AutoCAD 2009 System Variables Overview

AutoCAD Productivity AutoCAD System Variables Appendix C - 1
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System Variables R12 R2009

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

Note: Read-only variables are denoted by the name of the system variable being in italic font.

Variable Name Default Value Related Commands Data Type Description
*_TOOLPALETTEPATH

Stored In: Registry
Category: Environment
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
C:\Documents and Settings\<user
name>\Application
Data\Autodesk\<program>\<release>
\<language>\support\ToolPalette
TOOLPALETTES, OPTIONS String Contains the paths for the Tool Palettes. So it
allows you to change different Tool Palettes based
on different ones being stored in different
directories. A semi-colon (;) separates each path.


_LINFO

Comments: Undocumented
Stored In: Not Saved
Release(s): R12 - 2009
String Hardware lock serial number. Getvar must be used
in order to get the value of this system variable.
_PKSER

400-XXXXXXXX String Returns the serial number assigned to AutoCAD.
_SERVER

0 Integer Returns the status of the network license server of
AutoCAD.
_VERNUM

C.56.0 (UNICODE) String Returns a build number for AutoCAD. It allows you
to tell what service pack is installed for AutoCAD.
R13_c4a - R.1.72c
R14.0 - S.0.79
R14.01 - P.0.31
R2000 - T.1.07
R2000i - U.0.90
R2002 - K.0.30 (SP1 - K.0.44)
R2004 - V.0.73 (SP1a - V.1.22)
R2005 - N.30.101 (SP1 - N.84.0)
R2006 - Z.54.10
R2007 - A.54.0 (UNICODE)
R2008 - B.51.0 (UNICODE)
R2009 - C.56.0 (UNICODE)


3DCONVERSIONMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: 3D Modeling
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 CONVERTOLDMATERIALS,
CONVERTOLDLIGHTS,
MATERIALS, LIGHTS
Integer Controls whether legacy materials and lights
created with AutoCAD 2006 and earlier are
automatically converted or not when found in a
drawing that is being opened.
0 - Materials and lights are not converted
when a drawing is opened, and no prompt
is displayed
1 - Materials and lights are automatically
converted upon the opening of a drawing
2 - You are prompted to convert old materials
and lights when found in the drawing that
is being opened
3DDWFPREC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
2 3DDWF, 3DDWFPUBLISH
and PUBLISH
Integer Controls the precision used when publishing to a
3D DWF.
3DDWFPREC
Value
Precision
1 - 1
2 - 0.5
3 - 0.2
4 - 0.1
5 - 0.01
6 - 0.001
3DSELECTIONMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Object Selection
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 All Modifying Commands Integer Controls how object selection behaves with
overlapping objects in a model that has a 3D visual
style assigned to it.
0 - Legacy object selection is used
1 - Line-of-sight object selection is used


ACADLSPASDOC

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS Integer Controls how AutoCAD loads the Acad.lsp file.
0 - Loads into every drawing opened
1 - Loads into the first drawing opened only
ACADPREFIX

Stored In: Registry
name>\Application
\<language>\support;C:\Program
Files\<program>\support;C:\Program
Files\<program>\fonts;C:\Program
Files\<program>\help;C:\Program
Files\<program>\express;C:\Program
Files\<program>\support\color;C:\Pro
gram Files\<program>\drv;
PREFERENCES, OPTIONS, -
INSERT
String List of support paths used by AutoCAD. These
paths may vary from the actual working paths for
AutoCAD.
ACADVER

17.2s (LMS Tech) String Version number of AutoCAD
13_c4a - R13
14.0 - R14
14.01 - R14
15.0 - R2000
15.05 - R2000i
15.06 - R2002
16.0 - R2004
16.1s - R2005
16.2s (LMS Tech) - R2006
17.0s (LMS Tech) - R2007
17.1s (LMS Tech) - R2008
17.2s (LMS Tech) - R2009


ACIS15

Release(s): R13
0 Integer Format in which AutoCAD processes all solid
objects.
0 - ACIS data is saved in ACIS 1.6 format and
can only be read by c4 or later versions.
1 - ACIS data is saved in both ACIS 1.5 and
ACIS 1.6 format in two different places.
ACISOUTVER

70 ACISOUT, EXPORT Integer ACIS version of SAT files created using the
ACISOUT command. Valid values are 15 - 18, 20,
21, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70.
ACTPATH

Stored In: Registry
Category: Action Recorder
Release(s): R2009
ACTRECORD String Specifies the additional paths that the Action
Recorder looks in for action macros that can be
played back.
ACTRECORDSTATE

Release(s): R2009
0 ACTRECORD Integer Indicates the current state of the Action Recorder.
0 - Idle; no action macro is currently being
recorded or played back
1 - Active; an action macro is currently being
recorded
2 - Active; an action macro is currently being
played back
ACTRECPATH

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
name>\Application
\<language>\support\Actions
ACTRECORD, ACTSTOP String Specifies the path that the Action Recorder uses
when saving newly recorded action macros.


ACTUI

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
6 ACTRECORD Bitcode Controls the display of the Action Recorder when
playing back or recording action macros.
0 - The display of the Action Recorder is not
changed during the playback or recording
an action macro
1 - Action Recorder is expanded during the
recording of an action macro
2 - Action Recorder is expanded during the
playback of an action macro
4 - After recording an action macro, you are
prompted to give the action macro a name
and description
ADCSTATE

Release(s): R2000i - 2009
0 ADCENTER, ADCCLOSE Integer Holds the display state of the AutoCAD Design
Center.
0 - Not displayed in the environment
1 - Currently displayed in the environment
AFLAGS

Category: Drafting
16 DDATTDEF, ATTDEF, -
ATTDEF
Integer Default values for attribute creation modes.
(sum of the following)
0 - No mode present
1 - Invisible
2 - Constant
4 - Verify
8 - Preset

AutoCAD 2006 and later
16 - Lock position

32 - Multiple lines


ANGBASE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 DDUNITS, UNITS, -UNITS Real Direction of Angle 0 (relative to the current UCS).
ANGDIR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDUNITS, UNITS, -UNITS Integer Specifies the positive direction for angles (relative
to the current UCS).
0 - Counterclockwise
1 - Clockwise
ANNOALLVISIBLE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 DIM*, TEXT, ATTDEF,
BLOCK, MTEXT, MLEADER
Integer Controls the display of annotative objects that are
not associated with the current annotation scale.
0 - Annotative objects for the current scale
are the only ones displayed
1 - Annotative objects for all scales are
displayed


ANNOAUTOSCALE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
-4 DIM*, TEXT, ATTDEF,
Integer Determines if and when annotative scales are
automatically assigned to annotative objects.
1 - The current annotative scale is added to
all annotative objects that are not on
layers in which are off, frozen, locked, or
frozen in a viewport
-1 - Turned off; when enabled it will assume
the behavior of 1
layers in which are off, frozen, or frozen in
a viewport
the behavior of 2
layers in which are locked
the behavior of 3
all annotative objects no matter what the
current state of the layers are in the
drawing
the behavior of 4
ANNOTATIVEDWG

Comments: System variable
becomes read-only when the
drawing contains annotative
objects.
Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 INSERT Integer Specifies if a drawing behaves as an annotative
block when it is inserted into another drawing.
0 - Non-annotative
1 - Annotative


APBOX

Stored In: Registry
0 DDOSNAP, OSNAP,
OPTIONS
Integer Toggles the display of the AutoSnap aperture box.
0 - Off
1 - On
APERTURE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
10 DDOSNAP, OSNAP,
OPTIONS
Integer Aperture size for object snap (pixels). Valid range
is from 1 to 50.
1 - Minimum
50 - Maximum
APSTATE

Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 BAUTHORPALETTE,
BAUTHORPALETTECLOSE
Integer Indicates the display status of the Block Authoring
palette.
0 - Block Authoring palette is not active
1 - Block Authoring palette is active
AREA

Category: Inquiry
0.0000 AREA, DBLIST, LIST Real Last calculated area.
ASSISTSTATE

Release(s): R2005 - 2007
0 ASSIT, ASSISTCLOSE Integer Indicates the display status of the AutoCAD Info
Palette.
0 - Info Palette is not active
1 - Info Palette is active
ATTDIA

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
0 DDATTE Integer Specifies whether the INSERT command uses the
command line or a dialog box for attribute entry.
0 - Command line prompts
1 - Dialog Box


ATTIPE

Comments: Use the limited
in-place editor when
considering compatibility with
releases prior to AutoCAD
2008.
Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 ATTDEF Integer Controls which version of the in-place editor is
used to create multiline attributes.
0 - Displays the limited in-place editor which
includes basic formatting options only
1 - Displays the full in-place editor with all the
possible formatting options
ATTMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1 ATTDISP Integer Specifies the display of Attributes on the screen.
0 - Off, All attributes are turned off regardless
of flags set
1 - Normal, All attributes use the flags they
were originally defined with
2 - On, All attributes are turned on regardless
of flags set
ATTMULTI

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 ATTDEF Integer Controls the creation of multiline attributes.
0 - Multiline attributes cannot be created
1 - Multiline attributes can be created
ATTREQ

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
1 INSERT, -INSERT Integer Determines if the default values of an Attribute are
used when inserting a block.
0 - Default Values
1 - Prompt for values based on the current
setting of ATTDIA


AUDITCTL

Stored In: Registry
Category: Integrity
0 AUDIT Integer Determines if a Log file is generated with each
Audit performed. The log file created has a file
extension of ADT.
0 - No Audit log is written
1 - Audit log is written
AUNITS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDUNITS, UNITS, -UNITS Integer Angular unit mode.
0 - Decimal Degrees
1 - Degrees/Minutes/Seconds
2 - Grads
3 - Radians
4 - Surveyor's Units
AUPREC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDUNITS, UNITS, -UNITS Integer Number of decimal places displayed for angles,
but has no affect on the decimal places displayed
for a dimension object. Valid range is from 0 to 8.
AUTODWFPUBLISH

Stored In: Registry
Category: Publishing
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 PUBLISH Bitcode Controls if a DWF file is automatically created
when a drawing is saved or closed.
0 - Automatic publishing of DWF files is
disabled
1 - Automatic publishing of DWF files is
enabled


AUTOSNAP

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
63 DDOSNAP, OSNAP,
OPTIONS
Integer Controls display preferences of AutoSnap.
0 - Off
1 - Turns on the AutoSnap marker
2 - Turns on the AutoSnap tooltips
4 - Turns on the AutoSnap magnet

Added to R2000 and later
8 - Turns on Polar Tracking
16 - Turns on Object Snap tracking
32 - Turns on tooltips for Polar and Object
Snap Tracking
AUXSTAT

Stored In: Registry
0 Integer AUX device status. Valid range of values is -32768
to 32767.
AXISMODE

0 Integer Legacy storage holder for the AXIS command
located in AutoCAD prior to R12. 0 and 1 are the
only valid values.
AXISUNIT

0.0000,0.0000 2D Point Legacy storage holder for the AXIS command
located in AutoCAD prior to R12.


