AutoCAD Productivity 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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System Variables R12 – R2005 “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) Description

affected
_LINFO “” Environment Hardware lock serial number. Getvar must be
(Undocumented) used in order to get the value of this system
(Read-only) variable.
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

_PKSER 339-XXXXXXXX Environment Returns the serial number assigned to

(Read-only) AutoCAD.
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

_SERVER 0 Environment Returns the status of the network license server

(Undocumented) of AutoCAD.
(Read-only)
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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*_TOOLPALETTEPATH “C:\\Documents and OPTIONS Contains the pathing for the Tool Palettes. So
(Stored: Registry) Settings\\…” it allows you to change different Tool Palettes
R2004 – 2005 based on different ones being stored in
different directories. A semi-colon (;)
separates each path.

_VERNUM “V.0.73” Environment Returns a build number for AutoCAD. It

(Undocumented) allows you to tell what service pack is installed
(Read-only) for AutoCAD.
(Stored: Not Saved) R13_c4a - “R.1.72c”
R13 – 2005 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 0 PREFERENCES Controls how AutoCAD will load the Acad.lsp

(Stored: Registry) OPTIONS file.
R2000 – 2005 0 - Loads into every drawing opened
1 - Loads into the first drawing opened only.
ACADPREFIX “C:\Program …\…” PREFERENCES List of support paths used by AutoCAD. These
(Read-only) OPTIONS paths may vary from the actual working paths
(Stored: Registry) for AutoCAD.
R12 – 2005

ACADVER “16.1” Environment Version number of AutoCAD

(Read-only) 14.0 - R14
(Stored: Not Saved) 14.01 - R14
R12 – 2005 15.0 - R2000
15.05 - R2000i
15.06 - R2002
16.0 - R2004
16.1 - R2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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ACIS15 0 Environment Format in which AutoCAD processes all solid
(Stored: Not Saved) objects.
R13 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 70 ACSIOUT ACIS version of SAT files created using the

(Stored: Not Saved) EXPORT ACISOUT command. Valid values are 15 –
R14 – 2005 18, 20, 21, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70.

ADCSTATE 0 ADCENTER Holds the display state of the AutoCAD Design

(Undocumented) ADCCLOSE Center.
(Read-only) 0 - Not displayed in the environment
(Stored: Not Saved) 1 - Currently displayed in the environment
R2000i – 2005

AFLAGS 0 DDATTDEF Default values for attribute creation modes.

(Stored: Not Saved) ATTDEF (sum of the following)
R12 – 2005 0 - No mode present
1 - Invisible
2 - Constant
4 - Verify
8 - Preset

ANGBASE 0.0000 DDUNITS Direction of Angle 0 (relative to the current

(Stored: In Drawing) UNITS UCS)
R12 – 2005

ANGDIR 0 DDUNITS Angle of rotation

(Stored: In Drawing) UNITS 0 - Counterclockwise
R12 – 2005 1 - Clockwise

APBOX 0 DDOSNAP AutoSnap aperture box display

(Stored: In Registry) OSNAP 0 - Off
R14 – 2005 1 - On

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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APERTURE 10 DDOSNAP Aperture size for object snap (pixels)
(Stored: In Registry) OSNAP 1 - Minimum
R12 – 2005 50 - Maximum

AREA 0.0000 AREA Last calculated area by Area, List or Dblist

(Read-only) DBLIST
(Stored: Not Saved) LIST
R12 – 2005

ASSISTSTATE 0 ASSIST Indicates the display status of the AutoCAD

(Stored: Not Saved) ASSISTCLOSE Info Palette.
R2005 0 - Info Palette is not active
1 - Info Palette is active

ATTDIA 0 DDATTE Attribute interface for entry:

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Command line prompts
R12 – 2005 1 - Dialog Box

ATTMODE 1 ATTDISP Display of Attributes on the screen.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Off, All attributes are turned off regardless
R12 – 2005 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 1 INSERT Determines if Attribute defaults are used when

(Stored: In Registry) inserting a symbol.
R12 – 2005 0 - Default Values
1 - Prompt for values

AUDITCTL 0 AUDIT Determines if a Log file is generated with each

(Stored: In Registry) Audit performed. File has the extension ADT.
R12 – 2005 0 - No Audit log is written
1 - Audit log is written

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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AUNITS 0 DDUNITS Angular unit mode.
(Stored: In Drawing) UNITS 0 - Decimal Degrees
R12 – 2005 1 - Degrees/Minutes/Seconds
2 - Grads
3 - Radians
4 - Surveyor’s Units

AUPREC 0 DDUNITS Number of decimal places displayed in angles

(Stored: In Drawing) UNITS
R12 – 2005

AUTOSNAP 63 DDOSNAP Controls display preferences of AutoSnap:

(Stored: In Registry) OSNAP 0 - Off
R14 – 2005 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 0 Environment AUX device status.

(Undocumented) Valid range of values is –32768 to 32767.
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

AXISMODE 0 Environment Legacy storage holder for the AXIS command

(Undocumented) located in AutoCAD prior to R12. 0 and 1 are
(Stored: Not Saved) the only valid values.
R12 – 14

AXISUNIT 0.0000,0.0000 Environment Legacy storage holder for the AXIS command
(Undocumented) located in AutoCAD prior to R12.
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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BACKGROUNDPLOT 2 PLOT Allows Plotting and Publishing of drawings to
(Stored: In Registry) PUBLISH happen as a background process allowing you
R2005 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 0.0000 DVIEW Offset for Back clipping plane
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

BINDTYPE 0 XREF Controls how Xref names are handled in a

(Stored: Not Saved) REFEDIT drawing when the commands XREF or
R2000 – 2005 REFEDIT are used.
0 - Traditional ("xref|walls" = xref$0$walls")
1 - Insert-type ("xref|walls" = "walls")

BLIPMODE 0 DDRMODES Display of blip marks:

(Stored: In Registry) BLIPMODE 0 - Off
R12 - 2005 1 - On

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CDATE 19990215.15560660 TIME Current date and time

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

CECOLOR “BYLAYER” DDEMODES Current object color. Prior to R2004 the value
(Stored: In Drawing) COLOR was returned from “1” – “255”, “BYLAYER”,
R12 - 2005 STATUS 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.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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CELTSCALE 1.0000 DDLTYPE Global Linetype scale
(Stored: In Drawing) DDEMODES
R13 – 2005 DDLMODES (R14)
LINETYPE
STATUS

CELTYPE “BYLAYER” DDLTYPE Current object Linetype

(Stored: In Drawing) DDEMODES
R12 – 2005 DDLMODES (R14)
LINETYPE
STATUS

CELWEIGHT -1 LWEIGHT Current object line weight.

(Stored: In Drawing) -1 - Sets Lineweight to "ByLayer"
R2000 – 2005 -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 0.0000 CHAMFER First Chamfer distance

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

CHAMFERB 0.0000 CHAMFER Second Chamfer distance

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

CHAMFERC 0.0000 CHAMFER Chamfer distance

(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 – 2005

CHAMFERD 0.0000 CHAMFER Chamfer angle

(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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CHAMMODE 0 CHAMFER Chamfer creation mode:
(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Chamfer by two distances
R13 – 2005 1 - Chamfer by distance and angle

CIRCLERAD 0.0000 CIRCLE Last circle radius

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - No default
R12 – 2005 n - Last used value

CLAYER “0” DDLMODES Current layer

(Stored: In Drawing) LAYER
R12 – 2005 -LAYER(R14)
STATUS

CLEANSCREENSTATE 0 Environment Holds the current state of Clean Screen

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - AutoCAD is in normal state displaying the
R2004 – 2005 Title bar, Toolbars and Palettes
1 - AutoCAD is in Clean Screen state and the
Title bar, Toolbars and Palettes are not
displayed

CMDACTIVE 0 Any Command Current type of command active:

(Stored: Not Saved) 1 - Regular command
(Read-only) 2 - Transparent command
R12 – 2005 4 - Script file
8 - Dialog box
16 - AutoLISP or DDE command

Added to R2000 and up

32 - AutoLISP is active, but is only visible to
a command that is defined by
64 - ObjectARX.
ObjectARX command is currently active

CMDDIA 1 Environment Command dialog box interface style:

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Command line
R12 – 2005 1 - Dialog box

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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CMDECHO 1 Environment Controls command prompt echoing from
(Stored: Not Saved) AutoLISP programs:
R12 – 2005 0 - Off
1 - On

CMDNAMES “SETVAR” Any Command Current active command

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

CMLJUST 0 MLINE Multiline Justification:

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Top
R13 – 2005 1 - Middle
2 - Bottom

CMLSCALE 1.0000 MLINE Multiline Scale:

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Single Line
R13 – 2005 1 - Default width
n - Distance between lines

CMLSTYLE “STANDARD” MLINE Current Multiline style

(Stored: In Drawing) MLSTYLE
R13 – 2005

COMPASS 0 3DORBIT Toggles the display of the 3D compass On or

(Stored: Not Saved) Off in viewports.
R2000 – 2005 0 - Turns Off the 3D compass
1 - Turns On the 3D compass

COORDS 1 Environment Coordinate display:

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Update on points picked only
R12 – 2005 1 - Continuous update
2 - Display Polar during a request

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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CPLOTSTYLE "ByColor" PLOT The current plot style for new objects. Values
(Stored: In Drawing) are based on the Plot Style loaded.
R2000 – 2005 "ByColor"
"ByBlock"
"Normal"
"User Defined"

CPROFILE “Vanilla” PREFERENCES The current user profile that is loaded.

(Stored: In Registry) OPTIONS
(Read-only)
R2000 – 2005

CPUTICKS 2593123458419.000 Environment Number of CPU clock ticks and is from the
(Stored: Not Saved) Pentium counter register. It’s a very high
(Undocumented) frequency timer.
(Read-only)
R2000i – 2005

CTAB “Model” Environment The layout tab that is currently in use within
(Stored: In Drawing) the drawing.
R2000 – 2005

CTABLESTYLE “Standard” TABLE Current Table Style name

(Stored: In Drawing) TABLESTYLE
R2005 PROPERTIES
STATUS

CURRENTPROFILE “Vanilla” PREFERENCES The current user profile that is loaded.

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

CURSORSIZE 5 PREFERENCES Current cursor size. Valid range is 1 to 100.

(Stored: In Registry) OPTIONS
R14 – 2005

CVPORT 2 VPORTS Total number of viewports currently allowed

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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DATE 2451225.90308183 TIME Current date and time in Julian format
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

DBCSTATE 0 DBCONNECT Holds the display state of dbConnect.

(Undocumented) DBCCLOSE 0 - Not displayed in the environment
(Stored: Not Saved) 1 - Currently displayed in the environment
(Read-only)
R2000i – 2005

DBGLISTALL 0 Controls the type of Debug listing… possibly

(Undocumented) indicating a “Debug List All”.
(Stored: Not Saved) 0 and 1 are the only valid values.
R12 – R14

DBMOD 4 Used by most Status of modifications to draw:

(Stored: Not Saved) commands 1 - Object database modified
(Read-only) 2 - Symbol Table
R12 – 2005 4 - Database variable modified
8 - Window modified
16 - View modified

Added to R2005
32 - Field modified

DCTCUST “” SPELL Path of where the custom dictionary is located:

(Stored: In Registry) “C:\Program…\support\sample.cst”.
R13 – 2005

DCTMAIN “enu” SPELL Displays the main dictionary for spelling

(Stored: In Registry)
R13 – 2005

DEFLPLSTYLE "ByColor" PLOT Controls the default plot style associated with
(Stored: In Registry) PUBLISH new layers.
R2000 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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DEFPLSTYLE "ByColor" PLOT Controls the default plot style associated with
(Stored: In Registry) PUBLISH new objects.
R2000 – 2005

DELOBJ 1 Modify Commands Determines whether source objects are deleted:

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Objects deleted
R13 – 2005 1 - Objects retained

DEMANDLOAD 3 PREFERENCES Determines how AutoCAD interacts with

(Stored: In Registry) OPTIONS custom objects created by a third-party
R14 – 2005 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 1 DD***** State of how the user exited a dialog box:

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Cancel
(Read-only) 1 - OK
R12 – 2005

DIMADEC -1 DDIM The number of places of precision displayed

(Stored: In Drawing) for angular dimension text:
R14 – 2005 -1 - Uses DIMDEC value
0 - No decimal places used
8 - Maximum decimal places

DIMALT OFF (or 0) DDIM Determines the state of creation which includes
(Stored: In Drawing) the measurement in alternative units:
R12 – 2005 Off (0) - Don’t add text
On (1) - Add text

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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DIMALTD 2 DDIM The number of decimal places in alternate
(Stored: In Drawing) units.
R12 – 2005

DIMATLF 25.4000 DDIM Scale factor in alternate units.

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

DIMALTRND 0.0000 DDIM Rounds of the value of the alternate units.

