in, and edges in object
color
3 - Faces in object color, and edges in
background color

SHADEDIF
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

SHADE

Percent of ambient light by diffuse

0 - Minimum
70 - Default
100 - Maximum

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 65

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

SHORTCUTMENU
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

Environment

Controls the status of the DEFAULT, EDIT,

and COMMAND shortcut menus should be
enabled or disabled.
0 - Disables DEFAULT, EDIT and
COMMAND mode
1 - Enables DEFAULT mode
2 - Enables EDIT mode
4 - Enables COMMAND mode whenever a
command is active
8 - Enables COMMAND mode whenever
options for a command is available at the
command line.
Added to R2004 and up
16 - Enables time delay right click feature

SHPNAME
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

SHAPE

Current shape name

SIGWARN
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

OPEN
XREF
INSERT

Controls whether a message is displayed

notifying the user that a drawing with a digital
signature is being opened.
0 - No warning message is displayed
1 - Warning message is displayed

SKETCHINC
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.1000

SKETCH

Increment of record for Sketch command

SKPOLY
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

SKETCH

Current mode of line generation for the Sketch

command.
0 - Lines
1 - Polyline

SNAPANG
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

All drawing and

modifying commands
- DDRMODES

Rotation angle for Snap/Grid.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 66

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

SNAPBASE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.0000,0.0000

All drawing and

modifying commands
- DDRMODES

viewport.
0 - Grid or normal snap
1 - Polar Snap, snaps along polar angle
increments and polar/object snap tracking.

SNAPUNIT
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.5000,0.5000

All drawing and

modifying commands
- DDRMODES

Spacing for snapping in the current viewport

SOLIDCHECK
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2000 2005

Environment

Controls whether or not solid checking is

turned on or off for the current AutoCAD
session.
0 - Solid verification is turned Off
1 - Solid verification is turned On

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 67

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

SORTENTS
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DDSELECT

Entity display sort order.

0 - Off
1 - Object selection
2 - Object snap
4 - Redraws
8 - Mslide slide creation
16 - Regens
32 - Plotting
64 - PostScript output

SPACESWITCH
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2000i 2005

Environment

Controls whether or not the user is allowed to

double click on a Viewport in a layout and
enter Model Space.
0 - Disables the double clicking on a Viewport
and doesnt allow the user to enter Model
Space
1 - Allows the user to double click on a
Viewport and enter Model Space

SPLFRAME
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

Display - EDGE

Display for Mesh and Polylines

0 - Off
1 - On

SPLINESEGS
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

SPLINE

Number of segments to be generated with each

Spline patch

SPLINETYPE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

PEDIT

Type of Spline generated with PEDIT

command.
5 - Quadratic B-Spline
6 - Cubic B-Spline

SSFOUND
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2005

SHEETSET

Holds the Sheet Set path and name that is

associated with the drawing file if it is found.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 68

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

SSLOCATE
(Stored: User Settings)
R2005

SHEETSET

Controls whether or not AutoCAD will go

through and attempt to locate a drawing sheet
set for the drawing that is being opened.
0 - Dont open the sheet set that is associated
with the drawing
1 - Open the sheet set that is associated to the
drawing that is being opened

SSMAUTOOPEN
(Stored: User Settings)
R2005

SHEETSET

Controls whether or not AutoCAD will display

the Sheet Set Manager when a drawing is
opened that is associated with a Sheet Set.
0 - Sheet Set Manager is not opened
automatically
1 - Sheet Set Manager is automatically opened

SSMSTATE
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2005

SHEETSET
SHEETSETHIDE

Holds the display state of the Sheet Set

Manager.
0 - Sheet Set Manager is not active
1 - Sheet Set Manager is active

STANDARDSVIOLATIO
N
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

STANDARDS

Controls the behavior of the Standards

violation notification system.
0 - Notifications are disabled
1 - A message box is displayed when a
violation to the standards occurs
2 - Icon is displayed in the drawing status bar
area notifying of a drawing that has been
opened or object modified that doesnt
meet standards

STARTUP
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

CHECKSTANDARDS

NEW

Controls the display of the Create New

Drawing dialog box.
0 - Displays the Select Template File dialog
box or uses the default template that is
specified under the File section of the
Options dialog.
1 - Displays the Startup and Create New
Drawing dialog box.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 69

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

STARTUPTODAY
(Stored: In Registry)
(Obsolete R2004 & up)
R2000i - 2002

TODAY
NEW,OPEN

Controls whether or not the Today window is

used or the Traditional startup dialog box.
0 - Displays Traditional startup dialog box
1 - Displays Today window

SURFTAB1
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

SURTAB

Number of faces generated about a given path

with Rulesurf or Tabsurf commands.