BACKGROUNDPLOT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
2 PLOT, PUBLISH Integer Allows Plotting and Publishing of drawings to
happen as a background process allowing you to
continue to work without waiting for your plots.
Commands -Plot, Plot, -Publish and Publish are
performed in the foreground when used in scripts.
0 - Use foreground plotting with Plot and
Publish which is the legacy behavior of
AutoCAD 2004 and prior.
1 - Use background plotting with the Plot
command and not Publish.
2 - Use background plotting with the Publish
command and not Plot.
3 - Use background plotting for both Plot and
Publish commands.
BACKZ

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0.0000 DVIEW, CAMERA, 3DCLIP Real Offset for the Back clipping plane from the target
plane of the current viewport.
BACTIONCOLOR

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
7 BEDIT String Controls the text color for actions in the Block
Editor. Valid values include 1 - 255, BYLAYER, or
BYBLOCK, plus RGB:000,000,000 when setting a
True color. True colors can be established by
using a number of 1 - 255 between each comma.
BDEPENDENCYHIGHLIGHT

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 BEDIT Integer Controls whether dependent objects related to a
parameter, action or grip are highlighted in the
Block Editor. When dependency highlighting is
enabled, objects are displayed with a halo effect.
0 - Dependent objects are not highlighted
1 - Dependent objects are highlighted


BGRIPOBJCOLOR

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
141 BEDIT String Controls the color for grips in the Block Editor.
Valid values include 1 - 255, BYLAYER, or
BGRIPOBJSIZE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
8 BEDIT, REGEN, REGENALL Integer Controls the display size for custom grips in the
Block Editor. Valid range is 1 - 255.
BINDTYPE

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 XREF, -XREF, REFEDIT,
EXTERNALREFERENCES
Integer Controls how Xref names are handled in a drawing
when the commands XREF or REFEDIT are used.
0 - Traditional ("xref|walls" = xref$0$walls")
1 - Insert-type ("xref|walls" = "walls")
BLIPMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
0 DDRMODES, BLIPMODE Integer Toggles the display of blip marks.
0 - Off
1 - On
BLOCKEDITLOCK

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 BEDIT Integer Controls whether the Block Editor is opened when
a block not containing attributes is double-clicked.
The double-click behavior can be changed using
the Customize User Interface (CUI) editor.
0 - Block Editor can be used to edit blocks
1 - Block Editor can't be used to edit blocks
BLOCKEDITOR

Stored In: Not-Saved
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 BEDIT Integer Reflects if the Block Editor environment is currently
open.
0 - Block Editor is not open
1 - Block Editor is open


BPARAMETERCOLOR

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
7 BEDIT String Controls the color for parameters in the Block
Editor. Valid values include 1 - 255, BYLAYER, or
BPARAMETERFONT

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
Simplex.shx BEDIT String Controls which font is used for parameters and
actions in the Block Editor. Either True Type fonts
or SHX fonts can be used. When specifying a True
Type font it is optional if you want to use the TTF
extension or not, but if you are specifying a SHX
font file the file extension must be provided. When
specifying an Asian Big Font use a SHX font with a
comma followed by the Big Font file,
(Simplex.shx,Bigfont.shx).
BPARAMETERSIZE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
12 BEDIT Integer Controls the display size of parameter text and
features in the Block Editor relative to the screen
size. Valid range is 1 - 255.
BTMARKDISPLAY

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 Grip editing Integer Controls whether value set markers are displayed
for dynamic block references.
0 - Value set markers are not displayed
1 - Value set markers are displayed
BVMODE

Stored In: Not-saved
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 BEDIT Integer Controls the visibility of objects that are marked as
invisible for the current visibility state in the Block
Editor.
0 - Hidden objects are not visible
1 - Hidden objects are visible on screen, but
dimmed


CALCINPUT

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 Text fields in palettes and
dialog boxes with in AutoCAD.
Integer Controls the evaluation of mathematical
expressions and global constants when they are
used in a text field of a palette or dialog box.
0 - Expressions are not evaluated
1 - Expressions are evaluated, but only after
the key combination ALT+ENTER is
pressed.

To evaluate an expression in AutoCAD 2006 you
had to press the END key.
CAMERADISPLAY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 CAMERA Integer Toggles the display of camera glyphs in the
drawing. When the CAMERA command is started,
the value is automatically toggled.
0 - Camera glyphs are not displayed in the
drawing
1 - Camera glyphs are displayed in the
drawing
CAMERAHEIGHT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0.0000 CAMERA Real Specifies the default height that should be used
when a new camera is created.
CANNOSCALE

Comments: The value must
match one of the scales in the
drawing.
Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1:1 DIM*, TEXT, ATTDEF,
String Specifies the current annotation scale for current
space (Model or layout)


CANNOSCALEVALUE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1.0000 DIM*, TEXT, ATTDEF,
Real Current annotation scale which is calculated by
taking the paper units and dividing that by the
drawing units of the scale. For example, 1/4" = 1'-
0" would be 0.25 x 12 for a value of 0.020833.
CAPTURETHUMBNAILS

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2009
1 OPTIONS, NAVSWHEEL Integer Controls when thumbnails for the Rewind tool are
captured.
0 - No preview thumbnails are captured
outside of the SteeringWheels
1 - Preview thumbnails are generated for
empty frames when the Rewind tool is
used
2 - Preview thumbnails are captured with
each view change
CBARDISPLAYMODE

Stored In:
Release(s): R2009
4095 Integer Unknown


CDATE

Category: Time/Date
Varies TIME Real Current system date and time in decimal format.

First four numbers on the left side of the decimal is
the year, the next two is the month and the last two
to the left of the decimal is the date. Then the first
two to the right of the decimal is the hour, the two
are the minutes, the next two are the seconds and
the final two are the hundredths of a second.

For example, 20060404.21035005

Date
Year: 2006
Month: 04
Day: 04

Time
Hour: 21 (9 P.M.)
Minute: 03
Second: 50
Hundredth of a Second: 05
CDYNDISPLAYMODE

Stored In:
Release(s): R2009
0 Integer Unknown
CECOLOR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
BYLAYER DDEMODES, DDCOLOR,
COLOR, -COLOR, STATUS,
PROPERTIES, All Drawing
Commands
String Current object color. Prior to R2004 the value was
returned from 1 - 255, BYLAYER, or BYBLOCK in
value. R2004 and later reports the value back as 1
- 255, BYLAYER, BYBLOCK, plus in the format
RGB:000,000,000 when a True Color is specified.


CELTSCALE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1.0000 DDLTYPE, DDEMODES,
DDLMODES (R14),
LINETYPE, STATUS,
Commands
Real Current object Linetype scale factor used when
new objects are created.
CELTYPE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
ByLayer DDLTYPE, DDEMODES,
DDLMODES (R14),
LINETYPE, STATUS,
Commands
String Current Linetype used when new objects are
created.
CELWEIGHT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
-1 LWEIGHT, OPTIONS Integer Current object line weight.
-1 - Sets Lineweight to "ByLayer"
-2 - Sets Lineweight to "ByBlock"
-3 - Sets Lineweight to "Default"

Line weight is controlled by the system
variable LWDEFAULT Other values
include 0, 5, 9, 13, 15, 18, 20, 25, 30, 35,
40, 50, 53, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 106, 120,
140, 158, 200 and 211. These values are
expressed in hundredths of a millimeter.
CENTERMT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Modifying
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 Grip editing a Mtext object Integer Controls how using grips to stretch the bounding
box of Mtext that is justified centered horizontally,
doesn't have any affect when using the ruler in the
in-place text editor.
0 - Moving a corner grip results in the center
grip to move in the same direction as the
grip that is being dragged.
1 - Moving a corner grip results in the center
grip remaining fixed in its current location
and the grips on the opposite side move
away from the center grip.


CHAMFERA

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Editing
0.0000 CHAMFER Real First Chamfer distance used when CHAMMODE is
set to a value of 0.
CHAMFERB

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Editing
0.0000 CHAMFER Real Second Chamfer distance used when
CHAMMODE is set to a value of 0.
CHAMFERC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Editing
0.0000 CHAMFER Real Chamfer distance used when CHAMMODE is set
to a value of 1.
CHAMFERD

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Editing
0.0000 CHAMFER Real Chamfer angle used when CHAMMODE is set to a
value of 1.
CHAMMODE

Category: Editing
0 CHAMFER Integer Chamfer creation mode.
0 - Chamfer created by based on two
distances
1 - Chamfer created by a distance and an
angle
CIPMODE

Stored In:
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 Integer Current state of the Customer Involvement
Program (CIP).
0 - Not participating in the CIP
1 - Participating in CIP (anonymously or with
contact information)


CIRCLERAD

Category: Drafting
0.0000 CIRCLE Real Specifies the last radius used to create a circle.
CLAYER

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDLMODES, LAYER, -
LAYER, STATUS,
Commands
String Current Layer used when new objects are created.
CLEANSCREENSTATE

Release(s): R2004 - 2009
0 CLEANSCREENON,
CLEANSCREENOFF
Integer Indicates the current state of Clean Screen.
0 - AutoCAD is in normal state displaying the
Title bar, Toolbars and Palettes
1 - AutoCAD is in Clean Screen state and the
Title bar, Toolbars and Palettes are not
displayed
CLISTATE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 COMMANDLINE,
COMMANDLINEHIDE
Integer Indicates the display status of the Command Line.
0 - Command Line is hidden
1 - Command Line is displayed
CMATERIAL

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
BYLAYER MATERIALS and Create
Commands
String Current Material used when new objects are
created.


CMDACTIVE

0 All Commands and Most
Operations
Integer Current type of command active.
0 - Nothing is happening
1 - Regular command
2 - Transparent command
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 ObjectARX
64 - ObjectARX command is currently active
CMDDIA

Stored In: Registry
1 QLEADER, Dialog Box
Commands
Integer Command dialog box interface style and constrols
if the In-Place Text Editor is used for the
QLEADER command.
0 - Command line
1 - Dialog box or In-Place Text Editor is used
for the QLEADER command
CMDECHO

1 All Commands Integer Controls command prompt echoing from AutoLISP
programs.
0 - Off
1 - On
CMDINPUTHISTORYMAX

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
20 Integer Controls the maximum number of previous input
values that are stored for a prompt in a command.
Valid range is 1 - 255.


CMDNAMES

SETVAR All Commands String Current active command.
CMLEADERSTYLE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
Standard MLEADER, MLEADERSTYLE String Current multileader style that will be used as the
default style when a new multileader object is
created.
CMLJUST

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 MLINE Integer Specifies the justification to be used to create
multilines.
0 - Top
1 - Middle
2 - Bottom
CMLSCALE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1.0000 (20.000 for metric) MLINE Real Specifies the overall scale for multilines.
CMLSTYLE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Standard MLINE, MLSTYLE String Current Multiline style used when a multiline is
created.
CNAMEFORMAT

Stored In:
Release(s): R2009
0 Integer Unknown


COMPASS

Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 3DORBIT Integer Toggles the display of the 3D compass in the
current viewport.
0 - Turns the 3D compass off
1 - Turns the 3D compass on
CONSTRAINSOLVEMODE

Stored In:
Release(s): R2009
3 Integer Unknown
CONSTRAINTRELAX

Stored In:
Release(s): R2009
0 Integer Unknown
COORDS

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
1 Integer Specifies the current coordinate display in the
status bar area.
0 - Update on points picked only
1 - Continuous update
2 - Display Polar coordinates during a request
COPYMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 COPY Integer Specifies if the COPY command performs multiple
copies or not by default.
0 - COPY command runs in multiple copy
mode
1 - COPY command runs in single copy mode


CPLOTSTYLE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
ByColor POPERTIES, All Drawing
Commands
String Current plot style used when new objects are
created and when named plot styles are used.
Values are based on the plot style loaded.
CPROFILE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
Vanilla PREFERENCES, OPTIONS String Current user profile.
CPUTICKS

Varies Real Number of CPU clock ticks and is from the
Pentium counter register. It's a very high frequency
timer.
CROSSINGAREACOLOR

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
100 Select object: prompts and
implied selection
Integer Controls the fill color used during a crossing
window or polygon selection. Valid values include
1 - 255.
CSHADOW