(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 – 2005

DIMALTTD 2 DDIM The number of decimal places for the tolerance

(Stored: In Drawing) values in the alternate units of a dimension.
R13 – 2005

DIMALTTZ 0 DDIM Suppression of zeros in tolerance values:

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Suppresses zero feet and zero inches
R13 – 2005 1 - Includes zero feet and zero inches
2 - Includes zero feet and suppresses zero
inches
3 - Includes zero inches and suppresses zero
feet

You can also add to the above values:

4 - Suppresses leading zeros.
8 - Suppresses trailing zeros.

DIMALTU 2 DDIM Specifies what Alternative Units are used for

(Stored: In Drawing) dimensions except Angular.
R13 – 2005 1 - Scientific
2 - Decimal
3 - Engineering
4 - Architectural (stacked)
5 - Fractional (stacked)
6 - Architectural
7 - Fractional
8 - Windows Desktop

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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DIMALTZ 0 DDIM Suppression of zeros for alternate unit
(Stored: In Drawing) dimension values.
R13 – 2005 0 - Suppresses zero feet and inches
1 - Includes zero feet and precisely zero
inches
2 - Includes zero feet and suppresses zero
inches
3 - Includes zero inches and suppresses zero
feet
4 - Suppresses leading zeros in decimal
dimensions
8 - Suppresses trailing zeros in decimal
dimensions
12 - Suppresses both leading and trailing zeros

DIMAPOST “” DDIM Specifies a prefix or suffix (or both) to the

(Stored: In Drawing) alternate dimension measurement.
R12 – 2005

DIMASO 1 (or On) DDIM Controls the associativity of dimension objects.

(Obsolete – R2004 & up) 0 - Off
(Stored: In Drawing) 1 - On
R12 – 2005

DIMASSOC 2 DDIM Controls the associativity of dimension objects.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Creates dimensions that are exploded. No
R2002 – 2005 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.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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DIMASZ 0.1800 DDIM Size of dimension lines and arrowheads.
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

DIMATFIT 3 DDIM Determines how dimension arrows and text are

(Stored: In Drawing) arranged when insufficient space is available to
R2000 – 2005 place both within the extension lines.
0 - Both text and arrows are placed outside the
extension line
1 - Arrows is placed outside of the extension
line then text
2 - Text is placed outside of the extension line
then arrows
3 - Either arrows or text is placed outside of
extension lines, whichever fits best

DIMAUNIT 0 DDIM Units used for Angular dimensions.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Decimal degrees
R13 – 2005 1 - Degrees/minutes/seconds
2 - Gradians
3 - Radians
4 - Surveyor's units (seems to have been
removed from the On-line help around
R2000, but still works yet)

DIMAZIN 0 DDIM Suppresses the zeros in angular dimensions.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Leading and trailing zeros are displayed
R2000 – 2005 1 - Leading zeros are suppressed
2 - Trailing zeros are suppressed
3 - Leading and trailing zeros suppressed

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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DIMBLK “” DDIM Name of user defined block to be used with
(Stored: In Drawing) dimensions. Below is the listing of the
R12 – 2005 standard arrowhead values
“” - Closed Filled
”_DOT” - Dot
”_DOTSMALL” - Small Dot
”_DOTBLANK” - Blank Dot
”_ORIGIN” - Origin Indicator
”_ORIGIN2” - Origin Indicator 2
”_OPEN” - Open
”_OPEN30” - 30 deg
”_OPEN90” - 90 deg or Right Angle
”_CLOSED” - Closed
”_SMALL” - Small Blank Dot
”_NONE” - None
”_OBLIQUE” - Oblique
”_BOXFILLED” - Filled Box
”_BOXBLANK” - Blank Box
”_CLOSEDBLANK” - Blank Closed
”_DATUMFILLED” - Filled Datum Triangle
”_DATUMBLANK” - Blank Datum Triangle
”_INTEGRAL” - Integral
”_ARCHTICK” - Architectural Tick

DIMBLK1 "" DDIM Specifies user-defined arrowheads for

(Stored: In Drawing) dimensions. Used on the first side of the
R12 – 2005 dimension. See DIMBLK for full listing of
values.

DIMBLK2 "" DDIM Specifies user-defined arrowheads for

(Stored: In Drawing) dimensions. Used on the second side of the
R12 – 2005 dimension. See DIMBLK for full listing of
values.

DIMCEN 0.0900 DDIM Controls drawing of circle or arc center marks

(Stored: In Drawing) and center lines.
R12 – 2005 0 - No center marks or lines are drawn.
<0 - Center lines are drawn.
>0 - Center marks are drawn.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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DIMCLRD 0 DDIM Sets the color in which dimension lines, leaders
(Stored: In Drawing) and arrowheads will be created with.
R12 – 2005

DIMCLRE 0 DDIM Sets the color for the creation of extension

(Stored: In Drawing) lines in dimensions.
R12 – 2005

DIMCLRT 0 DDIM Sets the color for the creation of the text in a
(Stored: In Drawing) dimension.
R12 – 2005

DIMDEC 4 DDIM Sets the precision number of a dimension

(Stored: In Drawing) tolerance, (set under Primary Units).
R12 – 2005

DIMDLE 0.0000 DDIM Sets the distance in which the dimension line
(Stored: In Drawing) will be extended past the extension line.
R12 – 2005

DIMDLI 0.3800 DDIM Controls the distance between baseline

(Stored: In Drawing) dimensions. The number supplied will be used
R12 – 2005 to ensure that dimensions don't become over
laid.

DIMDSEP "" DDIM Allows you to change the decimal separator

(Stored: In Drawing) when DIMUNITS is set to 2.
R14 – 2005

DIMEXE 0.1800 DDIM Controls the distance that an extension line will
(Stored: In Drawing) be created beyond the dimension line.
R12 – 2005

DIMEXO 0.0625 DDIM Controls the distance from a dimension

(Stored: In Drawing) extension line to an object.
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DIMFIT 3 DDIM Controls how arrowheads and dimension text
(Obsolete – R2004 & up) should fit inside or the outside of a dimension.
(Stored: In Drawing) This system variable was replaced with
R13 – 2002 DIMAFIT and DIMTMOVE.
0 - Both text and arrowheads are placed on the
outside extension lines.
1 - Text is placed between the extension lines
and arrowheads are placed on the outside.
2 - Arrowheads are placed between the
extension lines and text is on the outside.
3 - Text is placed between the extension lines
and places the arrowheads on the outside.
4 - Same as number 3, except leaders also
connect the text to the dimension line
unlike number 3.
5 - Both arrowheads and text are placed on the
inside of the extension lines, unless not
enough space is between the extension
lines.

DIMFRAC 0 DDIM Controls the output of how fractions are

(Stored: In Drawing) displayed when DIMLUNITS are set to 4
R2000 – 2005 (Architectural) or 5 (Fractional).
0 - Horizontal
1 - Diagonal
2 - Not stacked

DIMGAP 0.0900 DDIM Controls the gap around the dimension text in
(Stored: In Drawing) the dimension line.
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DIMJUST 0 DDIM Controls the horizontal justification of
(Stored: In Drawing) dimension text.
R13 – 2005 0 - The text is above the dimension line and
center-justifies it in between the extension
lines.
1 - The text is placed next to the first
extension line.
2 - The text is placed next to the second
extension line.
3 - The text is placed above and aligned with
the first extension line.
4 - The text is placed above and aligned with
the second extension line.

DIMLDRBLK "" DDIM Controls the type of arrow that is used for a
(Stored: In Drawing) Leader. To display no arrowhead enter "." for
R2000 – 2005 the value.

DIMLFAC 1.0000 DDIM Globally scale all linear dimensions by a scale

(Stored: In Drawing) factor to adjust the size of the dimensions in a
R12 – 2005 viewport.

DIMLIM Off (or 0) DDIM Controls the appearance of whether dimension

(Stored: In Drawing) text is two numbers representing an upper and
R12 – 2005 lower limits.
0 - Normal text
1 - Limits text

DIMLUNIT 2 DDIM Controls the type of units used for all

(Stored: In Drawing) dimensions except angular dimensions.
R2000 – 2005 1 - Scientific
2 - Decimal
3 - Engineering
4 - Architectural
5 - Fractional
6 - Windows Desktop

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DIMLWD -2 DDIM Controls the line weight that is used for
(Stored: In Drawing) dimension lines.
R2000 – 2005 -2 - Sets Lineweight to "ByBlock"
-3 - Sets Lineweight to “ByLayer”

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.

DIMLWE -2 DDIM Controls the line weight that is used for

(Stored: In Drawing) extension lines.
R2000 – 2005 -2 - Sets Lineweight to "ByBlock"
-3 - Sets Lineweight to “ByLayer”

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.

DIMPOST "" DDIM Holds the user-defined prefix and/or suffix for
(Stored: In Drawing) the dimension text.
R12 – 2005

DIMRND 0.0000 DDIM The value for how linear dimension text is
(Stored: In Drawing) rounded.
R12 – 2005

DIMSAH Off (or 0) DDIM Activates the use of DIMBLK1 and DIMBLK2
(Stored: In Drawing) versus DIMBLK or the default.
R12 – 2005 0 - DIMBLK1 gets used
1 - DIMBLK1 and DIMBLK2 gets used

DIMSCALE 1.0000 DDIM Represents the global scale factor in which all
(Stored: In Drawing) dimensions should be drawn by.
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DIMSD1 Off (or 0) DDIM Suppress the first dimension line.
(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Suppress Off
R13 – 2005 1 - Suppress On

DIMSD2 Off (or 0) DDIM Suppress the second dimension line.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Suppress Off
R13 – 2005 1 - Suppress On

DIMSE1 Off (or 0) DDIM Suppress the first extension line.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Suppress Off
R12 – 2005 1 - Suppress On

DIMSE2 Off (or 0) DDIM Suppress the second extension line.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Suppress Off
R12 – 2005 1 - Suppress On

DIMSHO On (or 1) DDIM Determines if associative dimension text are

(Obsolete – R2004 & up) updated during dragging
(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Update Off
R12 – 2002 1 - Update while dragging

DIMSOXD Off (or 0) DDIM Suppress dimension lines outside the extension
(Stored: In Drawing) lines (only when text is forced on the outside of
R12 – 2005 the extension lines).
0 - Suppress Off
1 - Suppress On

DIMSTYLE "STANDARD" DDIM Dimension Style that is currently active.

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

DIMTAD 0 DDIM Justification of vertical dimension text.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Centered inside dimension
R12 – 2005 1 - Above dimension line
2 - On the side of the dimension line opposite
of the dimension points
3 - Conform to JIS standards

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DIMTDEC 4 DDIM Decimal places represented in the primary
(Stored: In Drawing) dimension tolerance text.
R13 – 2005

DIMTFAC 1.0000 DDIM Scale factor for dimension tolerance text height
(Stored: In Drawing) and fraction height.
R12 – 2005

DIMTIH On (or 1) DDIM Determines if dimension text inside the

(Stored: In Drawing) extension lines is aligned or horizontal with the
R12 – 2005 dimension line.
0 - Align with dimension
1 - Horizontal to the dimension

DIMTIX Off (or 0) DDIM Determines if dimension text is forced inside

(Stored: In Drawing) the extension lines even if it will not fit.
R12 – 2005 0 - Don't force text inside the dimension
1 - Always force text inside dimension

DIMTM 0.0000 DDIM Lower (or negative) tolerance value used if

(Stored: In Drawing) DIMLIM or DIMTOL are active
R12 – 2005

DIMTMOVE 0 DDIM Controls how dimension text can move:

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Dimension line moves with dimension text
R2000 – 2005 1 - Creates a leader when dimension text is
moved
2 - No leader is created and text can be freely
moved

DIMTOFL Off (or 0) DDIM Determines if a dimension line is still drawn

(Stored: In Drawing) between the two extension lines when the text
R12 – 2005 is placed outside of the extension lines.
0 - No line will be drawn
1 - Line is always drawn

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DIMTOH On (or 1) DDIM Determines if the dimension text outside of the
(Stored: In Drawing) extension lines is always drawn aligned or
R12 – 2005 horizontal to the dimension line.
0 - Align with dimension
1 - Horizontal to the dimension

DIMTOL Off (or 0) DDIM Determines if dimension text will include the
(Stored: In Drawing) use of the tolerance values (DIMTM and
R12 – 2005 DIMTP).
0 - No tolerance is added or used
1 - Tolerance is added

DIMTOLJ 1 DDIM Justification of vertical tolerance text, relative

(Stored: In Drawing) to the primary dimension text.
R13 – 2005 0 - Bottom
1 - Middle
2 - Top

DIMTP 0.0000 DDIM Upper (or positive) tolerance value used if

(Stored: In Drawing) DIMLIM or DIMTOL are active
R12 – 2005

DIMTSZ 0.0000 DDIM Determines the size at which a tick mark will
(Stored: In Drawing) be drawn at. If the value is zero, arrowheads
R12 – 2005 are drawn.

DIMTVP 0.0000 DDIM The percentage of dimension text height that

(Stored: In Drawing) will be used to create an offset for vertical
R12 – 2005 dimension text. DIMTVP is ignored unless
DIMTAD is set to a value of 0.

DIMTXSTY "STANDARD" DDIM Text style to be used for dimension text.