SURFTAB2
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

SURTAB

Density of mesh in the N direction with

Revsurf and Edgesurf commands.

SURFTYPE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

PEDIT

Type of surface-fitting performed by PEDIT

Smooth.
5 - Quadratic B-spline surface
6 - Cubic B-spline surface
8 - Bezier surface

SURFU
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

3D/Draw - PEDIT

Density of surfaces in the M direction

SURFV
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

3D/Draw - PEDIT

Density of surfaces in the N direction

SYSCODEPAGE
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 - 2005

"ANSI_1252 "

Environment

System code page, indicated in the acad.xmf

file.

TABMODE
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

Environment

Tablet mode
0 - Off
1 - On

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 70

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

TARGET
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

0.0000,0.0000,0.0000

DDVIEW

Location of the target in the current viewport

TBCUSTOMIZE
(Stored: In Registry)
R2005

Environment

Controls whether the user is allowed to

customize toolbars.
0 - Customization for Toolbars and
Accelerator Keys is disabled through the
UI.
1 - Toolbars and Accelerator Keys can be
customized

Appendix C - 71

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

TDUUPDATE
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R2000 2005

2451506.27970671

Drawing

Stores the time and date of the last update\save

TEMPPREFIX
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

"C:\Documents and
Settings\...\Temp\"

Environment PREFERENCES

Directory used to store temporary files

TEXTEVAL
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

TEXT and DTEXT

Determines how characters are evaluated when

sent trough script files of AutoLISP.
0 - All responses to prompts for text strings
and attribute values are taken literally
1 - Text starting with an opening parenthesis
[(] or an exclamation mark (!) is evaluated
as an AutoLISP expression

TEXTFILL
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

Display

Controls the filling of TrueType fonts while

plotting.
0 - Text as outlines
1 - Text as filled images

TEXTQLTY
(Stored: Not Saved)
R13 - 2005

Environment

TrueType font resolutions for plotting

0 - Minimum
100 - Maximum

TEXTSIZE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.2000

TEXT and DTEXT

Default height for newly created Text objects.

TEXTSTYLE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

"STANDARD"

TEXT and DTEXT

Current Text Style

THICKNESS
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.0000

All drawing
commands except 3D
commands

Current object thickness

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 72

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

TILEMODE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

MSPACE
PSPACE

Viewport mode.
0 - Paper space On
1 - Paper space Off

TOOLTIPS
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

Environment TOOLBAR

Display tooltips for toolbars

TPSTATE
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R2004 2005

TOOLPALETTES
TOOLPALETTESCLOSE

Holds the display state of the Tool Palettes.

0 - Tool Palettes Window is not active
1 - Tool Palettes Window is active

TRACEWID
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.0500

TRACE

Default trace width

TRACKPATH
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

POLAR SNAP
OBJECT SNAP
TRACKING

Controls the display of Polar and Object Snap

Tracking paths.
0 - Displays full screen object snap tracking
path
1 - Displays object snap tracking path only
between the alignment point and From
point to cursor location
2 - No display polar tracking path
3 - No display polar or object snap tracking
paths

TRAYICONS
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

Environment

Controls whether or not the notification icons

can be displayed in the status bar area.
0 - Icons do not appear in the tray
1 - Icons are allowed to be displayed in the
tray

TRAYNOTIFY
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

Environment

Controls whether or not notification balloons

are displayed for the running services in the
status bar tray.
0 - No notification balloons are displayed
1 - Notification balloons are displayed

0 - Off
1 - On

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 73

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

TRAYTIMEOUT
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

Environment

Controls the time interval that notification

balloons are displayed. Valid range of values
is 0 to 10.

TREEDEPTH
(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 2005

3020

Environment

Maximum number times the index can be

divided into branches.

TREEMAX
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

10000000

Environment

Limits memory consumption during drawing

regeneration.

TRIMMODE
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 2005

CHAMFER
FILLET

Trims selected edges for the Chamfer or Fillet

commands.
0 - Selected edges are left intact
1 - Selected edges should be trimmed to the
endpoints of chamfer lines and fillet arcs

TSPACEFAC
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2000 2005

1.0000

MTEXT

Specifies the line spacing of multi line text

distance measured as a factor of text height.

TSPACETYPE
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

MTEXT

Specifies the type of line spacing used for multi

line text.
1 - At Least adjusts the line spacing based on
the tallest characters that are found in a
line.
2 - Exactly uses the value for line spacing,
rather than individual character sizes.