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 LIGHT, DISTANTLIGHT,
POINTLIGHT, SPOTLIGHT,
SUNPROPERTIES, RENDER
Integer Specifies the shadow display mode for a 3D
object. In order for shadows to be displayed, they
must be enabled for the current visual style that is
applied to the viewport.
0 - Casts and receives shadows
1 - Casts shadows
2 - Receives shadows
3 - Ignore shadows


CTAB

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
Model String Current layout tab in use in the drawing.
CTABLESTYLE
Command Alias(es): CT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
Standard TABLE, TABLESTYLE,
PROPERTIES, STATUS
String Current Table Style name that is used when a new
Table object is created.
CURRENTPROFILE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R14
Vanilla PREFERENCES String Current user profile.
CURSORSIZE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
5 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS Integer Current crosshairs size. Valid range is 1 to 100.
CVPORT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
2 VPORTS, MVIEW Integer Displays the ID number for the current viewport in
the drawing.
DASHBOARDSTATE

Release(s): R2007 - 2008
0 DASHBOARD Integer Indicates the display status of the Dashboard
palette.
0 - Dashboard palette is not active
1 - Dashboard palette is active


DATALINKNOTIFY

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
2 DATALINK Integer Controls the notification messages for data links in
a drawing.
0 - Notifications are disabled.
1 - Notifications are enabled without balloon
messages. The data link icon is displayed
in the application status tray when a link is
present in the drawing.
2 - Notifications are fully enabled. The data
link icon is displayed in the application
status tray when a link is present in the
drawing and a balloon message is
displayed when a data link needs to be
updated.
DATE

Category: Time/Date
2451225.90308183 TIME Real Current date and time in Julian format.
DBCSTATE

0 DBCONNECT, DBCLOSE Integer Indicates the display status of the dbConnect
Manager palette.
0 - dbConnect Manager palette is not active
1 - dbConnect Manager palette is active
DBGLISTALL

0 Integer Controls the type of Debug listing... possibly
indicating a "Debug List All". 0 and 1 are the only
valid values.


DBLCLKEDIT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Modifying
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 CUI and Modify Commands Integer Toggles the use of double-clicking in the drawing
area. Double click actions can be modified using
the Customize User Interface (CUI) editor to
change the double click behavior in the drawing
area.
0 - Disabled
1 - Enabled
DBMOD

0 Most Commands Integer Status of modifications to the current drawing.
1 - Object database modified
2 - Symbol Table
4 - Database variable modified
8 - Window modified
16 - View modified

Added for R2005
32 - Field modified
DCTCUST

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
name>\Application
\<language>\support\sample.cus
SPELL String Path and name to the location of the custom
dictionary.


DCTMAIN

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
<language> SPELL String Displays the main dictionary for spell checking.
Keywo
rd
Language name
enu American English
ena Australian English
ens British English (ise)
enz British English (ize)
ca Catalan
cs Czech
da Danish
nl Dutch (primary)
nls Dutch (secondary)
fi Finnish
fr French (unaccented capitals)
fra French (accented capitals)
de German (Scharfes s)
ded German (Dopple s)
it Italian
no Norwegian (Bokmal)
non Norwegian (Nynorsk)
pt Portuguese (Iberian)
ptb Portuguese (Brazilian)
ru Russian (infrequent io)
rui Russian (frequent io)
es Spanish (unaccented capitals)
esa Spanish (accented capitals)
sv Swedish


DEFAULTLIGHTING

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 LIGHT, DISTANTLIGHT,
Integer Toggles default lighting for the current viewport.
Default lighting must be disabled in order to use
the sun system, point lights, distant lights and
spotlights.
0 - Default lighting is disabled
1 - Default lighting is enabled
DEFAULTLIGHTINGTYPE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 RENDER Integer Specifies the type of default lighting that should be
used when user-defined lights are not being used
in the drawing.
0 - Single default light, behavior of AutoCAD
2006 and prior
1 - Two default lights
DEFLPLSTYLE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
ByColor LAYER, -LAYER String Controls the default plot style associated with new
layers.
DEFPLSTYLE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
ByColor All Drawing Commands String Controls the default plot style associated with new
objects.


DELOBJ

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
1 EXTRUDE, SWEEP,
REVOLVE, LOFT, Modify
Commands
Integer Determines whether source objects are deleted.

AutoCAD 2007
0 - All objects that are used to define complex
objects are retained
1 - Profile curves and cross sections are
deleted when the commands EXTRUDE,
SWEEP, REVOLVE and LOFT are used.
2 - All defining geometry that is used is
deleted, and includes paths and guide
curves used with the SWEEP and LOFT
commands.
-1 - Prompt to verify the deletion of profile
curves and cross sections when the
commands EXTRUDE, SWEEP,
REVOLVE and LOFT are used.
-2 - Prompt to verify the deletion of profile
curves, cross sections, and paths and
guide curves when the commands
SWEEP and LOFT are used.

AutoCAD 2006 and prior
0 - Objects deleted
1 - Objects retained
DEMANDLOAD

Stored In: Registry
3 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS Integer Determines how AutoCAD interacts with custom
objects created by a third-party application.
0 - Demand loading is off
1 - Application is loaded when you open a
drawing containing the custom objects
2 - Application is loaded when you invoke one
of the applications commands
3 - Application is loaded when a drawing
contain custom objects is opened and/or
one of the applications commands are
invoked


DGNFRAME

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 DGNATTACH Integer Controls if the frame for DGN underlays is
displayed and plotted.
0 - Frame is not displayed or plotted
1 - Frame is displayed and plotted
2 - Frame is displayed and not plotted
DGNIMPORTMAX

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2009
10000000 DGNIMPORT Real Controls the number of elements that are imported
from a DGN file into the current drawing.
0 - No import limit on elements
> 0 - Sets the limit for elements being imported
DGNMAPPINGPATH

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2009
name>\Application
\<language>\Support
DGNMAPPING String Specifies the location of the dgnsetups.ini file
which is used to store DGN mapping setups.
DGNOSNAP

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 DGNATTACH Integer Toggles the use of object snaps on geometry that
is part of a DGN underlay.
0 - Off
1 - On
DIASTAT

Category: Drafting
0 DD* Commands Integer State of how the user exited a dialog box.
0 - Cancel
1 - OK


DIMADEC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer The number of places of precision displayed for
angular dimension text.
-1 - Uses the value of the system variable
DIMDEC
0 - No decimal places used
8 - Maximum decimal places
DIMALT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Toggles the display of alternate units of
dimensions.
0 - Off
1 - On
DIMALTD

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
2 DDIM Integer The number of decimal places used for alternate
units of dimensions. Valid range is 0 to 8.
DIMALTF

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
25.4000 DDIM Real Scale factor used to calculate the alternate units of
dimensions.
DIMALTRND

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0.0000 DDIM Real The value for how alternate units of dimensions
should be rounded off.
DIMALTTD

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
2 DDIM Integer The number of decimal places for tolerance values
in the alternate units of dimensions.


DIMALTTZ

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Suppression of zeros in tolerance values for
alternate units of dimensions.
0 - Suppresses zero feet and zero inches
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

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
2 DDIM Integer Specifies what alternative units are used for
dimensions except angular dimensions.
1 - Scientific
2 - Decimal
3 - Engineering
4 - Architectural (stacked)
5 - Fractional (stacked)
6 - Architectural
7 - Fractional
8 - Microsoft Windows Desktop


DIMALTZ

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Suppression of zeros for alternate units of
dimension values.
0 - Suppresses zero feet and inches
1 - Includes zero feet and precisely zero
inches
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
DIMANNO

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 DIM* Integer Specifies whether the current dimension style is
annotative or not.
0 - Non-annotative
1 - Annotative
DIMAPOST

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
DDIM String Specifies a prefix or suffix (or both) for the
alternate dimension measurement for dimensions
except angular dimensions.
DIMARCSYM

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 DDIM Integer Suppression of zeros for alternate units of
dimension values.
0 - Arc length symbol is placed before the
dimension text
1 - Arc length symbol is placed above the
dimension text
2 - The display of the arc length symbol is
suppressed


DIMASO

Comments: Obsolete - R2004
and later
Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1 DDIM Integer Controls the associativity of dimension objects.
0 - Off
1 - On
DIMASSOC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2002 - 2009
2 DDIM Integer Controls the associativity of dimension objects.
0 - Creates dimensions that are exploded. No
association between any objects that are
created is maintained.
1 - Non-associative dimension objects are
created. All objects that are created
interact as if they where one complete
object, if the definition point is moved.
2 - Associative dimension objects are created.
All objects that are created interact as if
they where one complete object, more
than one definition point is created based
on geometric points.
DIMASZ

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.1800 DDIM Real Size of dimension line and leader line arrowheads.


DIMATFIT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
3 DDIM Integer Determines how dimension arrows and text are
arranged when insufficient space is available to
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

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Units used for angular dimensions.
0 - Decimal degrees
1 - Degrees/minutes/seconds
2 - Gradians
3 - Radians
4 - Surveyor's units (not documented since
R2000)
DIMAZIN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 DDIM Integer Controls the suppression of zeros for angular
dimensions.
0 - Leading and trailing zeros are displayed
1 - Leading zeros are suppressed
2 - Trailing zeros are suppressed
3 - Leading and trailing zeros suppressed


DIMBLK

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
DDIM String Name of the arrowhead that is used for dimension
and leader lines, standard and user-defined
arrowheads. Below is the listing of the standard
arrowhead values. To display no arrowhead enter
"." for the value.
"" - 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

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
DDIM String Name of the arrowhead that is used for the first
end of a dimension line. The value specified can
be either a standard or user-defined arrowheads.
Below is the listing of the standard arrowhead
values. To display no arrowhead enter "." for the
value.
"" - Closed Filled
"_DOT" - Dot
"_OPEN" - Open
"_OPEN30" - 30 deg
"_CLOSED" - Closed
"_NONE" - None


DIMBLK2

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
DDIM String Name of the arrowhead that is used for the second
end of a dimension line. The value specified can
be either a standard or user-defined arrowheads.
Below is the listing of the standard arrowhead
values. To display no arrowhead enter "." for the
value.
"" - Closed Filled
"_DOT" - Dot
"_OPEN" - Open
"_OPEN30" - 30 deg
"_CLOSED" - Closed
"_NONE" - None
DIMCEN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0900 DDIM Real Controls the placement of center marks or lines for
circles and arcs.
0 - No center marks or lines are drawn
<0 - Center lines are drawn
>0 - Center marks are drawn


DIMCLRD

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies the color used for dimension lines,
leaders and arrowheads in dimensions.
DIMCLRE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies the color for extension lines in
dimensions.
DIMCLRT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies the color for text in dimensions.
DIMDEC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
4 DDIM Integer The number of decimal places used for dimension
text. Valid range is 0 to 8.
DIMDLE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 DDIM Real Specifies the distance that the dimension line will
be extended past the extension line.
DIMDLI

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.3800 DDIM Real Specifies the distance between baseline
dimensions. The number specified is used to
ensure that dimensions don't overlap.


DIMDSEP

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
"." DDIM String Allows you to change the decimal separator when
DIMUNITS is set to 2.
DIMEXE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.1800 DDIM Real Controls the distance that an extension line will be
created beyond the dimension line.
DIMEXO

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0625 DDIM Real Controls the distance between the dimension
extension line to origin point.


DIMFIT

Comments: Obsolete
Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
3 DDIM Integer Controls how arrowheads and dimension text
should fit inside or outside of a dimension. This
system variable was replaced with 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

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 DDIM Integer Controls the output of how fractions are displayed
when DIMLUNITS is set to 4 (Architectural) or 5
(Fractional).
0 - Horizontal
1 - Diagonal
2 - Not stacked
DIMFXL

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1.0000 DDIM Real Specifies the overall length of the extension line
starting at the dimensions origin and going towards
the dimension line.