(Stored: In Drawing)
R13 – 2005

DIMTXT 0.1800 DDIM The default text height the will be used when a
(Stored: In Drawing) text style doesn't have a fixed height.
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DIMTZIN 0 DDIM Determines if zeros will be suppressed or not in
(Stored: In Drawing) tolerance values.
R13 – 2005 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)

DIMUNIT 2 DDIM Format of units for primary dimension text

(Obsolete – R2004 & up) (DIMALT must be set to 1). This system
(Stored: In Drawing) variable was replaced with DIMLUNIT and
R13 – 2002 DIMFRAC.
1 - Scientific
2 - Decimal
3 - Engineering
4 - Architectural (stacked fractions)
5 - Fractional (stacked fractions)
6 - Architectural
7 - Fractional
8 - Windows Desktop

DIMUPT Off ( or 0) DDIM Determines how text will be placed during the
(Stored: In Drawing) creation of a dimension.
R13 – 2005 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

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DIMZIN 0 DDIM Determines if zeros will be suppressed or not in
(Stored: In Drawing) the primary unit value.
R12 – 2005 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 0 PREFERENCES Displays silhouette of 3D solids:

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Off
R13 – 2005 1 - On

DISTANCE 125.1875 DISTANCE Last distance measured with the Distance or

(Read-only) Dist command.
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

DONUTID 0.5000 DONUT Inside diameter of a Doughnut or Donut

(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

DONUTOD 1.0000 DONUT Outside diameter of a Doughnut or Donut

(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DRAGMODE 2 PREFERENCES Drag mode:
(Stored: In Registry) 0 - No Dragging
R12 – 2005 1 - On request
2 - Automatic

DRAGP1 10 PREFERENCES Sets regen-drag input sampling rate

(Stored: In Registry)
R12 – 2005

DRAGP2 25 PREFERENCES Sets fast-drag input sampling rate

(Stored: In Registry)
R12 – 2005

DRAWORDERCTL 3 Objects in Drawing Controls the behavior of Draw Order

(Stored: In Drawing) functionality.
R2005
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 don’t 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.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DWGCHECK On (or 1) Environment Controls the automatic data integrity check of
(Stored: In Registry) AutoCAD when a drawing is being opened.
R14 – 2005
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 “ANSI_1252” Environment Drawing code page

(Read-only) (See SYSCODEPAGE)
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

DWGNAME "Drawing1.dwg" Environment Drawing Name w/ Extension

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

DWGPREFIX “C:\Documents and Environment Path Location of the current drawing

(Read-only) Settings\...\My
(Stored: Not Saved) Documents\”
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
DWGTITLED 0 Environment Determines if the current drawing has been
(Read-only) named:
(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Unnamed
R12 – 2005 1 - Named

DWGWRITE 1 Environment Determines the state in which a drawing is

(Obsolete – R14 & up) opened. (For R14 and up use WRITESTAT)
(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Read only
R12 – R13 1 - Read and write

EDGEMODE 0 TRIM Current edge mode for Trim & Extend:

(Stored: In Registry) EXTEND 0 - No Extension
R13 – 2005 1 - Extends cutting edge

ELEVATION 0.0000 Drawing and modify Elevation relative to current UCS

(Stored: In Drawing) commands
R12 – 2005

ENTMODS 0 Environment Increments with each object added or modified

(Undocumented) in the drawing database. Typically the
(Stored: Not Saved) incremented amount is by two, possibly open
(Read-only) and closing of the undo record.
R12 – 2005

ENTEXTS 1 Environment Determines the method of calculation used for

(Undocumented) the drawing extents.
(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Extents are calculated each time the value
R12 – 2005 is needed (Slowest and uses no memory)
1 - Extents are cached using a 2-byte number
2 - Extents are cached using a 4-byte number
(Fastest, but uses more memory)

ERRNO or *ERRNO 0 Environment Reports what type of error occurred with in the
(Stored: Not Saved) (AutoLISP) AutoLISP program. This value is reset at the
R12 – 2005 startup of AutoCAD and upon opening a
drawing. These values currently range from 0
– 85 in value. Look at the AutoCAD help files
for full list of values and meanings.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
EXPERT 0 Environment Controls the display of certain prompts:
(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Issues prompts normally
R12 – 2005 1 - Suppresses:
“About to regen, proceed?”
“Really want to turn the current layer off?”
2 - Suppresses the preceding prompts &
“Block already defined. Redefine it?”
“A block with this name already exists.
Overwrite it?”
Suppresses the preceding prompts &
3 - prompts related to Linetypes.
Suppresses the preceding prompts &
4 - prompts related to UCS Save and Vports
Save commands
5 - Suppresses the preceding prompts &
prompts related to DimStyle Save and
DimOverride commands

EXPLMODE 1 EXPLODE Explode mode:

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Does not explode NUS blocks
R13 – 2005 1 - Explodes NUS blocks

EXTMAX 12.000,9.0000,0.0000 Display Upper right drawing coordinate

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

EXTMIN 0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 Display Lower left drawing coordinate

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

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
EXTNAMES 1 Drawing Database Controls how AutoCAD will accept symbol
(Stored: In Drawing) and table names from the user.
R2000 – 2005 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 0 3D/Display Controls the aspect ratio of faceting for

(Stored: Not Saved) cylindrical and conic ACIS solids.
R14 – 2005 0 - Creates an N by 1 mesh
1 - Creates an N by M mesh

FACETRES 0.5 3D/Display Adjusts smoothness of hidden line or shaded

(Stored: In Drawing) objects
R13 – 2005 0.01 - Minimum
10.0 - Maximum

FFLIMIT 0 Environment Maximum number of fonts loaded into memory

(Obsolete – R14 & up) (TrueType and PostScript):
(Stored: In Config) 0 - No limit
R12 – R13 n - Number of fonts total

FIELDDISPLAY 1 FIELD Controls if a gray fill is used to display the use

(Stored: In Registry) MTEXT of a field on screen. The gray is not plotted.
R2005 ATTDEF 0 - Fields don’t show with a gray background
1 - Fields do show with a gray background

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
FIELDEVAL 31 FIELD Controls the various different ways that Fields
(Stored: In Drawing) MTEXT get updated.
R2005 ATTDEF 0 - No updating of the Fields happens
OPEN 1 - Update when the drawing is opened
SAVE 2 - Updated when the drawing is saved
SAVEAS 4 - Updated before the drawing is plotted or
QSAVE published
REGEN 8 - Updated when the drawing is to be
REGENALL packaged up with eTransmit
ETRANSMIT 16 - Updated when a regeneration is invoked
PLOT
PUBLISH

FILEDIA 1 Environment File dialog interface:

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Command line prompting is used
R12 – 2005 1 - Dialog box

FILLETRAD 0.0000 or 0.5000 FILLET Current radius for Fillets

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

FILLMODE 1 DDRMODES Fill mode for hatches and solids:

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Off
R12 – 2005 1 - On

FLATLAND 0 Environment Controlled whether or not the drawing had no

(Undocumented) elevation in the old 2 ½ D system. It allowed
(Stored: In Drawing) menus, scripts and LISP apps to run in Pre-R10
R12 - 2005 compatibility mode. Making LISP return and
honor 2D points instead of 3D points.

From R12 on the value was fixed at 0 and

can’t be changed to 1 anymore.

0 - Off (3D Points are used)

1 - On (2D points are used)

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FORCE_PAGING 0 Environment Used originally in R13 to exercise the object

(Undocumented) pager. It no longer serves a function after R13.
(Stored: Not Saved) Range of 0 to 4294967295 is valid.
R13 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
FONTALT “simplex.shx” PREFERENCES Name of alternative font.
(Stored: In Registry)
R13 – 2005

FONTMAP “..\support\acad.fmp” PREFERENCES Name of font mapping file.

(Stored: In Registry)
R13 – 2005

FRONTZ 0.0000 DDVIEW Offset for Front clipping plane

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

FULLOPEN 1 OPEN Indicates the state of the current AutoCAD

(Stored: Not Saved) PARTIALOAD drawing.
(Read-only) PARTIALOPEN 0 - Partially opened drawing
R2000 - 2005 1 - Fully opened drawing

GFANG 0 BHATCH Controls the angle used for the gradient fill.
(Stored: Not Saved) Valid value range is 0 – 360.
R2004 – 2005

GFCLR1 “RGB:000,000,256” BHATCH Specifies the color used in a one-color fill or

(Stored: Not Saved) the first color in a two-color gradient fill. The
R2004 – 2005 number is expressed as a True Color in the
format of “RGB:000,000,000”.

GFCLR2 “RGB:255,255,153” BHATCH Specifies the second color in a two-color

(Stored: Not Saved) gradient fill. The number is expressed as a
R2004 – 2005 True Color in the format of
“RGB:000,000,000”.

GFCLRLUM 1.0000 BHATCH Specifies the color tint (mixture of white) or a

(Stored: Not Saved) shade (mixture of black) in a one-color fill or
R2004 – 2005 gradient fill.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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GFCLRSTATE 1 BHATCH Specifies the gradient fill mode of one or two
(Stored: Not Saved) color.
R2004 – 2005 0 - Two-Color gradient fill
1 - One-Color gradient fill

GFNAME 1 BHATCH Specifies the pattern of the gradient fill.

(Stored: Not Saved) 1 - Linear
R2004 – 2005 2 - Cylindrical
3 - Inverted cylindrical
4 - Spherical
5 - Inverted Spherical
6 - Hemispherical
7 - Inverted Hemispherical
8 - Curved
9 - Inverted Curved

GFSHIFT 0 BHATCH Specifies whether the gradient fill is centered

(Stored: Not Saved) or shifted up and left.
R2004 – 2005 0 - Centered
1 - Shifted up and left

GRIDMODE 0 DDRMODES Grid display:

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Off
R12 – 2005 1 - On

GRIDUNIT 0.5000,0.5000 DDRMODES Spacing of grid X,Y

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

GRIPBLOCK 1 DDGRIPS Grips are displayed in blocks:

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Insertion point only
R12 – 2005 1 - All entities within a block

GRIPCOLOR 160 DDGRIPS Color of unselected grips:

(Stored: In Registry) 1 - Minimum (Red)
R12 – 2005 5 - Default (Blue)
255 - Maximum

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
GRIPHOT 1 DDGRIPS Color of selected grips:
(Stored: In Registry) 1 - Default (Red)
R12 – 2005 255 - Maximum

GRIPHOVER 3 DDGRIPS Color that a grip changes to when the mouse

(Stored: In Registry) pauses over the grip:
R2004 – 2005 1 - Minimum (Red)
3 - Default (Green)
255 - Maximum

GRIPOBJLIMIT 20 DDGRIPS The number of objects that will be used to

(Stored: In Registry) control the display of grips. If more objects are
R2004 – 2005 selected than what the value is set to, grips will
not be displayed. Valid range is 1 – 32,767.

GRIPS 1 DDGRIPS Grips are displayed when the user uses implied
(Stored: In Registry) selection.
R12 – 2005 0 - Off
1 - On

GRIPSIZE 10 DDGRIPS Size of Grip box (pixel)

(Stored: In Registry) 1 - Minimum
R12 – 2005 255 - Maximum

GRIPTIPS 1 DDGRIPS Tooltip is displayed for custom Grips, when the

(Stored: In Registry) mouse hovers over the grip:
R2004 – 2005 0 - Tooltips are turned off
1 - Tooltips are turned on

HALOGAP 0 HIDE Specifies a gap to be displayed where an object

(Stored: In Drawing) SHADEMODE is hidden by another object. The value that is
R2002 – 2005 specified is a percentage of one unit and is
independent of the zoom level. Specifies the
distance to shorten a displayed haloed line at
the point the object is hidden.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
HANDLES 1 Environment Entities use handles (Ids)
(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Off
(Read-only) 1 - On
R12 – 2005

HIDEPRECISION 0 HIDE Controls the accuracy of hides and shades

(Not Documented) 0 - Single precision, less memory is used
(Stored: Not Saved) 1 - Double precision, more memory is used
R14 – 2005

HIDETEXT ON (or 1) HIDE Toggles the behavior of text objects created by

(Stored: In Drawing) SHADEMODE the TEXT, DTEXT, or MTEXT commands are
R2002 – 2005 Display 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 1 DDRMODES Controls whether or not objects are highlighted

(Stored: Not Saved) on screen after being selected.
R12 – 2005 0 - Off
1 - On

HPANG 0 BHATCH Current hatch angle

(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

HPASSOC 1 BHATCH Controls the associative property of hatch

(Stored: In Registry) patterns or gradient fills:
R2004 – 2005 0 - Hatch patterns and gradient fills are not
associated to the boundaries
1 - Hatch patterns and gradient fills are
associated to the boundaries and update
when the boundaries are changed

HPBOUND 1 BHATCH Controls Bhatch and Boundary object creation:

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Polyline
R13 - 2005 1 - Region

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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HPDOUBLE 0 BHATCH Hatch pattern doubling. Used with User
(Stored: Not Saved) defined patterns.
R12 - 2005 0 - Disables doubling
1 - Enables doubling

HPDRAWORDER 3 BHATCH Controls the Draw Order of Hatches and Fills

(Stored: Not Saved) when they are created.
R2005 0 - None: No Draw Order is assigned
1 - Send to Back: Hatch or Fill is sent behind
all other objects
2 - Bring to Front: Hatch or Fill is brought to
the front of all other objects
3 - Send behind boundary: Hatch or Fill object
is sent behind or below the Hatch
boundary
4 - Bring to front of boundary: Hatch or Fill
object is brought up in front of the Hatch
boundary

HPGAPTOL 0.000 BHATCH Allows for a fuzz factor to be used when

(Stored: In Registry) objects are not completely closed when
R2005 generating the boundary to be hatched.
Maximum size for the gap that is to be bridged
with a range of 0 to 5000.