0 - Spatial index is suppressed entirely.

This can cause problems with large
drawings by eliminating performance
improvements.
>0 - TREEDEPTH is enabled which is
expressed as integer of four digits. The
first two digits refer to model space, and
the second two digits refer to paper
space.
<0 - Model space objects are treated as 2D
objects ignoring the Z coordinate.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 74

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

TSTACKALIGN
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

MTEXT

Specifies the vertical alignment of text that is

stacked.
0 - Aligned from the bottom
1 - Aligned from the center
2 - Aligned from the top

TSTACKSIZE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

MTEXT

Specifies the percentage at which the stacked

text fraction height is relative to the selected
text's current height.

UCSAXISANG
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

UCS
UCSMAN

Contains the angle when rotating the UCS

around the X, Y, or Z axis options of the UCS
command.

UCSBASE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 - 2005

"WORLD"

UCS
UCSMAN

Contains the name of the UCS that defines the

origin and orientation of orthographic UCS
settings.

UCSFOLLOW
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 - 2005

Display

Plan view is generated whenever your drawing

changes UCS.
0 - UCS does not affect the view
1 - Any UCS change causes a change to plan
view of the new UCS in the current
viewport

UCSICON
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

Display

UCS icon display

0 - Off
1 - On
2 - Origin, On and floating
3 - On and displayed at the Origin

UCSNAME
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

Display

Name of the currently activated coordinate

system of the current space.

UCSORG
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

0.0000,0.0000,0.0000

Display

Origin of the current coordinate system

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 75

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

UCSORTHO
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

Display

Specifies whether or not when changing a view

that the UCS setting is restored or not.
0 - UCS setting doesn't change when a
orthographic view is restored
1 - UCS settings are restored when a
orthographic view is restored

UCSVIEW
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

Display

Controls whether or not the current UCS is

saved with a named view.
0 - UCS settings are not saved with Named
View
1 - UCS settings are saved when creating a
Named View

UCSVP
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

Display

Controls whether or not the UCS in active

viewports remains fixed or changes to reflect
the UCS of the current viewport.
0 - Unlocked; UCS reflects the UCS of the
current viewport
1 - Locked; UCS is stored in the viewport, and
is independent of the UCS of the current
viewport

UCSXDIR
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

1.0000,0.0000,0.0000

Display

X direction of the current coordinate system

UCSYDIR
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

0.0000,1.0000,0.0000

Display

Y direction of the current coordinate system

UNDOCTL
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

Drawing

Undo state
0 - UNDO is off
1 - UNDO is on
2 - Only one undo is allowed
4 - Auto option is on
8 - A group is currently active

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 76

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

UNDOMARKS
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

Drawing

Total number of marks current in the Undo

control.

UNDOONDISK
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Obsolete R14 & up)
R13

Environment

Used to control if the UNDO file is kept on the

hard drive or in RAM.
0 - Undo file is kept in RAM
1 - Undo file is kept on the hard drive

UNITMODE
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

Environment

Units display.
0 - Displayed as previously set
1 - Displayed in input format

UPDATETHUMBNAIL
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2005

Drawing

Controls whether thumbnails will be created

for Sheet Views, Model Views or Sheets.
0124-

Thumbnails to update:
Thumbnails are not updated
Sheet View thumbnails are updated
Model View thumbnails are updated
Sheet thumbnails are updated

When thumbnails should be updated:

0 - Update thumbnails manually - User
initiated
8 - Update thumbnails when accessed
16 - Update thumbnails when saving drawing
USERI1-5
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

Drawing

Total of five variables that can used to store

and recall values from of the Integer type.

USERR1-5
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

0.0000

Drawing

Total of five variables that can used to store

and recall values from of the Real type.

USERS1-5
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 2005

Drawing

Total of five variables that can used to store

and recall values from of the String type.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 77

Variable

WHIPTHREAD
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000i 2005

Display

Specifies how AutoCAD will use additional

processors on the machine. This system
variable has no effect on machines with single
processors.
0 - No multithreading is used
1 - Regeneration only is carried out by
multiple processors
2 - Redraw only is carried out by multiple
processors
3 - Regeneration and Redraw are carried out
by multiple processors

WMFBKGND
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2000 2005

0 (or Off)

EXPORT

Controls how the background of a WMF file or

Copy Clip is created and displayed in other
applications.
0 - Background is created as transparent
1 - Background is the same color as AutoCAD
background.