DIMFXLON

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 DDIM Integer Toggles the use of fixed length extension lines for
dimensions.
0 - Off
1 - On
DIMGAP

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0900 DDIM Real Controls the gap around the dimension text to
create a break in the dimension line when
necessary.
DIMJOGANG

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
45 (90 for metric) DDIM Real Specifies the angle that should be used for the
traverse segment of the dimension line of a jogged
radius dimension.
DIMJUST

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Controls the placement of dimension text
horizontally along the dimension line.
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

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
DDIM String Controls the type of arrowhead that is used for
leaders. To display no arrowhead enter "." for the
value.
"" - Closed Filled
"_DOT" - Dot
"_OPEN" - Open
"_OPEN30" - 30 deg
"_CLOSED" - Closed
"_NONE" - None
DIMLFAC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1.0000 DDIM Real Globally scales all linear distances by a scale
factor to adjust the size of the dimensions in a
viewport.


DIMLIM

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Controls the appearance of whether dimension text
is two numbers representing an upper and lower
limits.
0 - Normal text
1 - Limits text
DIMLTEX1

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
DDIM String Specifies the linetype that should be used for the
first extension line.
DIMLTEX2

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
second extension line.
DIMLTYPE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
dimension line.
DIMLUNIT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
2 DDIM Integer Controls the type of units used for all dimensions
except angular dimensions.
1 - Scientific
2 - Decimal
3 - Engineering
4 - Architectural (always displayed as being
stacked)
5 - Fractional (always displayed as being
stacked)


DIMLWD

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
-2 DDIM Integer Controls the lineweight that is used for dimension
lines.
-3 - Default (value defined by the
LWDEFAULT system variable)

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

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
-2 DDIM Integer Controls the line weight that is used for extension
lines.
-3 - Default (value defined by the
LWDEFAULT system variable)

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

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
DDIM String Specifies the user-defined prefix and/or suffix for
the dimension text.
DIMRND

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 DDIM Real The value for how dimension text should be
rounded off.


DIMSAH

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies which arrowheads are used for
dimension lines.
0 - DIMBLK1 is used
1 - DIMBLK1 and DIMBLK2 is used
DIMSCALE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1.0000 DDIM Real Specifies the global scale factor in which all
dimensions should be drawn by.
0.0 - Dimension scale is calculated based on
scaling between the current model space
viewport and paper space.
>0 - Scale factor to be used to calculate the
correct display size of dimensions in the
drawing.
DIMSD1

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Suppress the first dimension line.
0 - Off
1 - On
DIMSD2

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Suppress the second dimension line.
0 - Off
1 - On
DIMSE1

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Suppress the first extension line
0 - Off
1 - On


DIMSE2

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Suppress the second extension line.
0 - Off
1 - On
DIMSHO

and later
Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1 DDIM Integer Determines if associative dimension text are
updated during dragging.
0 - Update Off
1 - Update while dragging
DIMSOXD

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Suppress arrowheads when there is not enough
available space in between the extension lines.
0 - Off
1 - On
DIMSTYLE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Standard DDIM String Current dimension style.
DIMTAD

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies the vertical positioning of text in
relationship to the dimension line.
0 - Centered inside dimension
1 - Above dimension line
2 - On the side of the dimension line opposite
of the dimension points
3 - Conform to JIS standards


DIMTDEC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
4 DDIM Integer Decimal places used for the primary dimension
tolerance text.
DIMTFAC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1.0000 DDIM Real Scale factor for dimension tolerance text height
and fraction height.
DIMTFILL

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 DDIM Integer Specifies the background (fill) property for
dimension text.
0 - No background or fill is used
1 - Background or fill color matches the
background of the drawing window
2 - Background or fill color matches the value
specified by the system variable
DIMTFILLCLR
DIMTFILLCLR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 DDIM Integer Specifies the color the background or fill for
dimension text when the system variable
DIMTFILL is set to a value of 2. Allowable values
are ACI colors 1 - 255, 0 for ByBlock and 256 for
ByLayer.
DIMTIH

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1 DDIM Integer Specifies if dimension text is inside the extension
lines it is aligned or horizontal with the dimension
line.
0 - Align with dimension
1 - Horizontal to the dimension


DIMTIX

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies if dimension text is forced inside the
extension lines even if it will not fit.
0 - Don't force text inside the extension lines
1 - Always force text inside the extension
lines
DIMTM

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 DDIM Real Specifies the lower (or negative) tolerance value
used if DIMLIM or DIMTOL are active.
DIMTMOVE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 DDIM Integer Specifies how dimension text can move.
0 - Dimension line moves with dimension text
1 - Creates a leader when dimension text is
moved
2 - No leader is created and text can be freely
moved
DIMTOFL

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies if the dimension line is drawn between
the two extension lines when the text is placed
outside of the extension lines.
0 - No line will be drawn
1 - Line is always drawn
DIMTOH

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1 DDIM Integer Specifies if the dimension text outside of the
extension lines is always drawn aligned or
horizontal to the dimension line.
0 - Align with dimension line
1 - Horizontal to the dimension line


DIMTOL

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies if dimension text will include the use of
the tolerance values (DIMTM and DIMTP).
0 - No tolerance is added
1 - Tolerance is added
DIMTOLJ

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1 DDIM Integer Specifies the justification of vertical tolerance text,
relative to the primary dimension text.
0 - Bottom
1 - Middle
2 - Top
DIMTP

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 DDIM Real Specifies the upper (or positive) tolerance value
used if DIMLIM or DIMTOL are active.
DIMTSZ

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 DDIM Real Determines the size at which a tick mark will be
drawn at.
0 - Arrowheads are drawn
>0 - Specifies the side at which oblique strokes
should be drawn at instead of arrowheads
DIMTVP

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 DDIM Real The percentage of the dimension text height that
will be used to create an offset for vertical
dimension text. DIMTVP is ignored unless
DIMTAD is set to a value of 0.
DIMTXSTY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Standard DDIM String Specifies the text style to be used for dimension
text.


DIMTXT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.1800 DDIM Real Specifies the default text height that should be
used a fixed height is not defined by the text style.
DIMTZIN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies if zeros will be suppressed or not in
tolerance values.
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
1.25)
12 - Suppresses both leading and trailing
zeroes (for example, 0.2500 becomes .25)


DIMUNIT

and later
Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
2 DDIM Integer Format of units for primary dimension text
(DIMALT must be set to 1). This system variable
was replaced with DIMLUNIT and DIMFRAC.
1 - Scientific
2 - Decimal
3 - Engineering
4 - Architectural (stacked fractions)
5 - Fractional (stacked fractions)
6 - Architectural (always displayed as being
stacked)
7 - Fractional (always displayed as being
stacked)
DIMUPT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies how text will be placed during the
creation of a dimension.
0 - Text always goes to it's default place
1 - Dimension text moves freely along the
dimension line as you drag the dimension
into place


DIMZIN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDIM Integer Specifies if zeros will be suppressed or not in the
primary unit value. Note: AutoLISP functions (rtos)
and (angtos) are affected by these settings.
inches
3 - Suppresses zero feet and includes zero
inches
4 - Suppresses leading zeroes in decimal
.2500)
8 - Suppresses trailing zeroes in decimal
1.25)
12 - Suppresses both leading and trailing
zeroes (for example, 0.2500 becomes .25)
DISPSILH

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS Integer Toggles the display of silhouette edges for 3D
solids.
0 - Off
1 - On
DISTANCE

Category: Inquiry
0.0000 DIST Real Last distance measured with the Dist command.
DONUTID

Category: Drafting
0.5000 DONUT Real Default inside diameter of a donut.


DONUTOD

Category: Drafting
1.0000 DONUT Real Default outside diameter of a donut.
DRAGMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
2 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS Integer Specifies how objects are dragged.
0 - No Dragging
1 - On request
2 - Automatic
DRAGP1

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
10 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS Integer Specifies the regen-drag input sampling rate.
DRAGP2

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
25 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS Integer Specifies the fast-drag input sampling rate.
DRAGVS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
2D Wireframe VISUALSTYLES String Specifies the visual style that will be used when
creating surfaces and 3D solids.


DRAWORDERCTL

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
3 All Modify Commands Integer Specifies the behavior of Draw Order functionality.
0 - Default display of objects with Draw Order
is disabled or off. All new objects created
or added to the drawing will appear on top
and 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.
DRSTATE

Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 DRAWINGRECOVERY,
DRAWINGRECOVERYHIDE
Integer Indicates the display status of the Drawing
Recovery palette.
0 - Drawing Recovery palette is hidden
1 - Drawing Recovery palette is displayed


DTEXTED

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
2 DTEXT, DDEDIT Integer Specifies whether the In-Place Text Editor or a
dialog box is used to create and edit single-line
text.

0 - In-place Text Editor is used
1 - Text prompt is displayed at the command
line and you are able to pick a point on
screen to specify the location of a new
single-line text object; editing a single-line
text object is done with the Edit Text dialog
box.
2 - In-Place Text Editor is used to create and
edit single-line text objects. When text is
being created, you can specify a location
to create a new single-line text object at.
When text is created, you can use the TAB
or SHIFT+TAB keys to navigate between
text objects that were created during the
current execution of the TEXT command.
The ALT key can be used to select
multiple text objects to edit at a time when
editing single-line text.

AutoCAD 2006
0 - In-place Text Editor is used
1 - Edit Text dialog box is used
DWFFRAME

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
2 DWFATTACH Integer Specifies the display of the frames for all DWF
underlays in the current drawing.
0 - Frames are not displayed or plotted
1 - Frames are displayed and is plotted
2 - Frames are displayed, but are not plotgted


DWFOSNAP

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 DWFATTACH and Create
Commands
Integer Toggles the use of object snaps on geometry that
is part of a DWF underlay.
0 - Off
1 - On
DWGCHECK

Stored In: Registry
1 OPEN Integer Specifies how AutoCAD carries out automatic data
integrity checking of drawings as they are being
opened.

AutoCAD R2000 and later
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

AutoCAD R14
0 - Off
1 - On
DWGCODEPAGE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: File System
ANSI_1252 String Value stored is identical to the value of
SYSCODEPAGE.

In AutoCAD 2000 through 2002, the drawing code
page was indicated in the acad.xmx file.

In AutoCAD R14 and prior, the drawing code page
was indicated in the acad.xmf file.