HPNAME “ANSI31” BHATCH Current hatch pattern name

(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

HPSCALE 1.0000 BHATCH Current hatch pattern scale factor

(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

HPSPACE 1.0000 BHATCH Current value for spacing used for user-defined
(Stored: Not Saved) hatching
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
HYPERLINKBASE "" HYPERLINK Specifies the path used for relative hyperlink in
(Stored: In Drawing) the drawing.
R2000 – 2005

IMAGEHLT 0 IMAGE Controls how an image is hightlighte3d when it

(Stored: In Registry) is selected.
R2000 – 2005 0 - Raster image frame is only highlighted
1 - Raster image is highlighted

INDEXCTL 1 Environment Controls whether layer and spatial indexes are

(Stored: In Drawing) created and saved in drawing files.
R14 – 2005 0 - No indexes are created
1 - Layer index is created
2 - Spatial index is created
3 - Layer & spatial indexes are created

INETLOCATION “http://www.autodesk. BROWSER Default web site for Browser command

(Stored: In Registry) com/acaduser”
R14 – 2005

INSBASE 0.000,0.000,0.000 INSERT Insertion point for drawing when inserted

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

INSNAME “” INSERT Last block inserted

(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

INSUNITS 1 AutoCAD Controls the units value that is used when an

(Stored: In Drawing) DesignCenter (ADC) image or block is drag 'n dropped from the
R2000 – 2005 ADC.
0 - No units
1 - Inches
2 - Feet
3 - Miles
4 - Millimeters
5 - Centimeters
6 - Meters
7 - Kilometers
8 - Microinches
9 - Mils

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
INSUNITS (cont.) 1 AutoCAD Controls the units value that is used when an
(Stored: In Drawing) DesignCenter (ADC) image or block is drag 'n dropped from the
R2000 – 2005 ADC.
10 - Yards
11 - Angstroms
12 - Nanometers
13 - Microns
14 - Decimeters
15 - Decameters
16 - Hectometers
17 - Gigameters
18 - Astronomical Units
19 - Light Years
20 - Parsecs

INSUNITSDEFSOURCE 1 AutoCAD Controls the content source unit value (0 - 20)

(Stored: In Registry) DesignCenter (ADC) See INSUNITS for list of value meanings.
R2000 - 2005

INSUNITSDEFTARGET 1 AutoCAD Controls the target drawing unit value (0 - 20)

(Stored: In Registry) DesignCenter (ADC) See INSUNITS for list of value meanings.
R2000 - 2005

INTERSECTIONCOLOR 257 HLSETTINGS Controls the color that is used for intersection
(Stored: In Drawing) Polylines. INTERSECTIONDISPLAY must
R2004 – 2005 be turned On in order for this value to matter.
0 - “ByBlock”
1 to 255 - Standard ACI colors
256 - “ByLayer”
257 - “ByEntity”

INTERSECTIONDISPLAY Off HLSETTINGS Controls the use of INTERSECTIONCOLOR

(Stored: In Drawing) for displaying intersection Polylines.
R2004 – 2005 Off - Display of intersection Polylines is not
enabled
On - Display of intersection Polylines is
enabled

ISAVEBAK 1 PREFERENCES Controls the creation of a backup file (BAK):

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - No BAK file is created
R13 – 2005 1 - BAK file is created

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
ISAVEPERCENT 50 PREFERENCES Total amount of wasted space in a drawing file
(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Minimum
R13 – 2005 100 - Maximum

ISOLINES 4 Display Number of Isolines per surface on objects

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Minimum
R13 – 2005 4 - Default
2047 - Maximum

LASTANGLE 0 ARC End angle of last arc drawn

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

LASTPOINT 0.000,0.000,0.000 Most commands Last point picked in the drawing. This is the
(Stored: Not Saved) value that is used when the ‘@’ symbol is used
R12 – 2005 at the command line.

LASTPROMPT "" Most commands Last string echoed to the command line
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R14 – 2005

LAYOUTREGENCTL 2 LAYOUT Controls the display behavior of how a layout

(Stored: In Registry) acts when switching to it.
R2000i – 2005 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 0 Environment Controlled whether or not drawings would or

(Undocumented) should be demand loaded.
(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Off
R13 – 2005 1 - On

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
LENSLENGTH 50.0000 DVIEW Perspective view lens length (mm)
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

LIMCHECK 0 Most commands Controls creation of objects outside the

(Stored: In Drawing) drawing limits.
R12 – 2005 0 - Object can be created outside limits
1 - Object must be created inside limits

LIMMAX 12.0000,9.0000 LIMITS Upper right drawing coordinate

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

LIMMIN 0.0000,0.0000 LIMITS Lower left drawing coordinate

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

LISPINIT 1 PREFERENCES AutoLISP variables and function are preserved

(Stored: In Registry) between drawings:
R14 – 2005 0 - Preserved between drawings
1 - Destroyed between drawings

LOCALE “en” or “enu” Environment Language code of the current AutoCAD

(Stored: Not Saved) version that is running
(Read-only)
R13 – 2005

LOCALROOTPREFIX “C:\Documents and Environment Location that points to the Local Settings
(Stored: In Registry) Settings\…” folder for AutoCAD on the machine or profile.
R2004 – 2005
“C:\Documents and Settings\<user
name>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2005\R16.1\enu\”

LOGFILEMODE 0 Environment Log file is maintained:

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Not maintained
R14 – 2005 1 - Maintained

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
LOGFILENAME “acad.log” Environment Log file name and path
(Stored: In Drawing)
R14 – 2005

LOGFILEPATH “C:\Documents and Environment Log file path

(Stored: In Registry) Settings\…”
R2000 – 2005

LOGINNAME “” Environment Displays the name configured with AutoCAD.

(Stored: Not Saved) Maximum of 30 characters in length.
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

LONGFNAME 1 Environment Indicates if long file name support has been

(Obsolete – R14 & up) enabled or disabled.
(Stored: In Config) 0 - Disables long file name support
(Read-only) 1 - Enables long file name support
R13

LTSCALE 1.0000 Display Current Linetype scale

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

LUNITS 2 DDUNITS Linear Units mode:

(Stored: In Drawing) 1 - Scientific
R12 – 2005 2 - Decimal
3 - Engineering
4 - Architectural
5 - Fractional

LUPREC 4 DDUNITS Decimal places represented in Linear Units

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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LWDEFAULT 25 LWEIGHT Sets the current default line weight, line
(Stored: In Registry) weights must be expressed in hundredths of
R2000 - 2005 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 Off (or 0) LWEIGHT Controls the display of line weights with each
(Stored: In Drawing) tab in the drawing, setting is displayed with
R2000 - 2005 each tab in the drawing.
0 - Line weight display is turned off
1 - Line weight display is turned off

LWUNITS 1 LWEIGHT Controls whether or not line weights are

(Stored: In Registry) displayed in inches or millimeters
R2000 - 2005 0 - Inches
1 - Millimeters

MACROTRACE 0 Environment A debugging tool for DIESEL expressions.

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - MACROTRACE is disabled.
R12 – 2005 1 - Displays an evaluation of all DIESEL
expressions in the command line.

MAXACTVP 64 MVIEW Maximum number of viewports that can be

(Stored: In Drawing) regenerated at the same time
R12 - 2005 0 - Minimum
32767 - Maximum

MAXOBJMEM 0 Environment Indicated how much physical memory would

(Not documented) be used before disk paging occurred. 0
(Stored: In Config) equaled all memory would be allowed. This
R13 - 2005 was used under the older memory paging
system for R13 and is no longer used after
R13.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
MAXSORT 1000 Environment Maximum number of symbols/files sorted in
(Stored: In Registry) listing commands. If number exceeds setting
R12 – 2005 nothing is sorted.
0 - Minimum
32767 - Maximum

MBUTTONPAN 1 Environment Controls how the wheel or the middle mouse

(Stored: In Registry) button responds.
R2000 – 2005 0 - Acts upon what is defined in the
ACAD.MNU file
1 - Starts panning with holding down the
mouse button or wheel

MEASUREINIT 0 Environment Sets drawing units as English or metric.

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - English, ANSI Hatch and Linetypes are
R14 – 2005 used
1 - Metric, ISO Hatch and Linetypes are used

Note: See also MEASUREMENT

MEASUREMENT 0 Environment Sets drawing units as English or metric.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - English, ANSI Hatch and Linetypes are
R14 – 2005 used
1 - Metric, ISO Hatch and Linetypes are used

MENUCTL 1 Environment Controls the page switching of the menu during

(Stored: In Registry) use of the Screen Menu
R12 - 2005 0 - Doesn’t switch pages
1 - Does switch pages

MENUECHO 0 Environment Menu echo/prompt controls

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Normal
R12 - 2005 1 - Suppresses menu echo
2 - Suppresses printing of system prompts
4 - Disables ^P for menu echo
8 - Displays input/output strings

MENUNAME “...\support\acad” MENU Current menu that is loaded

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

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
MILLISECS 7758696 Environment Number returned from the Win32
(Undocumented) GetTickCount API. It’s the number of
(Stored: Not Saved) millisecs since the system was booted.
(Read-only)
R2000i – 2005

MIRRTEXT 1 MIRROR Disables mirroring of text

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Mirror text
R12 - 2005 1 - Retain text orientation

MODEMACRO “” Environment Used to help debug Diesel programming and

(Stored: Not Saved) display values in the status bar
R12 – 2005

MSOLESCALE 0.0000 INSERTOBJ Controls the size of an OLE object that has text
(Stored: In Drawing) when it is pasted into Model Space. This only
R2005 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 “Internal” MTEXT Name of the editor for Mtext objects

(Stored: In Registry)
R13 – 2005

MTEXTFIXED 0 MTEXT Determines how the Mtext Editor is presented

(Stored: In Registry) to the user.
R2004 – 2005 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.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
MTJIGSTRING “abc” MTEXT Displays a preview string when creating a
(Stored: In Registry) MTEXT object. Preview string shows what
R2004 – 2005 the text will look like with the current font and
text size. A Max of ten characters is allowed in
this field.

MYDOCUMENTSPREFIX “C:\Documents Environment Location that points to the My Documents

(Stored: In Registry) and…” folder on the machine or profile.
R2004 – 2005
“C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\My
Documents”

NFWSTATE 1 Environment Retrieves the value that determines whether or

(Undocumented) not New Features Workshop is available from
(Stored: In Registry) the Help pull-down.
(Read-only) 0 - New Features Workshop is disabled
R2005 1 - New Features Workshop is enabled

NODENAME "ac$" Environment File extension for temporary files.

(Stored: In Registry)
R2000 – 2005

NOMUTT 0 Environment Suppresses muttering of messages displayed by

(Stored: Not Saved) AutoCAD.
R2000 – 2005 0 - Resumes normal message muttering
1 - Suppress muttering indefinitely

OBSCUREDCOLOR 257 HIDE Specifies the color of obscured lines. An

(Stored: In Drawing) SHADEMODE obscured line is a hidden line made visible by
R2002 – 2005 HLSETTINGS 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”

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
OBSCUREDLTYPE 0 HIDE Specifies the Linetype of obscured lines.
(Stored: In Drawing) SHADEMODE Obscured Linetypes are not like standard
R2002 – 2005 HLSETTINGS 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 -1.0000 OFFSET Last distance used with the offset command
(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

OFFSETGAPTYPE 0 OFFSET Controls how the gap of a Polyline when offset

(Stored: In Registry) is acted upon.
R2000 - 2005 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 2 Display Controls the display of the frame around an

(Stored: In Drawing) PLOT OLE object.
R2005 -PLOT 0 - No frame is displayed around an OLE
PUBLISH 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

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
OLEHIDE 0 Display Controls the display of OLE objects in
(Stored: In Registry) AutoCAD for both display on screen and
R14 – 2005 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 3 Display Controls the default plot quality of an OLE

(Stored: In Registry) object that has been embedded into AutoCAD.
R2000 – 2005
Prior to AutoCAD 2005
0- Line art quality, spreadsheet
1- Text quality, word document
2- Graphics quality, pie chart
3- Photograph quality
4- High quality photograph

AutoCAD 2005
0- Monochrome
1- Low quality graphics
2- High quality graphics
3- Automatically select

OLESTARTUP 0 Display Specifies whether or not the OLE embedded

(Stored: In Drawing) source application is launched when plotting.
R2000 – 2005 0 - Application is not launched when plotting
1 - Application is launched when plotting

OPMSTATE 0 PROPERTIES Holds the display state of Object Properties.