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 79

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

WMFFOREGND
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2000i 2005

0 (or Off)

EXPORT

Controls how the foreground color assignment

to AutoCAD objects of a WMF file or Copy
Clip is created and displayed in other
applications.
0 - Foreground and background colors are
swapped in order to ensure that the
foreground color is darker than the
background color
1 - Foreground and background colors are
swapped in order to ensure that the
foreground color is lighter than the
background color

WORLDUCS
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 2005

Display

World Coordinate System matches w/ UCS.

0 - UCS doesn't match WCS
1 - UCS matches WCS

WORLDVIEW
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 2005

DVIEW and
VPOINT

UCS changes to the WCS during DVIEW or

VPOINT commands.
0 - UCS is used
1 - WCS is used

WRITESTAT
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R14 2005

Drawing

Determines the state in which a drawing is

opened. (For R12 & R13 use DWGWRITE)
0 - Read only
1 - Read and write

XCLIPFRAME
(Stored: In Drawing)
R14 2005

XREF

Visibility of Xref clipping boundaries

0 - Boundary is not visible
1 - Boundary is visible

XEDIT
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 2005

REFEDIT

Specifies whether or not the current drawing

can be edited in-place (REFEDIT) when being
externally referenced by another drawing.
0 - Drawing can't be edited in-place
1 - Drawing can be edited in-place

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 80

Variable

Default Value

Command(s)
affected

Description

XFADECTL
(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 2005

REFEDIT

Specifies how much the surroundings of the

block or drawing that is being edited in-place is
faded out.
0 - Minimum percentage of fade
99 - Maximum percentage of fade

XLOADCTL
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

XREF

Controls Xref demand loading on or off.

0 - Demand load is off
1 - Demand load is off, but reference file is
kept
2 - Demand load is on

XLOADPATH
(Stored: In Registry)
R14 2005

Environment - XREF

Path for storing temporary copies of demandload Xrefs.

XREFCTL
(Stored: In Registry)
R12 - 2005

Environment - XREF

AutoCAD writes external reference log.

0 - Xref logs are not created
1 - Xref logs are created

XREFNOTIFY
(Stored: In Registry)
R2004 2005

Environment - XREF

Controls the notifications for the Xrefs that are

referenced to the open file.
0 - Notifications are disabled
1 - Enables Xref notification system.
Activates the status bar tray icon when a
drawing is opened that contains Xrefs. If
the drawing is missing an Xref the icon is
changed to include a yellow alert
exclamation symbol (!).
2 - Enables Xref notification system. Includes
the same as value 1 and also includes the
displaying of balloon messages.

XREFTYPE
(Stored: In Registry)
R2005

Environment - XREF

Controls the reference type for when attaching

an external reference.
0 - Attachment
1 - Overlay

Notes:

AutoCAD Productivity

AutoCAD System Variables

Appendix C - 81

Variable

Default Value

UCSXDIR ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 75
UCSYDIR ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 75
UNDOCTL ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 75
UNDOMARKS ................................................................................................................................................................................ 76
UNDOONDISK ............................................................................................................................................................................... 76
UNITMODE..................................................................................................................................................................................... 76
UPDATETHUMBNAIL .................................................................................................................................................................. 76
USERI1-5 ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 76
USERR1-5........................................................................................................................................................................................ 76
USERS1-5 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 76
VIEWCTR........................................................................................................................................................................................ 77
VIEWDIR......................................................................................................................................................................................... 77
VIEWMODE.................................................................................................................................................................................... 77
VIEWSIZE ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 77
VIEWTWIST ................................................................................................................................................................................... 77
VISRETAIN ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 77
VPMAXIMIZEDSTATE ................................................................................................................................................................. 77
VSMAX............................................................................................................................................................................................ 78
VSMIN ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 78
WHIPARC........................................................................................................................................................................................ 78
WHIPTHREAD................................................................................................................................................................................ 78
WMFBKGND .................................................................................................................................................................................. 78
WMFFOREGND.............................................................................................................................................................................. 79
WORLDUCS.................................................................................................................................................................................... 79
WORLDVIEW ................................................................................................................................................................................. 79
WRITESTAT ................................................................................................................................................................................... 79
XCLIPFRAME................................................................................................................................................................................. 79
XEDIT .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 79
XFADECTL ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 80
XLOADCTL .................................................................................................................................................................................... 80
XLOADPATH.................................................................................................................................................................................. 80
XREFCTL ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 80
XREFNOTIFY ................................................................................................................................................................................. 80
XREFTYPE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 80
ZOOMFACTOR............................................................................................................................................................................... 81

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