DWGNAME

Drawing1.dwg SAVE, SAVEAS String Name of the current drawing file on disk with its file
extension.
DWGPREFIX

name>\My Documents\
SAVE, SAVEAS String Path on disk to the current drawing.
DWGTITLED

0 SAVE, SAVEAS Integer Indicates if the current drawing has been named.
0 - Unnamed
1 - Named
DWGWRITE

and later
1 OPEN, SAVE, SAVEAS Integer Indicates the state in which a drawing is opened.
(For R14 and up use WRITESTAT)
0 - Read-only
1 - Read and write


DXEVAL

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
12 DATAEXTRACTION Bitcode Controls when the data extraction tables in a
drawing are checked against the current drawing,
and if the table is updated or a notification is
displayed.
0 - Notifications are disabled
1 - On open display a notification balloon
message
1 - On save display a notification balloon
message
4 - On plot display a notification balloon
message
8 - On publish display a notification balloon
message
16 - On eTransmit/archive display a notification
balloon message
32 - On save update the tables
64 - On plot update the tables
128 - On publish update the tables
256 - On eTransmit/archive update the tables
DYNDIGRIP

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
31 DYNMODE, DYNDIVIS,
DSETTINGS
Bitcode Specifies how the Dynamic Input feature provides
feedback when using grip editing. The DYNDIVIS
system variable must be set to the value of 2,
which enables the displaying of dynamic
dimensions.
0 - None
1 - Resulting dimension
2 - Length change dimension
4 - Absolute angle dimension
8 - Angle change dimension
16 - Arc radius dimension


DYNDIVIS

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 DYNMODE, DYNDIGRIP,
DSETTINGS
Integer Specifies how many dynamic dimensions are
displayed when using grip editing. The
DYNDIGRIP system variable controls what
dynamic dimensions are displayed during grip
editing.
0 - Only the first dynamic dimension in the
cycle order
1 - Only the first two dynamic dimensions in
the cycle order
2 - All dynamic dimensions that can be
displayed and are allowed to be displayed
based on the DYNDIGRIP system variable
are displayed
DYNMODE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
3 DYNDIVIS, DYNDIGRIP,
DSETTINGS
Integer Specifies the behavior of the Dynamic Input
feature. The value can be a negative value which
keeps the original value, but toggles the feature off
which is what happens when the DYN button on
the status bar is clicked or the F12 key is pressed.
0 - Off
1 - Only pointer input is enabled
2 - Only dimensional input is enabled
3 - All features are enabled
DYNPICOORDS

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 DYNMODE, DSETTINGS Integer Specifies whether pointer input uses relative or
absolute coordinate formatting.
0 - Relative
1 - Absolute
DYNPIFORMAT

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 DYNMODE, DSETTINGS Integer Specifies whether pointer input uses polar or
Cartesian coordinate formatting for the second or
next point.
0 - Polar
1 - Cartesian


DYNPIVIS

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 DYNMODE, DSETTINGS Integer Specifies if pointer input is displayed.
0 - Only when you type at a prompt for a point
1 - Automatically at a prompt for a point
2 - Always
DYNPROMPT

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 DYNMODE, DSETTINGS Integer Specifies if command prompts are displayed in
Dynamic Input tooltips.
0 - Off
1 - On
DYNTOOLTIPS

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 DYNMODE, DSETTINGS Integer Specifies which tooltips are affected by tooltip
appearance settings.
0 - Only Dynamic Input value fields
1 - All drafting tooltips
EDGEMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
0 TRIM, EXTEND Integer Current edge mode for the TRIM and EXTEND
commands which affects cutting and boundary
edges.
0 - No Extension
1 - Extends cutting or boundary edge
ELEVATION

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 Drawing and Modify
Commands
Real Current elevation relative to current User
Coordinate System (UCS).
ENTERPRISEMENU

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
"." String Holds the current path and file name for the
enterprise CUI file if one has been assigned.


ENTEXTS

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
1 Integer Determines the method of calculation used for the
drawing extents.
0 - Extents are calculated each time the value
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)
ENTMODS

0 Integer Increments with each object added or modified in
the drawing database. Typically the incremented
amount is by two, possibly open and closing of the
undo record.
ERRNO or *ERRNO

0 Used for AutoLISP Integer Reports what type of error occurred within the
AutoLISP program. This value is reset at the
startup of AutoCAD and upon opening a drawing.
These values currently range from 0 - 85 in value.
Look at the Developer Help files for full list of
values and meanings.
ERSTATE

Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 EXTERNALREFERENCES Integer Indicates the display status of the External
References palette.
0 - External References palette is not
displayed
1 - External References palette is displayed


EXPERT

0 Integer Controls the display of certain prompts
0 - Issues prompts normally
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?"
prompts related to Linetypes.
prompts related to UCS Save and Vports
Save commands.
prompts related to DimStyle Save and
DimOverride commands.
EXPLMODE

Category: Editing
1 EXPLODE Integer Controls if the EXPLODE command supports non-
uniformly scaled (NUS) blocks.
0 - Blocks that are NUS can't be exploded
1 - Blocks that are NUS can be exploded
EXTMAX

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
12.0000,9.0000,0.0000 LIMITS 3D Point Upper-right drawing coordinate.
EXTMIN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 LIMITS 3D Point Lower-left drawing coordinate.


EXTNAMES

Stored In: Drawing
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 LAYER, -LAYER, LINETYPE,
-LINETYPE, STYLE, -STYLE,
DDIM, RENAME, GROUP,
UCS, VIEW, TABLESTYLE
Integer Controls how AutoCAD accepts symbol and table
names during input.
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 enforced.
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

Category: Display
0 Integer Controls the faceting aspect ratio for cylindrical
and conic ACIS solids.
0 - Creates an N by 1 mesh
1 - Creates an N by M mesh
FACETRES

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0.5 Real Adjusts smoothness of hidden line, shaded and
rendered objects. 3DDWFPREC is used over
FACETRES when creating a 3D DWF file.
0.01 - Minimum
10.0 - Maximum
FFLIMIT

and later
Stored In: Configuration File
0 Integer Maximum number of fonts loaded into memory
(TrueType and PostScript).
0 - No limit
n - Number of fonts total


FIELDDISPLAY

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
1 FIELD, MTEXT, MTEDIT,
ATTDEF
Integer Controls if a gray fill is displayed in the drawing to
indicate where a field is being used. The gray fill is
not plotted.
0 - Fields don't show with a gray background
1 - Fields do show with a gray background
FIELDEVAL

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
31 FIELD, MTEXT, ATTDEF,
OPEN, SAVE, SAVEAS,
QSAVE, REGEN,
REGENALL, ETRANSMIT,
ARCHIVE, PLOT, PUBLISH
Integer Controls the various different ways that Fields get
updated.
0 - No updating of the Fields happens
1 - Update when the drawing is opened
2 - Update when the drawing is saved
4 - Update before the drawing is plotted or
published
8 - Update when the drawing is to be
packaged up with eTransmit
16 - Update when a regeneration is invoked
FILEDIA

Stored In: Registry
1 NEW, OPEN, SAVE, SAVEAS Integer Controls the displaying of file navigation dialog
boxes.
0 - Command line prompting is used
1 - Dialog box
FILLETRAD

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 FILLET Real Current radius used to create fillets.
FILLMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
1 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS,
SOLID, HATCH, BHATCH, -
HATCH, -BHATCH, PLINE
Integer Specifies the fill mode for hatches, 2D solids and
polylines with width are displayed as being filled.
0 - Off
1 - On


FLATLAND

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 All Drawing and Modify
Commands
Integer Controlled whether or not the drawing had no
elevation in the old 2 D system. It allowed
menus, scripts and LISP apps to run in Pre-R10
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)
FONTALT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
simplex.shx PREFERENCES, OPTIONS String Name of the alternative font that should be used
when a font used in the drawing isn't found.
FONTMAP

Stored In: Registry
name>\Application
\<language>\support\acad.fmp
PREFERENCES, OPTIONS,
MTEXT
String Name of the font mapping file for the Mtext editor.
FORCE_PAGING

0 Long Used originally in R13 to exercise the object pager.
It no longer serves a function after R13. Range of
0 to 4294967295 is valid.
FRONTZ

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0.0000 DVIEW, CAMERA, 3DCLIP Real Offset for the front clipping plane from the target
plane of the current viewport.


FULLOPEN

Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 OPEN, PARTIALOAD,
PARTIALOPEN
Integer Indicates the partially opened state of the current
drawing.
0 - Drawing is partially opened
1 - Drawing is fully opened
FULLPLOTPATH

Stored In: Regsitry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 PLOT, PUBLISH Integer Controls whether the full path of the drawing or just
the drawing name is sent to the plot spooler.
0 - Sends the drawing file name only to the
plot spooler
1 - Sends the full path of the drawing file to
the plot spooler
GEOLATLONGFORMAT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2009
0 GEOGRAPHICLOCATION Integer Controls the format of latitude and longitude values
in the Geographic Location dialog box and on the
status bar.
0 - Decimal degrees (DD)
1 - Degrees minutes seconds (DMS)
GEOMARKETVISIBILITY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2009
1 GEOGRAPHICLOCATION Integer Controls the display of the geographic marker in
the drawing window.
0 - Off
1 - On
GFANG

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
0 HATCH,BHATCH,
GRADIENT, HATCHEDIT
Integer Controls the angle used for the gradient fill. Valid
value range is 0 - 360.
GFCLR1

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
RGB:000,000,256 HATCH,BHATCH,
GRADIENT, HATCHEDIT
String Specifies the color used in a one-color fill or the
first color in a two-color gradient fill. The number is
expressed as a True Color in the format of
RGB:000,000,000.


GFCLR2

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
RGB:255,255,153 HATCH,BHATCH,
GRADIENT, HATCHEDIT
String Specifies the second color in a two-color gradient
fill. The number is expressed as a True Color in
the format of RGB:000,000,000.
GFCLRLUM

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
1.0000 HATCH,BHATCH,
GRADIENT, HATCHEDIT
Real Specifies the color tint (mixture of white) or a
shade (mixture of black) in a one-color fill or
gradient fill.
GFCLRSTATE

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
1 HATCH,BHATCH,
GRADIENT, HATCHEDIT
Integer Specifies the gradient fill mode of one or two color.
0 - Two-Color gradient fill
1 - One-Color gradient fill
GFNAME

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
1 HATCH,BHATCH,
GRADIENT, HATCHEDIT
Integer Specifies the pattern of the gradient fill.
1 - Linear
2 - Cylindrical
3 - Inverted cylindrical
4 - Spherical
5 - Inverted Spherical
6 - Hemispherical
7 - Inverted Hemispherical
8 - Curved
9 - Inverted Curved
GFSHIFT

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
0 HATCH,BHATCH,
GRADIENT, HATCHEDIT
Integer Specifies whether the gradient fill is centered or
shifted up and left.
0 - Centered
1 - Shifted up and left


GRIDDISPLAY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
2 GRID, DSETTINGS Integer Specifies how the grid is displayed and its
behavior.
0 - Grid is restricted to the area defined by the
LIMITS command
1 - Grid is not restricted to the area defined by
the LIMITS command
2 - Adaptive grid is enabled
4 - When adaptive display is enabled and as
you zoom in additional grid lines are
displayed between the major grid lines
8 - Grid plane follows the XY plane of the
dynamic UCS
GRIDMAJOR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
5 GRID, DSETTINGS Integer Controls the number of minor grid lines between
the major grid lines. Grid lines are displayed when
a visual style other than 2D Wireframe is set
current. Valid range is 1 - 100.
GRIDMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0 GRID, DSETTINGS,
DDRMODES
Integer Toggles the display of the grid.
0 - Off
1 - On
GRIDUNIT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0.5000,0.5000 (10,10 for metric) GRID, DSETTINGS,
DDRMODES
2D Point Grid spacing for the current viewport represented
in X,Y format.


GRIPBLOCK

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
0 DDGRIPS, PREFERENCES,
OPTIONS
Integer Controls the display of grips for block insertions.
0 - Grip is displayed at the insertion point of
the block only
1 - Grips are displayed for each object within
the block
GRIPCOLOR

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
OPTIONS
Integer Specifies the color of unselected (cold) grips. Valid
range 1 - 255.
GRIPDYNCOLOR

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
140 OPTIONS Integer Specifies the color for custom grips that are part of
a dynamic block. Valid range 1 - 255.
GRIPHOT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
OPTIONS
Integer Specifies the color of a selected (hot) grips. Valid
range 1 - 255.
GRIPHOVER

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
OPTIONS
Integer Specifies the color a grip changes to when the
mouse pauses (hovers) over a grip. Valid range 1 -
255.


GRIPOBJLIMIT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
OPTIONS
Integer The number of objects that is used to control the
display of grips. If more objects are selected than
what the value is set to, grips will not be displayed.
Valid range is 0 - 32,767.