(Undocumented) PROPERTIESCLOSE 0 - Not displayed in the environment
(Stored: Not Saved) 1 - Currently displayed in the environment
(Read-only)
R2000i - 2005 Added to R2004 and up
2 - Currently displayed in the environment,
but Auto-Hide is enabled

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
ORTHOMODE 0 Environment Current Ortho mode setting
(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Off
R12 - 2005 1 - On

OSMODE 4133 All drawing and Object Snap mode:

(Stored: In Registry) modifying commands 0 - NONe
R12 - 2005 1 - ENDpoint
2 - MIDpoint
4 - CENter
8 - NODe
16 - QUAdrant
32 - INTersection
64 - INSertion
128 - PERpendicular
256 - TANgent
512 - NEArest
1024 - QUIck
2048 - APParent Intersection

Added to R2000 and up

4096 - EXTension
8192 - PARallel

OSNAPCOORD 0 Environment Determines if coordinates entered on the

(Stored: In Registry) command line override running object snaps.
R13 - 2005 0 - Running object snap settings override
keyboard coordinate entry
1 - Keyboard entry overrides object snap
settings
2 - Keyboard entry overrides object snap
settings except in scripts

OSNAPHATCH 0 Environment Determines whether Object Snaps are allowed

(Stored: In Registry) to act upon Hatch objects or not.
R2005 0 - Ignore Hatch objects when selecting points
with Object Snaps turned on
1 - Hatch objects are not ignored when using
Object Snaps and is the legacy behavior of
AutoCAD 2004 and prior

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
OSNAPNODELEGACY 0 Environment Controls whether or not the Node object snap
(Undocumented) is enabled at the grip points for a Mtext object.
(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Node snap is enabled at the grip points
R2005 1 - Node snap is disabled at the grip points
and is the legacy behavior of AutoCAD
2002 and prior

PALETTEOPAQUE 0 Environment Controls whether or not palettes use

(Stored: In Registry) transparency.
R2004 - 2005 0 - Transparency is enabled by the user
1 - Transparency is disabled by the user
2 - Transparency is enabled by the user, but is
unavailable due to hardware acceleration
being active or transparency unavailable
due to OS limitation
3 - Transparency is disabled by the user, but is
unavailable due to hardware acceleration
being active or transparency unavailable
due to OS limitation

PAPERUPDATE 0 PLOT Controls the display of a warning message box

(Stored: In Registry) when paper size is not supported by the plotter.
R2000 – 2005 0 - Warning box is displayed if the paper size
specified in the layout is not supported by
the plotter
1 - Sets paper size to the paper size specified
in the plotter configuration file

PDMODE 0 DDPTYPE Point display mode:

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Dot (minimum)
R12 – 2005 1 - No Display
2 - + Symbol
3 - X symbol
4 - Short Line / 100 (Maximum) Add 32 to
each of the above and get a different
symbol.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
PDSIZE 0.0000 DDPTYPE Controls the display size of Points.
(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Point 5% of the graphics area height
R12 – 2005 >0 - Absolute size
<0 - Percentage of the viewport size

PEDITACCEPT 0 PEDIT Controls whether or not the prompt “Do you

(Stored: In Registry) want to turn it into one? <Y>” is active in the
R2004 – 2005 PEDIT command.
0 - Prompt is disabled
1 - Prompt is enabled

PELLIPSE 0 ELLIPSE Ellipse creation mode:

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - True Ellipse
R13 – 2005 1 - Polyline

PERIMETER 0.0000 AREA, LIST, Perimeter calculated by Area, List and Dblist
(Stored: Not Saved) DBLIST
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

PFACEVMAX 4 PFACE Maximum of vertices per face.

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

PHANDLE 0 Unknown Gets the current palette handle. 0 equates to

(Stored: Not Saved) True Color. Valid range is 0 to 4294967295.
(Undocumented)
R12 – 2005

PICKADD 1 All modifying Controls additions to selections:

(Stored: In Registry) commands 0 - Creates a new selection set with each new
R12 - 2005 selection. Shift key must be held down to
add objects
1 - Adds objects to a selection without holding
down the Shift key. Hold the Shift key to
remove objects

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
PICKAUTO 1 All modifying Controls the use of automatic selection through
(Stored: In Registry) commands a window or crossing at all “Select objects:”
R12 – 2005 prompts.
0 - Disables PICKAUTO
1 - Enables windows and crossings at select
prompts

PICKBOX 3 DDSELECT Object selection target (pixels). Valid range is

(Stored: In Registry) 0 – 50.
R12 – 2005

PICKDRAG 0 All modifying Controls the drawing selection window

(Stored: In Registry) commands 0 - Two clicks to create selection
R12 – 2005 1 - One click and then drag

PICKFIRST 1 All modifying Allows you to select objects before starting a

(Stored: In Registry) commands command and then performing an edit/inquiry
R12 – 2005 command
0 - Disabled
1 - Enabled

PICKSTYLE 1 DDGROUP and Controls group selection and associative

(Stored: In Registry) HATCH selection
R13 – 2005 0 - No group selection or associative hatch
selection
1 - Group selection
2 - Associative hatch selection
3 - Group selection and associative hatch
selection

PLATFORM “Microsoft Windows Environment Current version of Operating System on the

(Stored: Not Saved) ...” computer
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
PLINEGEN 0 POLYLINE Determines how 2D Polylines generate a
(Stored: In Drawing) Linetype.
R12 - 2005 0 - Polylines are generated to start and end
with a dash at each vertex
1 - Generates the Linetype in a continuous
pattern around the vertices of the Polyline

PLINETYPE 1 POLYLINE Controls if old Polylines are converted to the

(Stored: In Registry) new format and if new Polylines are created in
R14 – 2005 the new format.
0 - When opening older drawings Polylines
are not converted; PLINE command
creates old style Polylines
1 - When opening older drawings Polylines
are not converted; PLINE command
creates new Light-weight Polylines
2 - When opening older drawings Polylines
are converted; PLINE command creates
new Light-weight Polylines

PLINEWID 0.0000 POLYLINE Last width used for Polylines

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

PLOTID “” PLOT Current plotter that is used for the default the
(Stored: In Registry) next time you plot.
(Obsolete – R2004 & up)
R12 – 2002

PLOTOFFSET 0 PLOT Controls whether the plot offset is relative to

(Stored: In Registry) PUBLISH the printable area or the edge.
R2005 0 - Plot offset is set relative to the printable
area.
1 - Plot offset is set relative to the edge of the
paper.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
PLOTROTMODE 0 PLOT Current orientation of plots.
(Stored: In Registry) PUBLISH 0 - The effective plotting area is rotated so the
R13 – 2005 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.

PLOTTER 0 PLOT Default plotter, based on the plotter number

(Stored: In Registry) assigned to the plotter name.
(Obsolete – R2004 & up) Value of 0 indicates the first plotter and can go
R12 – 2002 all the way up to 28. Maximum of 29 plotters
can be setup inside of AutoCAD.

PLQUIET 0 BATCH PLOTTING Controls whether or not AutoCAD will post

(Stored: In Registry) SCRIPT optional dialogs and nonfactual errors
R2000 – 2005 0 - Displays plot dialog boxes and nonfactual
errors
1 - Logs nonfactual errors and doesn't display
plot related dialog boxes

POLARADDANG "" POLAR SNAP Contains a list of user-defined snap angles. A

(Stored: In Registry) list can be created by supplying a list of 25
R2000 – 2005 different angles, and each value separated by a
semi-colon (;).

POLARANG 90 POLAR SNAP Controls the default Polar Snap Angle.

(Stored: In Registry) Values can be: 90, 45, 30, 22.8, 18, 15, 10 and
R2000 – 2005 5.

POLARDIST 0.0000 POLAR SNAP Controls the snap increment when SNAPSTYL
(Stored: In Registry) is set to a value of 1.
R2000 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
POLARMODE 0 POLAR SNAP Controls the setting for object snap tracking
(Stored: In Registry) and polar snap.
R2000 – 2005
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 4 POLYGON Current number of sides that will be used for

(Stored: Not Saved) the Polygon command.
R12 – 2005

POPUPS 1 Environment Displays the status of the currently configured

(Stored: Not Saved) display driver.
(Read-only) 0 - Display does not support dialog boxes, the
R12 – 2005 menu bar, pull-down menus, and icon
menus
1 - Display supports all features

PRODUCT “AutoCAD” Environment Returns the product name.

(Stored: Not Saved)
R14 – 2005

PROGRAM “acad” Environment Returns the program or executable name.

(Stored: Not Saved)
R14 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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PROJECTNAME “” Drawing Project name is assigned to the current
(Stored: In Drawing) drawing. Project Names help to keep track of
R14 – 2005 Xrefs and images easier, by assigning
additional support paths specific to the project
only.

PROJMODE 1 TRIM and EXTEND Projection mode for Trim or Extend operations
(Stored: In Registry) 0 - True 3D mode (no projection)
R13 – 2005 1 - Project to the XY plane of the current UCS
2 - Project to the current view plane

PROXYGRAPHICS 1 OPEN Determines if images of proxy objects are

(Stored: In Drawing) saved in the drawing.
R14 – 2005 0 - Image is not saved w/ drawing
1 - Image is saved w/ drawing

PROXYNOTICE 1 OPEN Displays a notice when a proxy is present as

(Stored: In Registry) you open a drawing and the application isn't
R14 – 2005 present.
0 - Proxy warning is not displayed
1 - Proxy warning is displayed

PROXYSHOW 1 OPEN Controls the display of proxy objects in a

(Stored: In Registry) drawing.
R14 – 2005 0 - Proxy objects are not displayed
1 - All proxy images show graphically
2 - Bounding boxes shown to represent proxy
objects

PROXYWEBSEARCH 1 OPTIONS Specifies how AutoCAD goes about checking

(Stored: In Registry) Object Enablers for Object Enablers.
R2000i – 2005 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.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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PSLTSCALE 1 MVIEW Current paper space Linetype scale.
(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Use model space scale factor
R12 – 2005 1 - Use viewport scale factor

PSPROLOG "" PSOUT Assigns a name for a prolog section to be read

(Stored: In Registry) from the acad.psf file when you are using
R12 – 2005 PSOUT command.

PSQUALITY 75 Drawing Rendering quality of PostScript images and if

(Stored: In Registry) they are drawn filled or outlines.
R12 – 2005 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 1 PLOT Controls if the current drawing is in Color-

(Stored: In Drawing) Dependent or Plot Style Name mode.
R2000 – 2005 0 - Using Named Plot Style Tables
1 - Using Color-Dependent Plot Tables

PSTYLEPOLICY 1 PLOT Controls whether an object's plot style is

(Stored: In Registry) associated with its color property. The new
R2000 – 2005 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 0.00000000 Display Controls the scale factor of views that are for
(Stored: In Drawing) newly created viewports. Value must be
R2000 - 2005 expressed as a positive number.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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PUCSBASE "" Display Sores the UCS name for Paper space only.
(Stored: In Drawing)
R2000 – 2005

QAFLAGS 0 All commands and An internal system variable that is used by

(Undocumented) AutoLISP Autodesk. It stands for Quality Assurance
(Stored: In Registry) Flags. Below are some of the values that I
R12 – 2005 1) QAFLAGS;1;^C have been able to test and round up. There are
more, but no one really knows them all because
2) (setvar “qaflags” each developer uses this variable differently.
1)
(command “explode”
0 - Commands work like normal
“all”)
1 - ^C in menu cancels grips in they are
(setvar “qaflags” 0)
active, simulating the ESCape key, also
allows the select option All to work for
4) (alert “hello”)
explode when used in AutoLISP.
2 - No pauses during the List command
512) Bind Xref as 4 - No Alert boxes displayed
Insert type
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 0 Environment Has something to do with locking/disabling

(Undocumented) transparent UCS changes. Is linked to the
(Stored: Not Saved) testing that was done in AutoCAD 2000i
R2000i – 2005 (Banff).
0 - Default value
1 - Unknown

QTEXTMODE 0 2D/Display Quick text mode.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Off
R12 – 2005 1 - On

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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QUEUEDREGENMAX 2147483647 Display Description not available.
(Stored: Not Saved)
R2004 – 2005

RASTERDPI 300 Display Controls paper size and plot scale when
(Stored: In Registry) changing between output devices from
R2005 dimensional (inches or millimeters) to
dimensionless (pixel) and vice versa. Valid
range is 100 to 32,767.

RASTERPREVIEW 1 Drawing Determines whether or not preview images are

(Stored: In Registry) saved with a drawing.
R13 - 2005 0 - No preview image is saved
1 - Image is saved with drawing

REFEDITNAME "" REFEDIT Indicates if a drawing is currently being edited

(Stored: Not Saved) from a state of reference, also holds the file
R2000 – 2005 name that is being edited.

REGENMODE 1 Display Drawing regeneration mode. Deals with the

(Stored: In Drawing) command Regenauto.
R12 – R2005 0 - Regen with each new view
1 - Regen only when required

RE-INIT 0 Environment Reinitializes the digitizer, digitizer port, and

(Stored: Not Saved) acad.pgp file.
R13 – 2005 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 0.0000 Display Changes the raster image aspect ratio.

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

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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RIBACKG 0 Display Changes the background color number.
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Obsolete – R14 & up)
R12 - R13

RIEDGE 0 Display Controls the edge detection feature for

(Stored: Not Saved) importing an image.
(Obsolete – R14 & up) 0 - Disables edge detection
R12 - R13 1 to 255 - Sets the threshold for RIEDGE
detection

RIGAMUT 256 Display Used to control the number of colors GIFIN,

(Stored: Not Saved) PCXIN, and TIFFIN use when they import a
(Obsolete – R14 & up) color image
R12 - R13

RIGREY 0 Display Used to import an image as a gray-scale image.

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Gray-scale image importing is disabled.
(Obsolete – R14 & up) >0 - Gray-scale is used to convert the image
R12 - R13 as it's imported.

RITHRESH 0 Display Used to control the importing of an image

(Stored: Not Saved) based on brightness.
(Obsolete – R14 & up) 0 - RITHRESH is turned off.
R12 - R13 >0 - RITHRESH is turned on and a
brightness filter is used to import the
image into the drawing.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
REMEMBERFOLDERS 1 Environment Controls the path that is used for Look In or
(Stored: In Registry) Save In as the default.
R2000i - 2005 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 1 Environment Controls whether or not an error report is sent

(Stored: In Registry) to Autodesk when a fatal error occurs or
R2004 - 2005 AutoCAD closes unexpectedly.
0 - Disables error report system
1 - Enables error report system

ROAMABLEROOTPREFIX “C:\Documents Environment Location that points to the Application Data

(Stored: In Registry) and…” folder for AutoCAD is on the machine or
R2004 - 2005 profile.

“C:\Documents and Settings\user

name\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD
2005\R16.1\enu\”

RTDISPLAY 1 RTZOOM Display raster images during real-time zoom or

(Stored: In Registry) RTPAN pan.
R14 - 2005 0 - Display raster image and OLE content
1 - Displays outline only

SAVEFILE "Auto.sv$" Environment Autosave file name

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

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
SAVEFILEPATH "C:\Documents and Environment Autosave file path
(Stored: In Registry) Settings\...."
(Read-only)
R2000 – 2005

SAVENAME "" Environment File name w/ directory path of the current

(Stored: Not Saved) drawing once you save it.
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

SAVEIMAGES 0 Drawing Used to control writing graphics metafiles for

(Stored: In Drawing) application-defined objects, solids, bodies, and
(Obsolete – R14 & up) regions.
R13 0 - All data except, solids, bodies and regions
are saved.
1 - Always saves images
2 - Never saves images

SAVETIME 10 Environment Current automatic save interval. Temp file of

(Stored: In Registry) drawing is saved to the name supplied in the
R12 – 2005 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 0 Display Contains the value of number of boxes

(Stored: Not Saved) displayed in the screen menu. If the screen
(Read-only) menu is turned off the value is zero.
R12 – 2005

SCREENMODE 3 Display Stores the graphics/text state of the AutoCAD

(Stored: Not Saved) display.
(Read-only) 0 - Text screen is displayed
R12 – 2005 1 - Graphics area is displayed
2 - Dual-screen display is configured

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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SCREENSIZE 701.0000,373.0000 Environment Current viewport size (pixels)
(Stored: Not Saved)
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

SDI 0 Environment Controls whether or not AutoCAD supports

(Stored: In Registry) Single or Multiple Document Environment.
R2000 - 2005 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 3 SHADE Current shade style.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Shaded faces only
R12 – 2005 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 70 SHADE Percent of ambient light by diffuse

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Minimum
R12 – 2005 70 - Default
100 - Maximum

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
SHORTCUTMENU 11 Environment Controls the status of the DEFAULT, EDIT,
(Stored: In Registry) and COMMAND shortcut menus should be
R2000 – 2005 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 "" SHAPE Current shape name

(Stored: Not Saved)
R12 – 2005

SIGWARN 1 OPEN Controls whether a message is displayed

(Stored: In Registry) XREF notifying the user that a drawing with a digital
R2004 – 2005 INSERT signature is being opened.
0 - No warning message is displayed
1 - Warning message is displayed

SKETCHINC 0.1000 SKETCH Increment of record for Sketch command

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

SKPOLY 0 SKETCH Current mode of line generation for the Sketch

(Stored: In Drawing) command.
R12 – 2005 0 - Lines
1 - Polyline

SNAPANG 0 All drawing and Rotation angle for Snap/Grid.

(Stored: In Drawing) modifying commands
R12 – 2005 - DDRMODES

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
SNAPBASE 0.0000,0.0000 All drawing and Origin for Snap/Grid.
(Stored: In Drawing) modifying commands
R12 – 2005 - DDRMODES

SNAPISOPAIR 0 All drawing and Current isometric drawing plane.

(Stored: In Drawing) modifying commands 0 - Left Isometric
R12 – 2005 - DDRMODES 1 - Top Isometric
2 - Right Isometric

SNAPMODE 0 All drawing and Current snap mode.

(Stored: In Drawing) modifying commands 0 - Off
R12 – 2005 - DDRMODES 1 - On

SNAPSTYL 0 All drawing and Style of snap for current viewport.

(Stored: In Drawing) modifying commands 0 - Standard
R12 – 2005 - DDRMODES 1 - Isometric

SNAPTYPE 0 All drawing and Controls the type of snap mode for the current
(Stored: In Registry) modifying commands viewport.
R2000i – 2005 0 - Grid or normal snap
1 - Polar Snap, snaps along polar angle
increments and polar/object snap tracking.

SNAPUNIT 0.5000,0.5000 All drawing and Spacing for snapping in the current viewport
(Stored: In Drawing) modifying commands
R12 – 2005 - DDRMODES

SOLIDCHECK 1 Environment Controls whether or not solid checking is

(Stored: Not Saved) turned on or off for the current AutoCAD
R2000 – 2005 session.
0 - Solid verification is turned Off
1 - Solid verification is turned On

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
SORTENTS 96 DDSELECT Entity display sort order.
(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Off
R12 – 2005 1 - Object selection
2 - Object snap
4 - Redraws
8 - Mslide slide creation
16 - Regens
32 - Plotting
64 - PostScript output

SPACESWITCH 1 Environment Controls whether or not the user is allowed to

(Stored: Not Saved) double click on a Viewport in a layout and
R2000i – 2005 enter Model Space.
0 - Disables the double clicking on a Viewport
and doesn’t allow the user to enter Model
Space
1 - Allows the user to double click on a
Viewport and enter Model Space

SPLFRAME 0 Display - EDGE Display for Mesh and Polylines

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Off
R12 – 2005 1 - On

SPLINESEGS 8 SPLINE Number of segments to be generated with each

(Stored: In Drawing) Spline patch
R12 – 2005

SPLINETYPE 6 PEDIT Type of Spline generated with PEDIT

(Stored: In Drawing) command.
R12 – 2005 5 - Quadratic B-Spline
6 - Cubic B-Spline

SSFOUND “” SHEETSET Holds the Sheet Set path and name that is
(Stored: Not Saved) associated with the drawing file if it is found.
R2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
SSLOCATE 1 SHEETSET Controls whether or not AutoCAD will go
(Stored: User Settings) through and attempt to locate a drawing sheet
R2005 set for the drawing that is being opened.
0 - Don’t 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 1 SHEETSET Controls whether or not AutoCAD will display

(Stored: User Settings) the Sheet Set Manager when a drawing is
R2005 opened that is associated with a Sheet Set.
0 - Sheet Set Manager is not opened
automatically
1 - Sheet Set Manager is automatically opened

SSMSTATE 0 SHEETSET Holds the display state of the Sheet Set

(Stored: Not Saved) SHEETSETHIDE Manager.
R2005 0 - Sheet Set Manager is not active
1 - Sheet Set Manager is active

STANDARDSVIOLATIO 2 STANDARDS Controls the behavior of the Standards

N
(Stored: In Registry) CHECKSTANDARDS violation notification system.
R2004 – 2005 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 doesn’t
meet standards

STARTUP 0 NEW Controls the display of the Create New

(Stored: In Registry) Drawing dialog box.
R2004 – 2005 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.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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STARTUPTODAY 1 TODAY Controls whether or not the Today window is
(Stored: In Registry) NEW,OPEN used or the Traditional startup dialog box.
(Obsolete – R2004 & up) 0 - Displays Traditional startup dialog box
R2000i - 2002 1 - Displays Today window

SURFTAB1 6 SURTAB Number of faces generated about a given path

(Stored: In Drawing) with Rulesurf or Tabsurf commands.
R12 – 2005

SURFTAB2 6 SURTAB Density of mesh in the N direction with

(Stored: In Drawing) Revsurf and Edgesurf commands.
R12 – 2005

SURFTYPE 6 PEDIT Type of surface-fitting performed by PEDIT

(Stored: In Drawing) Smooth.
R12 – 2005 5 - Quadratic B-spline surface
6 - Cubic B-spline surface
8 - Bezier surface

SURFU 6 3D/Draw - PEDIT Density of surfaces in the M direction

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

SURFV 6 3D/Draw - PEDIT Density of surfaces in the N direction

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

SYSCODEPAGE "ANSI_1252 " Environment System code page, indicated in the acad.xmf
(Stored: Not Saved) file.
(Read-only)
R12 - 2005

TABMODE 0 Environment Tablet mode

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Off
R12 – 2005 1 - On

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
TARGET 0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 DDVIEW Location of the target in the current viewport
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

TBCUSTOMIZE 1 Environment Controls whether the user is allowed to

(Stored: In Registry) customize toolbars.
R2005 0 - Customization for Toolbars and
Accelerator Keys is disabled through the
UI.
1 - Toolbars and Accelerator Keys can be
customized

TDCREATE 2451506.27970671 Drawing Time and date drawing was created

(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 - R2005

TDINDWG 0.00162616 Drawing Total time drawing was open for after creation
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

TDUCREATE 2452138.13046875 Drawing Time and date that the drawing was created
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R2002 – 2005

TDUPDATE 2451506.27970671 Drawing Time and date drawing was last saved or
(Stored: In Drawing) updated
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

TDUSRTIMER 0.00162616 Drawing User-elapsed timer

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

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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TDUUPDATE 2451506.27970671 Drawing Stores the time and date of the last update\save
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R2000 – 2005

TEMPPREFIX "C:\Documents and Environment - Directory used to store temporary files

(Stored: Not Saved) Settings\...\Temp\" PREFERENCES
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

TEXTEVAL 0 TEXT and DTEXT Determines how characters are evaluated when
(Stored: Not Saved) sent trough script files of AutoLISP.
R12 – 2005 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 1 Display Controls the filling of TrueType fonts while

(Stored: In Registry) plotting.
R13 – 2005 0 - Text as outlines
1 - Text as filled images

TEXTQLTY 50 Environment TrueType font resolutions for plotting

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - Minimum
R13 - 2005 100 - Maximum

TEXTSIZE 0.2000 TEXT and DTEXT Default height for newly created Text objects.
(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

TEXTSTYLE "STANDARD" TEXT and DTEXT Current Text Style

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

THICKNESS 0.0000 All drawing Current object thickness

(Stored: In Drawing) commands except 3D
R12 – 2005 commands

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
TILEMODE 1 MSPACE Viewport mode.
(Stored: In Drawing) PSPACE 0 - Paper space On
R12 – 2005 1 - Paper space Off

TOOLTIPS 1 Environment - Display tooltips for toolbars

(Stored: In Registry) TOOLBAR 0 - Off
R13 – 2005 1 - On

TPSTATE 0 TOOLPALETTES Holds the display state of the Tool Palettes.

(Stored: Not Saved) TOOLPALETTESCLOSE 0 - Tool Palettes Window is not active
(Read-only) 1 - Tool Palettes Window is active
R2004 – 2005

TRACEWID 0.0500 TRACE Default trace width

(Stored: In Drawing)
R12 – 2005

TRACKPATH 0 POLAR SNAP Controls the display of Polar and Object Snap
(Stored: In Registry) OBJECT SNAP Tracking paths.
R2000 – 2005 TRACKING 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 1 Environment Controls whether or not the notification icons

(Stored: In Registry) can be displayed in the status bar area.
R2004 – 2005 0 - Icons do not appear in the tray
1 - Icons are allowed to be displayed in the
tray

TRAYNOTIFY 1 Environment Controls whether or not notification balloons

(Stored: In Registry) are displayed for the running services in the
R2004 – 2005 status bar tray.
0 - No notification balloons are displayed
1 - Notification balloons are displayed

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

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TRAYTIMEOUT 5 Environment Controls the time interval that notification
(Stored: In Registry) balloons are displayed. Valid range of values
R2004 – 2005 is 0 to 10.

TREEDEPTH 3020 Environment Maximum number times the index can be

(Stored: In Drawing) divided into branches.
R13 – 2005 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.