When a value of 0 is specified, grips are never
displayed.

Prior to AutoCAD 2007, the valid range was 1 -
32,767.
GRIPS

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
OPTIONS
Integer Toggles the display of grips when the user uses
implied selection.
0 - Off
1 - On
GRIPSIZE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
OPTIONS
Integer Specifies the size that grips are displayed in pixels.
Valid range 1 - 255.
GRIPTIPS

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
OPTIONS
Integer Specifies whether tooltips are displayed for custom
grips when the mouse pauses (hovers) over top of
a grip.
0 - Tooltips are turned off
1 - Tooltips are turned on


GTAUTO

Stored In: Registry
Category: Modifying
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 3DMOVE, 3DROTATE Integer Specifies whether grip tools are automatically
displayed when selecting objects prior to a
command being started when a 3D visual style is
specified.
0 - Grip tools are not automatically displayed
when objects are selected prior to a
command being started
1 - Grip tools are automatically displayed
when objects are selected prior to a
command being started
GTDEFAULT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Modifying
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 3DMOVE, 3DROTATE Integer Specifies whether the 3D counterparts to the
commands MOVE and ROTATE are started
automatically when in a 3D view.
0 - The commands 3DMOVE and 3DROTATE
are not automatically started when the
commands MOVE and ROTATE are used
when in a 3D view
1 - The commands 3DMOVE and 3DROTATE
are automatically started when the
commands MOVE and ROTATE are used
when in a 3D view
GTLOCATION

Stored In: Registry
Category: Modifying
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 3DMOVE, 3DROTATE Integer Specifies the location in which a grip tool is
displayed when objects are selected prior to the
starting of the commands 3DMOVE and
3DROTATE.
0 - The grip tool is displayed at and aligned
with the UCS icon
1 - The grip tool is displayed at and aligned
with the last object or subobject selected


HALOGAP

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2002 - 2009
0 OPTIONS, HIDE,
SHADEMODE
Integer Specifies a gap to be displayed when an object is
hidden by another object. The value that is
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. HALOGAP is used only
for 2D views and VSHALOGAP is used only for 3D
views.
HANDLES

Comments: Obsolete
Stored In: Drawing
1 Integer Specifies whether entities use handles (Ids).
0 - Off
1 - On

System variable is maintained for legacy and
compatibility of existing script files.
HIDEPRECISION

Category: Display
0 HIDE Integer Controls the accuracy used when generating
hidden and shaded views. HIDEPRECISION is
used only for 2D views and VSHIDEPRECISION is
used only for 3D views.
0 - Single precision, less memory is used
1 - Double precision, more memory is used
HIDETEXT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2002 - 2009
1 HIDE, SHADEMODE Integer Toggles the behavior of text objects created by the
TEXT, DTEXT, or MTEXT commands are
processed during the HIDE command.
0 - Text objects are not hidden during the
processing of the Hide.
1 - Text objects are hidden during the
processing of the Hide.


HIDEXREFSCALES

Stored In:
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2009
1 OBJECTSCALE, XREF, -
XREF,
EXTERNALREFERENCES
Integer Controls whether annotation scales from Xrefs are
displayed in the list of available annotation scales
for use in the current drawing or not. Annotation
scales from Xrefs are only listed if the same
annotation scale is not found in the current
drawing.
0 - Annotation scales in an Xref are displayed
1 - Annotation scales in an Xref are not
displayed
HIGHLIGHT

1 DDRMODES Integer Controls whether objects are highlighted on screen
after being selected.
0 - Off
1 - On
HPANG

Category: Drafting
0 HATCH, -HATCH, BHATCH, -
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Integer Current hatch angle.
HPASSOC

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Integer Controls the associative property of new hatches
and gradient fills.
0 - Hatches and gradient fills are not created
as being associated to their boundaries
1 - Hatches and gradient fills are created as
being associated to their boundaries and
are updated when the boundary is
changed
HPBOUND

Category: Drafting
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Integer Controls the type of object that is created when the
BHATCH and BOUNDARY command is used.
0 - Region
1 - Polyline


HPDOUBLE

Category: Drafting
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Integer Specifies if hatch pattern doubling is to be used
when a User defined pattern is used.
0 - Disables doubling
1 - Enables doubling
HPDRAWORDER

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Integer Controls the Draw Order of hatches and gradient
fills when they are created.
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

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
0.0000 HATCH, -HATCH, BHATCH, -
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Real Allows for a fuzz factor to be used when objects
are not completely closed when generating the
boundary for hatching. Maximum size for the gap
that is to be bridged must be within the range of 0
to 5000.
HPINHERIT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Integer Controls whether the hatch origin is used when
inheriting properties from an existing hatch or
gradient fill object.
0 - Hatch origin is taken from HPORIGIN
system variable
1 - Hatch origin is taken from the source
hatch object


HPMAXLINES

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1000000 HATCH Real Specifies the total number of line segments that a
hatch object can be generated with. Valid range is
100 to 10000000.
HPNAME

Category: Drafting
ANSI31 HATCH, -HATCH, BHATCH, -
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
String Current hatch pattern name.
HPOBJWARNING

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
10000 HATCH, BHATCH, -BHATCH,
HATCHEDIT
Integer Controls the number of hatch boundary objects
that can be selected before a warning message is
displayed.
HPORIGIN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0.0000,0.0000 HATCH, -HATCH, BHATCH, -
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
2D-Point Controls the hatch origin point for new hatch
objects relative to the current User Coordinate
System (UCS).


HPORIGINMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Integer Controls how the default hatch origin point is
determined.
0 - Hatch origin is based on HPORIGIN
1 - Hatch origin is set to the bottom-left corner
of the rectangular extents of the hatch
boundaries
2 - Hatch origin is set to the bottom-right
corner of the rectangular extents of the
hatch boundaries
3 - Hatch origin is set to the top-right corner of
the rectangular extents of the hatch
boundaries
4 - Hatch origin is set to the top-left corner of
the rectangular extents of the hatch
boundaries
5 - Hatch origin is set to the center of the
rectangular extents of the hatch
boundaries
HPSCALE

Category: Drafting
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Real Current hatch pattern scale factor.
HPSEPARATE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Integer Controls whether a single hatch object or separate
hatch objects are created when there are several
separate closed boundaries.
0 - A single hatch object is created
1 - Separate hatch objects are created


HPSPACE

Category: Drafting
BHATCH, HATCHEDIT
Real Current value for spacing used using a User
Defined hatch pattern.
HYPERLINKBASE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
HYPERLINK, -HYPERLINK String Specifies the path used for all relative hyperlinks
defined in the current drawing.
IMAGEHLT

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 IMAGE, -IMAGE Integer Controls how an image is highlighted when it is
selected.
0 - Raster image frame is only highlighted
1 - Raster image is highlighted
IMPLIEDFACE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 Object Selection Commands Integer Controls if AutoCAD allows you to detect implied
faces.
0 - Implied faces can't be detected
1 - Implied faces can be detected
INDEXCTL

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 SAVE, SAVEAS, QSAVE Integer Controls whether layer and spatial indexes are
created, and saved in drawing files.
0 - No indexes are created
1 - Layer index is created
2 - Spatial index is created
3 - Layer and spatial indexes are created
INETLOCATION

Stored In: Registry
http://www.autodesk.com BROWSER String Default URL used for BROWSER command.


INPUTHISTORYMODE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
15 Bitcode Controls the type of content and the location that
user input history is available from. Since it is a
bitcode, it is value based on the combination of the
values below summed together.
0 - No history of recent input is displayed
1 - History of recent input is displayed using
the Up and Down arrow keys at the
Command Line or the dynamic prompt
tooltip
2 - History of recent input for the current
command is displayed in the shortcut
menu
4 - History of recent input for all commands
for the current session is displayed in the
shortcut menu
8 - Markers of recent input of point locations
are displayed in the drawing
INSBASE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 INSERT, -INSERT 3D Point Insertion point used if the for current drawing is
inserted as a block.
INSNAME

Category: Drafting
INSERT, -INSERT String Last block that was inserted with the INSERT
command.


INSUNITS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 ADCENTER, INSERT. -
INSERT
Integer Controls the units that are used when an image or
block is drag 'n dropped from the DesignCenter or
the INSERT command.
0 - No units
1 - Inches
2 - Feet
3 - Miles
4 - Millimeters
5 - Centimeters
6 - Meters
7 - Kilometers
8 - Microinches
9 - Mils
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

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 ADCENTER, INSERT, -
INSERT
Integer Controls the content source unit value.
0 - No units
1 - Inches
2 - Feet
3 - Miles
4 - Millimeters
5 - Centimeters
6 - Meters
7 - Kilometers
8 - Microinches
9 - Mils
10 - Yards
11 - Angstroms
12 - Nanometers
13 - Microns
14 - Decimeters
15 - Decameters
16 - Hectometers
17 - Gigameters
19 - Light Years
20 - Parsecs


INSUNITSDEFTARGET

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 ADCENTER, INSERT, -
INSERT
Integer Controls the target drawing unit value.
0 - No units
1 - Inches
2 - Feet
3 - Miles
4 - Millimeters
5 - Centimeters
6 - Meters
7 - Kilometers
8 - Microinches
9 - Mils
10 - Yards
11 - Angstroms
12 - Nanometers
13 - Microns
14 - Decimeters
15 - Decameters
16 - Hectometers
17 - Gigameters
19 - Light Years
20 - Parsecs
INTELLIGENTUPDATE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
20 Integer Controls the graphic refresh rate. If you encounter
problems related to graphics generation or timing,
the feature can be disabled by setting it to a value
of 0. The setting works by suppressing the
graphics update until the timer expires, each
update results in the resetting of the timer. The
performance improvement will significantly affect
updates for scripts and AutoLISP graphics. No
noticeable difference in performance will be seen
with regular AutoCAD commands.


INTERFERECOLOR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 VISUALSTYLES String Specifies the color used for interference objects.
The color can be expressed as an ACI color using
the numbers 1 - 255 and ByLayer as well as a
True Color in the format of RGB:000,000,000.
INTERFEREOBJVS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
Realistic VISUALSTYLES String Specifies the visual style that should be used for
interference objects.
INTERFEREVPVS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
3D Wireframe VISUALSTYLES String Specifies the current visual style that should be
used in a viewport when interference checking is
being performed.
INTERSECTIONCOLOR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
257 HLSETTINGS, OPTIONS,
VISUALSTYLES
Integer Specifies the color that is used at the intersections
of polylines of a 3D surface when the current visual
style is 2D Wireframe. INTERSECTIONDISPLAY
must be turned on in order for this value to matter.
0 - ByBlock
1 to 255 - Standard ACI colors
256 - ByLayer
257 - ByEntity
INTERSECTIONDISPLAY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
0 HLSETTINGS, OPTIONS,
VISUALSTYLES
Integer Controls the use of INTERSECTIONCOLOR for
displaying intersection polylines for 3D surfaces
when the current visual style is set to 2D
Wireframe.
0 (Off) - Display of intersection polylines is not
enabled
1 (On) - Display of intersection polylines is
enabled


ISAVEBAK

Stored In: Registry
SAVE
Integer Controls the creation of a backup file (BAK).
0 - No BAK file is created
1 - BAK file is created
ISAVEPERCENT

Stored In: Registry
SAVE, SAVEAS, QSAVE
Integer Total amount of wasted space in a drawing file.
Valid range 0 - 100.
ISOLINES

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
4 Integer Number of isolines per surface on objects. Valid
range 0 - 2047.
LASTANGLE

Category: Drafting
0.0000 ARC Real End angle of last arc drawn relative to the XY
plane of the current UCS of the current space.
LASTPOINT

Category: Drafting
0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 Most Commands that Request
a Pick Point
3D Point Last point picked in the drawing, expressed as a
UCS coordinate for the current space. This is the
value that is used when the `@' symbol is used at
the command line.
LASTPROMPT

Most Commands String Last string or prompt echoed at the command line.