TREEMAX 10000000 Environment Limits memory consumption during drawing

(Stored: In Registry) regeneration.
R13 – 2005

TRIMMODE 1 CHAMFER Trims selected edges for the Chamfer or Fillet

(Stored: In Registry) FILLET commands.
R13 – 2005 0 - Selected edges are left intact
1 - Selected edges should be trimmed to the
endpoints of chamfer lines and fillet arcs

TSPACEFAC 1.0000 MTEXT Specifies the line spacing of multi line text
(Stored: Not Saved) distance measured as a factor of text height.
R2000 – 2005

TSPACETYPE 1 MTEXT Specifies the type of line spacing used for multi
(Stored: In Registry) line text.
R2000 – 2005 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.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
TSTACKALIGN 1 MTEXT Specifies the vertical alignment of text that is
(Stored: In Drawing) stacked.
R2000 – 2005 0 - Aligned from the bottom
1 - Aligned from the center
2 - Aligned from the top

TSTACKSIZE 70 MTEXT Specifies the percentage at which the stacked

(Stored: In Drawing) text fraction height is relative to the selected
R2000 – 2005 text's current height.

UCSAXISANG 90 UCS Contains the angle when rotating the UCS

(Stored: In Registry) UCSMAN around the X, Y, or Z axis options of the UCS
R2000 – 2005 command.

UCSBASE "WORLD" UCS Contains the name of the UCS that defines the
(Stored: In Drawing) UCSMAN origin and orientation of orthographic UCS
R2000 - 2005 settings.

UCSFOLLOW 0 Display Plan view is generated whenever your drawing

(Stored: In Drawing) changes UCS.
R12 - 2005 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 1 Display UCS icon display

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Off
R12 – 2005 1 - On
2 - Origin, On and floating
3 - On and displayed at the Origin

UCSNAME "" Display Name of the currently activated coordinate

(Stored: In Drawing) system of the current space.
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

UCSORG 0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 Display Origin of the current coordinate system

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

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
UCSORTHO 1 Display Specifies whether or not when changing a view
(Stored: In Registry) that the UCS setting is restored or not.
R2000 – 2005 0 - UCS setting doesn't change when a
orthographic view is restored
1 - UCS settings are restored when a
orthographic view is restored

UCSVIEW 1 Display Controls whether or not the current UCS is

(Stored: In Registry) saved with a named view.
R2000 – 2005 0 - UCS settings are not saved with Named
View
1 - UCS settings are saved when creating a
Named View

UCSVP 1 Display Controls whether or not the UCS in active

(Stored: In Drawing) viewports remains fixed or changes to reflect
R2000 – 2005 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 1.0000,0.0000,0.0000 Display X direction of the current coordinate system

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

UCSYDIR 0.0000,1.0000,0.0000 Display Y direction of the current coordinate system

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

UNDOCTL 1 Drawing Undo state

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - UNDO is off
(Read-only) 1 - UNDO is on
R12 – 2005 2 - Only one undo is allowed
4 - Auto option is on
8 - A group is currently active

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
UNDOMARKS 0 Drawing Total number of marks current in the Undo
(Stored: Not Saved) control.
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

UNDOONDISK 1 Environment Used to control if the UNDO file is kept on the

(Stored: In Drawing) hard drive or in RAM.
(Obsolete – R14 & up) 0 - Undo file is kept in RAM
R13 1 - Undo file is kept on the hard drive

UNITMODE 0 Environment Units display.

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Displayed as previously set
R12 – 2005 1 - Displayed in input format

UPDATETHUMBNAIL 15 Drawing Controls whether thumbnails will be created

(Stored: In Drawing) for Sheet Views, Model Views or Sheets.
R2005
Thumbnails to update:
0- Thumbnails are not updated
1- Sheet View thumbnails are updated
2- Model View thumbnails are updated
4- 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 0 Drawing Total of five variables that can used to store

(Stored: In Drawing) and recall values from of the Integer type.
R12 – 2005

USERR1-5 0.0000 Drawing Total of five variables that can used to store
(Stored: In Drawing) and recall values from of the Real type.
R12 – 2005

USERS1-5 "" Drawing Total of five variables that can used to store
(Stored: Not Saved) and recall values from of the String type.
R12 – 2005

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
VIEWCTR 8.4677,4.5000,0.0000 Display Center of the current viewport
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

VIEWDIR 0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 Display View direction in the current viewport

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

VIEWMODE 0 Display View mode

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Turned off
(Read-only) 1 - Perspective view active
R12 – 2005 2 - Front clip on
4 - Back clip on
8 - UCS Follow on
16 - Front clip not at eye

VIEWSIZE 9.0000 Display Height current view in the viewport

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

VIEWTWIST 0.0000 DVIEW View twist angle for the current viewport
(Stored: In Drawing)
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

VISRETAIN 1 XREF Controls visibility of layers in Xref files

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Xref definitions in the current drawing take
R12 – 2005 precedence
1 - Current drawing definitions take
precedence over the Xref

VPMAXIMIZEDSTATE 0 VPMAX Holds the state of the whether the Viewport is

(Stored: Not Saved) maximized or not.
R2005 0 - Viewport is not maximized
1 - Viewport is maximized

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
VSMAX 50.8065,27.0000,0.000 Display Upper right corner of the current Viewport's
(Stored: In Drawing) 0 virtual screen.
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

VSMIN -33.8710,- Display Lower left corner of the current Viewport’s

(Stored: In Drawing) 18.0000,0.0000 virtual screen.
(Read-only)
R12 – 2005

WHIPARC 0 Display Specifies how circles and arcs are displayed.

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Circles and arcs are not displayed smooth
R2000 – 2005 on the screen, but rather as a series of
vectors.
1 - Circles and arcs are displayed smooth on
the screen as true circles and arcs.

WHIPTHREAD 3 Display Specifies how AutoCAD will use additional

(Stored: In Registry) processors on the machine. This system
R2000i – 2005 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 0 (or Off) EXPORT Controls how the background of a WMF file or
(Stored: Not Saved) Copy Clip is created and displayed in other
R2000 – 2005 applications.
0 - Background is created as transparent
1 - Background is the same color as AutoCAD
background.

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
WMFFOREGND 0 (or Off) EXPORT Controls how the foreground color assignment
(Stored: Not Saved) to AutoCAD objects of a WMF file or Copy
R2000i – 2005 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 1 Display World Coordinate System matches w/ UCS.

(Stored: Not Saved) 0 - UCS doesn't match WCS
(Read-only) 1 - UCS matches WCS
R12 – 2005

WORLDVIEW 1 DVIEW and UCS changes to the WCS during DVIEW or

(Stored: In Drawing) VPOINT VPOINT commands.
R12 – 2005 0 - UCS is used
1 - WCS is used

WRITESTAT 1 Drawing Determines the state in which a drawing is

(Stored: Not Saved) opened. (For R12 & R13 use DWGWRITE)
(Read-only) 0 - Read only
R14 – 2005 1 - Read and write

XCLIPFRAME 0 XREF Visibility of Xref clipping boundaries

(Stored: In Drawing) 0 - Boundary is not visible
R14 – 2005 1 - Boundary is visible

XEDIT 1 REFEDIT Specifies whether or not the current drawing

(Stored: In Drawing) can be edited in-place (REFEDIT) when being
R2000 – 2005 externally referenced by another drawing.
0 - Drawing can't be edited in-place
1 - Drawing can be edited in-place

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
XFADECTL 50 REFEDIT Specifies how much the surroundings of the
(Stored: In Registry) block or drawing that is being edited in-place is
R2000 – 2005 faded out.
0 - Minimum percentage of fade
99 - Maximum percentage of fade

XLOADCTL 1 XREF Controls Xref demand loading on or off.

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Demand load is off
R14 – 2005 1 - Demand load is off, but reference file is
kept
2 - Demand load is on

XLOADPATH "" Environment - XREF Path for storing temporary copies of demand-
(Stored: In Registry) load Xrefs.
R14 – 2005

XREFCTL 0 Environment - XREF AutoCAD writes external reference log.

(Stored: In Registry) 0 - Xref logs are not created
R12 - 2005 1 - Xref logs are created

XREFNOTIFY 2 Environment - XREF Controls the notifications for the Xrefs that are
(Stored: In Registry) referenced to the open file.
R2004 – 2005 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 0 Environment - XREF Controls the reference type for when attaching
(Stored: In Registry) an external reference.
R2005 0 - Attachment
1 - Overlay

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Variable Default Value Command(s) Description

affected
ZOOMFACTOR 60 Display - The factor in which is used to zoom in the
(Stored: In Registry) Intellimouse support AutoCAD drawing when rolling the mouse
R2000 - 2005 forward\backwards. Valid range is from 3 to
100 percent.

As you can see the Systems Variables with inside of AutoCAD have changed somewhat over the last
several releases and with the addition of new commands into AutoCAD there is a guarantee that we will
see more Systems Variables in the future. The table also provides a good reference to the System
Variables that will most likely be there in the future and the ones that could be removed also. The
System Variables are exciting to look at to see how AutoCAD has changed, and they have provided a lot
of people to change things quickly in the AutoCAD environment through the use of macros and scripts.

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_LINFO .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
_PKSER.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
_SERVER........................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
*_TOOLPALETTEPATH.................................................................................................................................................................. 2
_VERNUM......................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
ACADLSPASDOC ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2
ACADPREFIX ................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
ACADVER......................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
ACIS15............................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
ACISOUTVER................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
ADCSTATE ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
AFLAGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
ANGBASE ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
ANGDIR ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
APBOX .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
APERTURE ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
AREA ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
ASSISTSTATE .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
ATTDIA ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
ATTMODE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
ATTREQ ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
AUDITCTL ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
AUNITS ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
AUPREC ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
AUTOSNAP....................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
AUXSTAT ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
AXISMODE ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
AXISUNIT ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
BACKGROUNDPLOT ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6
BACKZ .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
BINDTYPE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
BLIPMODE........................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
CDATE............................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
CECOLOR ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
CELTSCALE ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
CELTYPE .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
CELWEIGHT..................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
CHAMFERA...................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
CHAMFERB ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
CHAMFERC ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
CHAMFERD...................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
CHAMMODE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
CIRCLERAD ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
CLAYER ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
CLEANSCREENSTATE ................................................................................................................................................................... 9
CMDACTIVE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
CMDDIA............................................................................................................................................................................................ 9

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CMDECHO ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
CMDNAMES ................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
CMLJUST ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 10
CMLSCALE..................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
CMLSTYLE ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
COMPASS ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
COORDS.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
CPLOTSTYLE ................................................................................................................................................................................. 11
CPROFILE ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
CPUTICKS....................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
CTAB ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
CTABLESTYLE .............................................................................................................................................................................. 11
CURRENTPROFILE ....................................................................................................................................................................... 11
CURSORSIZE.................................................................................................................................................................................. 11
CVPORT .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
DATE ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
DBCSTATE ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
DBGLISTALL ................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
DBMOD ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
DCTCUST........................................................................................................................................................................................ 12
DCTMAIN ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
DEFLPLSTYLE ............................................................................................................................................................................... 12
DEFPLSTYLE ................................................................................................................................................................................. 13
DELOBJ ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
DEMANDLOAD ............................................................................................................................................................................. 13
DIASTAT ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
DIMADEC ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
DIMALT .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
DIMALTD........................................................................................................................................................................................ 14
DIMATLF ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 14
DIMALTRND .................................................................................................................................................................................. 14
DIMALTTD ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
DIMALTTZ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
DIMALTU........................................................................................................................................................................................ 14
DIMALTZ ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 15
DIMAPOST...................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
DIMASO .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
DIMASSOC ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
DIMASZ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
DIMATFIT ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
DIMAUNIT...................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
DIMAZIN......................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
DIMBLK .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
DIMBLK1 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
DIMBLK2 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
DIMCEN .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
DIMCLRD........................................................................................................................................................................................ 18
DIMCLRE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 18

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DIMCLRT ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 18
DIMDEC .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
DIMDLE .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
DIMDLI............................................................................................................................................................................................ 18
DIMDSEP ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 18
DIMEXE .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
DIMEXO .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
DIMFIT ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 19
DIMFRAC........................................................................................................................................................................................ 19
DIMGAP .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
DIMJUST ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
DIMLDRBLK .................................................................................................................................................................................. 20
DIMLFAC ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 20
DIMLIM........................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
DIMLUNIT ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
DIMLWD ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
DIMLWE.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
DIMPOST ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 21
DIMRND.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
DIMSAH .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
DIMSCALE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
DIMSD1 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 22
DIMSD2 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 22
DIMSE1............................................................................................................................................................................................ 22
DIMSE2............................................................................................................................................................................................ 22
DIMSHO .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 22
DIMSOXD ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 22
DIMSTYLE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 22
DIMTAD .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 22
DIMTDEC........................................................................................................................................................................................ 23
DIMTFAC ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 23
DIMTIH............................................................................................................................................................................................ 23
DIMTIX............................................................................................................................................................................................ 23
DIMTM ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 23
DIMTMOVE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 23
DIMTOFL ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 23
DIMTOH .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
DIMTOL .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
DIMTOLJ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
DIMTP.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 24
DIMTSZ ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
DIMTVP........................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
DIMTXSTY ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
DIMTXT .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
DIMTZIN ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 25
DIMUNIT......................................................................................................................................................................................... 25
DIMUPT........................................................................................................................................................................................... 25
DIMZIN............................................................................................................................................................................................ 26