LATITUDE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
37.7950 SUNPROPERTIES,
GEOGRAPHICLOCATION
Real Specifies the latitude to use for the sun system.
The valid range is -90 - +90, positive values
represent northern latitudes.
LAYERDLGMODE

Stored In:
Release(s): R2009
1 LAYER Integer Controls if the Layer Properties Manager is
displayed as a palette or dialog box when the
LAYER command is used.
0 - Dialog box is displayed
1 - Palette is displayed
LAYEREVAL

Comments: System variable
is depended on the value of
LAYEREVALCTL.
Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 LAYER Integer Controls when the drawing checks for new layers
that have been added to the drawing.
0 - Never
1 - Checks for new layers added to the
drawing through attached Xrefs
2 - Checks for new layers added to the
drawing through attached Xrefs and the
drawing via other methods other than the
LAYER command
LAYEREVALCTL

Comments: Uses the values
of LAYEREVAL and
LAYERNOTIFY to determine
what should happen when
evaluation is enabled.
Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2009
1 LAYER Integer Controls whether a drawing is checked for
unreconciled layers.
0 - Evaluation is disabled
1 - Evaluation is enabled


LAYERFILTERALERT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
2 LAYER Integer Controls the behavior of removing layer filters out
of a drawing automatically. If a drawing contains
over 100 layer filters and the number of layer filters
exceeds the number of layers, the system helps to
improve performance by dealing with this
excessive number of layer filters.
0 - Off
1 - Upon opening the Layer Manager, delete
all the layer filters and don't display a
warning message
2 - Upon opening the Layer Manager, display
a warning message that recommends the
deleting of all the layer filters. A dialog box
with the question "Do you want to delete
all layer filters now?" appears on screen.
3 - Upon opening the drawing, a message is
displayed and offers the choice of which
filters should be deleted
LAYERMANAGERSTATE

Release(s): R2009
0 LAYER Integer Indicates the display status of the Layer Properties
Manager.
0 - Layer Properties Manager is not displayed
1 - Layer Properties Manager is displayed
LAYERNOTIFY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 LAYER Bitcode Controls the notification of new layers that have
not been reconciled yet.
0 - Notifications disabled
1 - On plot
2 - On open
4 - On load/reload/attach of an Xref
8 - On restoring of a layer state
16 - On save
32 - On insert


LAYLOCKFADECTL

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
50 LAYER Integer Specifies the percentage that the color of locked
layers should be faded. Valid range is -90 to 90.
0 - Locked layers are not faded
> 0 - Locked layers are faded by the value
specified
< 0 - Locked layers are not faded, and the
previous value is retained
LAYOUTREGENCTL

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
2 LAYOUT Integer Controls the display behavior of how a layout acts
when switching to it.
0 - Each time you switching to a layout tab, a
regeneration occurs.
1 - Model and the last layout tab is cached
into memory.
2 - Initial display of the tab is the only time
that a regeneration occurs and any other
time that the tab is activated it is read from
cache.
LAZYLOAD

Stored In: Registry
0 Integer Controls whether drawings would or should be
demand loaded.
0 - Off
1 - On
LEGACYCTRLPICK

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 Object selection commands Integer Controls whether the combination CTRL+Left click
performs selection cycling or selects subobjects on
a 3D solid.
0 - CTRL+Left click allows you to select
subobjects on a 3D solid
1 - CTRL+left click performs selection cycling
and restores the default behavior of
CTRL+Left click prior to AutoCAD 2007


LENSLENGTH

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
50.0000 DVIEW Real Holds the lens length (in millimeters) for
perspective viewing.
LIGHTGLYPHDISPLAY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 LIGHT, POINTLIGHT,
SPOTLIGHT
Integer Toggles the display of light glyphs in a drawing.
0 - Off
1 - On
LIGHTINGUNITS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
2 LIGHTS Integer Controls whether generic photometric lights are
used in the drawing when rendering and which
units are used.
0 - No units and generic lighting is enabled
1 - American units and photometric lighting is
enabled
2 - International units and photometric lighting
is enabled
LIGHTLISTSTATE

Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 LIGHTLIST Integer Indicates the display status of the Lights in Model
palette.
0 - Lights in Model palette is not active
1 - Lights in Model palette is active
LIGHTSINBLOCKS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 LIGHTS Integer Specifies if lights in a block are enabled or
disabled when rendering.
0 - Disabled
1 - Enabled


LIMCHECK

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0 Most commands Integer Controls creation of objects outside the drawing
limits.
0 - Object can be created outside limits
1 - Object must be created inside limits
LIMMAX

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
12.0000,9.0000 LIMITS 2D Point Upper-right limits for the current space.
LIMMIN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0.0000,0.0000 LIMITS 2D Point Lower-left limits for the current space.
LINEARBRIGHTNESS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 LIGHTS Integer Specifies the global brightness level used for a
rendering when using generic lighting. Valid range
is -10 to 10.
LINEARCONTRAST

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 LIGHTS Integer Specifies the global contrast level used for a
rendering when using generic lighting. Valid range
is -10 to 10.
LISPINIT

Stored In: Registry
1 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS Integer AutoLISP variables and functions are preserved
between drawings with SDI is active.
0 - Preserved between drawings
1 - Destroyed between drawings


LOCALE

en or enu String Language code of the current AutoCAD version
that is running.
LOCALROOTPREFIX

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
name>\Local Settings\Application
\<language>\
String Location that points to the Local Settings folder for
AutoCAD on the current machine or user profile.
LOCKUI

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 Bitcode Controls which UI elements are locked and
unlocked. The UI elements that are affected by this
variable are toolbars and palettes. The CTRL key
acts like a temporary override. If the CTRL key is
held down while attempting to drag a toolbar or
palette after the UI has been locked it will allow
you to move it as if it wasn't locked. Since it is a
bitcode, it is value based on the combination of the
values below summed together.
0 - Toolbars and palettes are not locked
1 - Docked toolbars are locked
2 - Docked or anchored palettes are locked
4 - Floating toolbars are locked
8 - Floating palettes are locked
LOFTANG1

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
90 LOFT Real Specifies the first cross sections draft angle of a
loft operation. Valid range is 0 - less than 360.


LOFTANG2

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
90 LOFT Real Specifies the last cross sections draft angle of a
loft operation. Valid range is 0 - less than 360.
LOFTMAG1

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0.0000 LOFT Integer Specifies the magnitude of the draft angle through
the first cross section of a loft operation. Valid
range is 1 - 10.
LOFTMAG2

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0.0000 LOFT Integer Specifies the magnitude of the draft angle through
the last cross section of a loft operation. Valid
range is 1 - 10.
LOFTNORMALS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 LOFT Integer Specifies the normals of a lofted object where it
passes through cross sections, and is ignored
when using a path or guide curves.
0 - Ruled
1 - Smooth
2 - First normal
3 - Last normal
4 - Ends normal
5 - All normal
6 - Use draft angle and magnitude


LOFTPARAM

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
7 LOFT Integer Specifies the shape of solids or surfaces that are
created by lofting.
0 - No parameters used
1 - No twisting
2 - Align direction
4 - Simplify
8 - Close
LOGEXPBRIGHTNESS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
65.0 LIGHTS Real Specifies the global brightness level when using
photometric lighting. Valid range is 0 to 200.
LOGEXPCONTRAST

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
50.0 LIGHTS Real Specifies the global contrast level when using
photometric lighting. Valid range is 0 to 100.
LOGEXPDAYLIGHT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
2 LIGHTS Integer Specifies if daylight is calculated when using
photometric lighting.
0 - Off
1 - On
2 - Auto; current settings for the Sun
properties are used
LOGEXPMIDTONES

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1.0 LIGHTS Real Specifies the global mid tones level when using
photometric lighting. Valid range is 0.01 to 20.


LOGEXPPHYSICALSCALE

Comments: Undocumented in
AutoCAD 2008
Stored In: Drawing
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1500.000 LIGHTS Real Specifies the brightness of self-illuminated
materials when using photometric lighting. Valid
range is 0.001 to 200000.
LOGFILEMODE

Stored In: Registry
0 Integer Specifies if a log file is maintained.
0 - No log file is maintained
1 - Log file is maintained
LOGFILENAME

Stored In: Drawing
String Specifies the path and name of the log file for the
current drawing.
LOGFILEPATH

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
\<language>\
String Specifies the path of the log files for all open
drawings in the current session.
LOGINNAME

String Displays the name configured with AutoCAD.
Maximum of 30 characters in length.


LONGFNAME

and later
Stored In: Configuration File
Release(s): R13
1 Integer Indicates if long file name support has been
enabled or disabled.
0 - Disables long file name support
1 - Enables long file name support
LONGITUDE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
-122.3940 SUNPROPERTIES,
GEOGRAPHICLOCATION
Real Specifies the longitude to use for the sun system.
The valid range is -180 - +180, positive values
represent western longitudes.
LTSCALE
Command Alias(es): LTS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
1.0000 LINETYPE Real Current global Linetype scale.
LUNITS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
2 DDUNITS, UNITS, -UNITS Integer Current linear units mode.
1 - Scientific
2 - Decimal
3 - Engineering
4 - Architectural
5 - Fractional
LUPREC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
4 DDUNITS, UNITS, -UNITS Integer Decimal places to represent linear units. Valid
range is 0 - 8.


LWDEFAULT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
25 LWEIGHT Integer Specifies default lineweight, lineweights must be
expressed in hundredths of millimeters.

Valid lineweights are: 0, 5, 9, 13, 15, 18, 20, 25,
30, 35, 40, 50, 53, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 106, 120,
140, 158, 200, and 211
LWDISPLAY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 LWEIGHT Integer Controls the display of lineweights with each tab in
the drawing, setting is displayed with each tab in
the drawing.
0 - Lineweight display is turned off
1 - Lineweight display is turned on
LWUNITS

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 LWEIGHT Integer Controls whether lineweights are displayed in
inches or millimeters.
0 - Inches
1 - Millimeters
MACROTRACE

0 Integer A debugging tool for DIESEL expressions.
0 - MACROTRACE is disabled.
1 - Displays an evaluation of all DIESEL
expressions in the command line.
MATSTATE

Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 MATERIALS Integer Indicates the display status of the Materials
palette.
0 - Materials palette is not active
1 - Materials palette is active
MAXACTVP

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
64 MVIEW Integer Maximum number of viewports that can be
regenerated at the same time. Valid range 0 -
32767.