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DISPSILH ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 26
DISTANCE ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 26
DONUTID........................................................................................................................................................................................ 26
DONUTOD ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 26
DRAGMODE ................................................................................................................................................................................... 27
DRAGP1 .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 27
DRAGP2 .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 27
DRAWORDERCTL......................................................................................................................................................................... 27
DWGCHECK................................................................................................................................................................................... 28
DWGCODEPAGE ........................................................................................................................................................................... 28
DWGNAME..................................................................................................................................................................................... 28
DWGPREFIX................................................................................................................................................................................... 28
DWGTITLED .................................................................................................................................................................................. 29
DWGWRITE.................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
EDGEMODE.................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
ELEVATION ................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
ENTMODS....................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
ENTEXTS ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 29
ERRNO ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 29
EXPERT........................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
EXPLMODE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
EXTMAX......................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
EXTMIN .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
EXTNAMES .................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
FACETRATIO ................................................................................................................................................................................. 31
FACETRES ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
FFLIMIT .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
FIELDDISPLAY.............................................................................................................................................................................. 31
FIELDEVAL .................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
FILEDIA .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
FILLETRAD .................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
FILLMODE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
FLATLAND..................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
FORCE_PAGING ............................................................................................................................................................................ 33
FONTALT........................................................................................................................................................................................ 34
FONTMAP....................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
FRONTZ .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
FULLOPEN...................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
GFANG ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 34
GFCLR1 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
GFCLR2 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
GFCLRLUM .................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
GFCLRSTATE................................................................................................................................................................................. 35
GFNAME ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 35
GFSHIFT.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 35
GRIDMODE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 35
GRIDUNIT....................................................................................................................................................................................... 35
GRIPBLOCK ................................................................................................................................................................................... 35

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GRIPCOLOR ................................................................................................................................................................................... 35
GRIPHOT......................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
GRIPHOVER ................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
GRIPOBJLIMIT............................................................................................................................................................................... 36
GRIPS............................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
GRIPSIZE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 36
GRIPTIPS......................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
HALOGAP....................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
HANDLES ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
HIDEPRECISION............................................................................................................................................................................ 37
HIDETEXT ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
HIGHLIGHT .................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
HPANG ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 37
HPASSOC ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 37
HPBOUND....................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
HPDOUBLE..................................................................................................................................................................................... 38
HPDRAWORDER ........................................................................................................................................................................... 38
HPGAPTOL ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 38
HPNAME ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 38
HPSCALE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 38
HPSPACE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 38
HYPERLINKBASE ......................................................................................................................................................................... 39
IMAGEHLT ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 39
INDEXCTL ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 39
INETLOCATION............................................................................................................................................................................. 39
INSBASE ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 39
INSNAME........................................................................................................................................................................................ 39
INSUNITS........................................................................................................................................................................................ 39
INSUNITS........................................................................................................................................................................................ 40
INSUNITSDEFSOURCE................................................................................................................................................................. 40
INSUNITSDEFTARGET................................................................................................................................................................. 40
INTERSECTIONCOLOR................................................................................................................................................................ 40
INTERSECTIONDISPLAY............................................................................................................................................................. 40
ISAVEBAK...................................................................................................................................................................................... 40
ISAVEPERCENT............................................................................................................................................................................. 41
ISOLINES ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 41
LASTANGLE .................................................................................................................................................................................. 41
LASTPOINT .................................................................................................................................................................................... 41
LASTPROMPT ................................................................................................................................................................................ 41
LAYOUTREGENCTL..................................................................................................................................................................... 41
LAZYLOAD .................................................................................................................................................................................... 41
LENSLENGTH ................................................................................................................................................................................ 42
LIMCHECK ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 42
LIMMAX ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 42
LIMMIN........................................................................................................................................................................................... 42
LISPINIT.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 42
LOCALE .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 42
LOCALROOTPREFIX .................................................................................................................................................................... 42

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LOGFILEMODE.............................................................................................................................................................................. 42
LOGFILENAME.............................................................................................................................................................................. 43
LOGFILEPATH ............................................................................................................................................................................... 43
LOGINNAME.................................................................................................................................................................................. 43
LONGFNAME ................................................................................................................................................................................. 43
LTSCALE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 43
LUNITS............................................................................................................................................................................................ 43
LUPREC........................................................................................................................................................................................... 43
LWDEFAULT.................................................................................................................................................................................. 44
LWDISPLAY................................................................................................................................................................................... 44
LWUNITS ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 44
MACROTRACE .............................................................................................................................................................................. 44
MAXACTVP.................................................................................................................................................................................... 44
MAXOBJMEM ................................................................................................................................................................................ 44
MAXSORT ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 45
MBUTTONPAN .............................................................................................................................................................................. 45
MEASUREINIT ............................................................................................................................................................................... 45
MEASUREMENT............................................................................................................................................................................ 45
MENUCTL....................................................................................................................................................................................... 45
MENUECHO ................................................................................................................................................................................... 45
MENUNAME................................................................................................................................................................................... 45
MILLISECS ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 46
MIRRTEXT...................................................................................................................................................................................... 46
MODEMACRO................................................................................................................................................................................ 46
MSOLESCALE................................................................................................................................................................................ 46
MTEXTED....................................................................................................................................................................................... 46
MTEXTFIXED................................................................................................................................................................................. 46
MTJIGSTRING................................................................................................................................................................................ 47
MYDOCUMENTSPREFIX ............................................................................................................................................................. 47
NFWSTATE..................................................................................................................................................................................... 47
NODENAME ................................................................................................................................................................................... 47
NOMUTT ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 47
OBSCUREDCOLOR ....................................................................................................................................................................... 47
OBSCUREDLTYPE ........................................................................................................................................................................ 48
OFFSETDIST................................................................................................................................................................................... 48
OFFSETGAPTYPE.......................................................................................................................................................................... 48
OLEFRAME..................................................................................................................................................................................... 48
OLEHIDE......................................................................................................................................................................................... 49
OLEQUALITY ................................................................................................................................................................................ 49
OLESTARTUP................................................................................................................................................................................. 49
OPMSTATE ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 49
ORTHOMODE................................................................................................................................................................................. 50
OSMODE ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 50
OSNAPCOORD ............................................................................................................................................................................... 50
OSNAPHATCH ............................................................................................................................................................................... 50
OSNAPNODELEGACY.................................................................................................................................................................. 51
PALETTEOPAQUE......................................................................................................................................................................... 51
PAPERUPDATE.............................................................................................................................................................................. 51

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PDMODE ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 51
PDSIZE ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 52
PEDITACCEPT ............................................................................................................................................................................... 52
PELLIPSE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 52
PERIMETER.................................................................................................................................................................................... 52
PFACEVMAX ................................................................................................................................................................................. 52
PHANDLE ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 52
PICKADD ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 52
PICKAUTO...................................................................................................................................................................................... 53
PICKBOX ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 53
PICKDRAG...................................................................................................................................................................................... 53
PICKFIRST ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 53
PICKSTYLE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 53
PLATFORM..................................................................................................................................................................................... 53
PLINEGEN ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 54
PLINETYPE..................................................................................................................................................................................... 54
PLINEWID....................................................................................................................................................................................... 54
PLOTID............................................................................................................................................................................................ 54
PLOTOFFSET.................................................................................................................................................................................. 54
PLOTROTMODE ............................................................................................................................................................................ 55
PLOTTER ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 55
PLQUIET ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 55
POLARADDANG............................................................................................................................................................................ 55
POLARANG .................................................................................................................................................................................... 55
POLARDIST .................................................................................................................................................................................... 55
POLARMODE ................................................................................................................................................................................. 56
POLYSIDES .................................................................................................................................................................................... 56
POPUPS ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 56
PRODUCT ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 56
PROGRAM ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 56
PROJECTNAME ............................................................................................................................................................................. 57
PROJMODE ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 57
PROXYGRAPHICS......................................................................................................................................................................... 57
PROXYNOTICE.............................................................................................................................................................................. 57
PROXYSHOW................................................................................................................................................................................. 57
PROXYWEBSEARCH.................................................................................................................................................................... 57
PSLTSCALE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 58
PSPROLOG...................................................................................................................................................................................... 58
PSQUALITY.................................................................................................................................................................................... 58
PSTYLEMODE................................................................................................................................................................................ 58
PSTYLEPOLICY ............................................................................................................................................................................. 58
PSVPSCALE.................................................................................................................................................................................... 58
PUCSBASE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 59
QAFLAGS........................................................................................................................................................................................ 59
QAUCSLOCK.................................................................................................................................................................................. 59
QTEXTMODE ................................................................................................................................................................................. 59
QUEUEDREGENMAX ................................................................................................................................................................... 60
RASTERDPI .................................................................................................................................................................................... 60

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RASTERPREVIEW ......................................................................................................................................................................... 60
REFEDITNAME.............................................................................................................................................................................. 60
REGENMODE ................................................................................................................................................................................. 60
RE-INIT............................................................................................................................................................................................ 60
RIASPECT ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 60
RIBACKG ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 61
RIEDGE ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 61
RIGAMUT ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 61
RIGREY ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 61
RITHRESH ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 61
REMEMBERFOLDERS .................................................................................................................................................................. 62
REPORTERROR ............................................................................................................................................................................. 62
ROAMABLEROOTPREFIX ........................................................................................................................................................... 62
RTDISPLAY .................................................................................................................................................................................... 62
SAVEFILE ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 62
SAVEFILEPATH............................................................................................................................................................................. 63
SAVENAME.................................................................................................................................................................................... 63
SAVEIMAGES ................................................................................................................................................................................ 63
SAVETIME...................................................................................................................................................................................... 63
SCREENBOXES.............................................................................................................................................................................. 63
SCREENMODE ............................................................................................................................................................................... 63
SCREENSIZE .................................................................................................................................................................................. 64
SDI.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 64
SHADEDGE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 64
SHADEDIF ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 64
SHORTCUTMENU ......................................................................................................................................................................... 65
SHPNAME ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 65
SIGWARN ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 65
SKETCHINC.................................................................................................................................................................................... 65
SKPOLY .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 65
SNAPANG ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 65
SNAPBASE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 66
SNAPISOPAIR ................................................................................................................................................................................ 66
SNAPMODE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 66
SNAPSTYL...................................................................................................................................................................................... 66
SNAPTYPE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 66
SNAPUNIT ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 66
SOLIDCHECK................................................................................................................................................................................. 66
SORTENTS...................................................................................................................................................................................... 67
SPACESWITCH .............................................................................................................................................................................. 67
SPLFRAME ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 67
SPLINESEGS................................................................................................................................................................................... 67
SPLINETYPE .................................................................................................................................................................................. 67
SSFOUND........................................................................................................................................................................................ 67
SSLOCATE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 68
SSMAUTOOPEN............................................................................................................................................................................. 68
SSMSTATE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 68
STANDARDSVIOLATION ............................................................................................................................................................ 68

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STARTUP ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 68
STARTUPTODAY .......................................................................................................................................................................... 69
SURFTAB1 ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 69
SURFTAB2 ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 69
SURFTYPE ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 69
SURFU ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 69
SURFV ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 69
SYSCODEPAGE ............................................................................................................................................................................. 69
TABMODE ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 69
TARGET .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 70
TBCUSTOMIZE .............................................................................................................................................................................. 70
TDCREATE ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 70
TDINDWG....................................................................................................................................................................................... 70
TDUCREATE .................................................................................................................................................................................. 70
TDUPDATE ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 70
TDUSRTIMER................................................................................................................................................................................. 70
TDUUPDATE .................................................................................................................................................................................. 71
TEMPPREFIX.................................................................................................................................................................................. 71
TEXTEVAL ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 71
TEXTFILL ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 71
TEXTQLTY ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 71
TEXTSIZE ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 71
TEXTSTYLE ................................................................................................................................................................................... 71
THICKNESS .................................................................................................................................................................................... 71
TILEMODE...................................................................................................................................................................................... 72
TOOLTIPS ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 72
TPSTATE ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 72
TRACEWID..................................................................................................................................................................................... 72
TRACKPATH .................................................................................................................................................................................. 72
TRAYICONS ................................................................................................................................................................................... 72
TRAYNOTIFY ................................................................................................................................................................................ 72
TRAYTIMEOUT ............................................................................................................................................................................. 73
TREEDEPTH ................................................................................................................................................................................... 73
TREEMAX....................................................................................................................................................................................... 73
TRIMMODE .................................................................................................................................................................................... 73
TSPACEFAC ................................................................................................................................................................................... 73
TSPACETYPE ................................................................................................................................................................................. 73
TSTACKALIGN .............................................................................................................................................................................. 74
TSTACKSIZE .................................................................................................................................................................................. 74
UCSAXISANG ................................................................................................................................................................................ 74
UCSBASE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 74
UCSFOLLOW.................................................................................................................................................................................. 74
UCSICON ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 74
UCSNAME ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 74
UCSORG.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 74
UCSORTHO .................................................................................................................................................................................... 75
UCSVIEW........................................................................................................................................................................................ 75
UCSVP ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 75

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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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