MAXOBJMEM

Stored In: Configuration
File/Registry
0 Integer Indicated how much physical memory would be
used before disk paging occurred. 0 equaled all
memory would be allowed. This was used under
the older memory paging system for R13 and is no
longer used after R13.
MAXSORT

Stored In: Registry
1000 LAYER Integer Maximum number of symbols/files sorted in listing
commands. If number exceeds the value specified,
no items are sorted. Valid range 0 - 32767.
MBUTTONPAN

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 Integer Controls how the wheel or the middle mouse
button responds.
0 - Acts upon what is defined in the
ACAD.MNU file for AutoCAD 2005 and
prior or to what is defined in the
ACAD.CUI file for AutoCAD 2006 and
later.
1 - Starts the pan operation when holding
down the mouse button or wheel.
MEASUREINIT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
0 Integer Sets the drawing's units to Imperial (English) or
Metric, importantly this variable affects mainly new
drawings that are created from scratch. Note: See
also MEASUREMENT.
0 - English, ANSI Hatch and Linetypes are
used
1 - Metric, ISO Hatch and Linetypes are used


MEASUREMENT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 Integer Sets the drawing's units to Imperial (English) or
Metric.
0 - English, ANSI Hatch and Linetypes are
used
1 - Metric, ISO Hatch and Linetypes are used
MENUBAR

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
0 Integer Toggles the display of the menu bar along the top
of the AutoCAD application window.
0 - Off
1 - On
MENUCTL

Stored In: Registry
1 Integer Controls the page switching of the menu during
use of the Screen Menu.
0 - Page switching is disabled
1 - Page switching is enabled
MENUECHO

0 Integer Controls Menu echoing and prompting.
0 - Normal
1 - Suppresses menu echo
2 - Suppresses printing of system prompts
4 - Disables ^P for menu echo
8 - Displays input/output strings
MENUNAME

Stored In: Drawing
name>\Application
\<language>\support\acad
MENU, MENULOAD,
CUILOAD
String Current name of the main CUI or menu file that is
loaded.


MILLISECS

Varies Long Number returned from the Win32 GetTickCount
API. It's the number of millisecs since the system
was booted.
MIRRTEXT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 Integer Toggles the mirroring of text.
0 - Text retains its original direction
1 - Text becomes mirrored
MLEADERSCALE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2009
1.0000 MLEADER, MLEADERSTYLE Integer Specifies the global scale factor in which all
multileaders should be drawn by.
0.0 - Multileader scale is calculated based on
scaling between the current model space
viewport and paper space
> 0 - Scale factor to be used to calculate the
correct display size of multileaders in the
drawing
MODEMACRO

String Used to help debug Diesel programming and
display values in the status bar.
MSLTSCALE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 Integer Specifies if linetypes on the Model tab should be
scaled using the annotation scale or not.
0 - Linetypes are not scaled.
1 - Linetypes are scaled


MSMSTATE

Release(s): R2005 - 2009
0 MARKUP Integer Indicates the display status of the Markup Manager
palette.
0 - Markup Manager palette is not active
1 - Markup Manager palette is active
MSOLESCALE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
1.0000 INSERTOBJ Real Controls the size of an OLE object that has text
when it is pasted into Model Space. This only
affects the initial size of the OLE object being
created and none of the existing objects in the
drawing.
>0 - Positive number scales by value
0 - DIMSCALE value is used for scaling
MTEXTED

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Internal MTEXT, MTEDIT String Name of the editor for Mtext objects. Some of the
built-in editors that can be used with Mtext change
slightly based on the release.
:LISPED - Uses a very basic single line text
editor
Internal - Uses the default Mtext editor for the
release
Oldeditor - Available in AutoCAD 2006 and later.
This switches to using the Mtext editor
that was available in AutoCAD 2005
which wasn't a true in-place text
editor.


MTEXTFIXED

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
2 MTEXT, MTEDIT Integer Determines how the Mtext Editor is presented to
the user.


If MTEXTED is set to "Internal":
0 or 1 - The In-Place Text Editor is displayed
based on the multiline text object's
height, position and rotation.
2 - The In-Place Text Editor is displayed
based on the multiline text object's
height, position and rotation. If text is too
large, too small or is rotated, the text is
displayed in the In-Place Text Editor so it
is legible.

If MTEXTED is set to "OldEditor":
0 - Mtext Editor works in-place based on the
text height and size on screen. If the text
is too large or too small the in-place
editing will not be used, and if the text is
rotated it will be displayed horizontally.
1 or 2 - Mtext Editor will not be used for in-place
editing and will be displayed at the last
used size and location. Text that is
rotated will be displayed horizontally.

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. Text that is rotated will be
displayed horizontally
1 - Mtext Editor will not use in-place editing
and will be displayed at the last used
size and location. Text that is rotated will
be displayed horizontally


MTEXTTOOLBAR

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2009
2 MTEXT, MTEDIT Integer Controls the display of the Text Formatting toolbar
when creating or editing multiline text.
0 - Never displayed
1 - Text Formatting toolbar is always
displayed when a multiline text object is
being edited
2 - Text Formatting toolbar is not displayed
when a multiline text object is being edited
and the ribbon is displayed
MTJIGSTRING

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
abc MTEXT String Displays a preview string when creating a multiline
text object with the MTEXT command. The preview
string shows what the text will look like with the
current text style and size. A maximum of ten
characters is allowed for the preview string.
MYDOCUMENTSPREFIX

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
name>\My Documents
String Location that points to the My Documents folder on
the current machine or user profile.
NAVSWHEELMODE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
0 NAVSWHEEL Integer Specifies the mode to use for the SteeringWheels.
0 - Big View Object wheel
1 - Big Tour Building wheel
2 - Big Full Navigation wheel
3 - 2D Navigation wheel
4 - Mini View Object wheel
5 - Mini Tour Building wheel
6 - Mini Full Navigation wheel
NAVSWHEELOPACITYBIG

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
50 NAVSWHEEL Integer Specifies the opacity for the big SteeringWheels.
Valid range is 25 to 90.


NAVSWHEELOPACITYMINI

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
50 NAVSWHEEL Integer Specifies the opacity for the mini SteeringWheels.
NAVSWHEELSIZEBIG

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
1 NAVSWHEEL Integer Specifies the size of the big SteeringWheels.
0 - Small
1 - Normal
2 - Large
NAVSWHEELSIZEMINI

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
1 NAVSWHEEL Integer Specifies the size of the mini SteeringWheels.
0 - Small
1 - Normal
2 - Large
3 - Extra Large
NAVVCUBEDISPLAY

Stored In: Drawing
Release(s): R2009
1 NAVVCUBE Integer Controls whether the ViewCube is displayed in the
current viewport when a 3D visual style is applied.
0 - Not Displayed
1 - Displayed
NAVVCUBELOCATION

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
0 NAVVCUBE Integer Specifies the corner of the viewport that the
ViewCube is displayed insize of the mini
SteeringWheels.
0 - Upper-right
1 - Upper-left
2 - Lower-left
3 - Lower-right
NAVVCUBEOPACITY

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
50 NAVVCUBE Integer Specifies the opacity of the ViewCube. Valid range
is 0 to 100.


NAVVCUBEORIENT

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
1 NAVVCUBE Integer Specifies if the ViewCube is oriented to the current
UCS or WCS.
0 - Oriented to the WCS
1 - Oriented to the current UCS
NAVVCUBESIZE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
1 NAVVCUBE Integer Specifies the size of the ViewCube.
0 - Small
1 - Normal
2 - Large
NFWSTATE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
1 Integer Indicates whether or not the New Features
Workshop is available from the Help pull-down
menu.
0 - New Features Workshop is disabled
1 - New Features Workshop is enabled
NODENAME

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
ac$ String File extension used by AutoCAD when is creates
temporary files.
NOMUTT

Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 Integer Toggles the muttering of messages displayed by
AutoCAD.
0 - Resumes normal message muttering
1 - Suppress muttering indefinitely
NORTHDIRECTION

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0.0000 SUNPROPERTIES Real Specifies the northern angle for the sun system
and is expressed as a value of the World
Coordinate System (WCS). The designated value
is affected by the values of the system variables
AUNITS and AUPREC.


OBSCUREDCOLOR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2002 - 2009
257 HIDE, SHADEMODE,
HLSETTINGS, OPTIONS
Integer Specifies the color of obscured lines in 2D views.
An obscured line is a hidden line made visible by
changing its color and Linetype is visible only when
the HIDE or SHADEMODE commands are used
and OBSCUREDLTYPE is turned ON. In 3D
views, the system variable VSOBSCUREDCOLOR
is used.
0 - ByBlock
1 to 255 - Standard ACI colors
256 - ByLayer
257 - ByEntity
OBSCUREDLTYPE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2002 - 2009
0 HIDE, SHADEMODE,
HLSETTINGS, OPTIONS
Integer Specifies the Linetype of obscured lines in 2D
views. Obscured Linetypes are not like standard
Linetypes in AutoCAD because they are
independent of zoom level. In 3D views, the
system variable VSOBSCUREDLTYPE is used.
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

Category: Drafting
-1.0000 OFFSET Real Last distance used with the offset command.
<0 - Offset distance through a specified point
>=0 - Default distance for offset
OFFSETGAPTYPE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 OFFSET Integer Controls how gap of a polyline that has being
offset are affected.
0 - Extends the segments to fill the gap
1 - Gap is filled with a filleted arc
2 - Gap is filled with a chamfered line
OLEFRAME

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
2 PLOT, PUBLISH Integer Controls the display of the frame around an OLE
object.
0 - No frame is displayed around an OLE
object and is not plotted
1 - Frame is displayed around OLE object and
is plotted
2 - Frame is displayed around OLE object and
is not plotted
OLEHIDE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
0 Integer Controls the display of OLE objects in AutoCAD for
both display on screen and plotting.
0 - All OLE objects are visible and plot
1 - OLE objects are visible and only if found in
paper space are plotted
2 - OLE objects are visible and only if found in
model space are plotted
3 - No OLE objects are visible or plotted


OLEQUALITY

Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
3 Integer Controls the default plot quality of an OLE object
that has been embedded into AutoCAD.

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

0 - Line art quality, spreadsheet
1 - Text quality, word document
2 - Graphics quality, pie chart
3 - Photograph quality
4 - High quality photograph
OLESTARTUP

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 Integer Specifies whether the OLE embedded source
application is launched when plotting.
0 - Application is not launched when plotting
1 - Application is launched when plotting
OPENPARTIAL

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2009
1 PARTIALOPEN Integer Controls if the drawing can be edited before it is
completely opened or not.
0 - Drawing must be completely opened
before the drawing can be edited
1 - Drawing can be edited while the drawing is
still being opened


OPMSTATE

0 PROPERTIES,
PROPERTIESCLOSE
Integer Indicates the display status of the Properties
palette.
0 - Not displayed in the environment
1 - Currently displayed in the environment

2 - Currently displayed in the environment,
but Auto-Hide is enabled
ORTHOMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 Integer Current Ortho mode setting.
0 - Off
1 - On


OSMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
4133 DDOSNAP, OSNAP,
DSETTINGS
Integer Current running object snap modes.
0 - NONe
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

AutoCAD R2000 and later
4096 - EXTension
8192 - PARallel
OSNAPCOORD

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
2 Integer Determines if coordinates entered on the
command line override running object snaps.
0 - Running object snap settings override
keyboard coordinate entry
1 - Keyboard entry overrides object snap
settings
2 - Keyboard entry overrides object snap
settings with the exception of in scripts


OSNAPHATCH

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
0 OPTIONS, All commands that
request a point to be specified
Integer Determines whether Object Snaps are allowed to
act upon Hatch objects or not.
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 earlier

System variable was replaced by OSOPTIONS.
OSNAPNODELEGACY

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
0 Integer Controls whether the Node object snap is enabled
at the grip points for an Mtext object.
0 - Node snap is enabled at the grip points
1 - Node snap is disabled at the grip points
and is the legacy behavior of AutoCAD
2002 and prior
OSNAPOVERRIDE

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 All commands that request a
point to be specified
Integer Controls whether using object snap overrides are
allowed, or just running object snaps. This system
variable was implemented to support the
Temporary Override feature.
0 - Object snap overrides are allowed
1 - Object snap overrides are not allowed
OSNAPZ

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
Integer Controls whether object snaps are projected onto a
different plane parallel to the XY plane of the
current UCS based on the current elevation.
0 - The Z-value is used from the specified
point selected with the object snap
1 - The Z-value is substituted with the current
value in the ELEV system variable for the
specified point selected with the object
snap


OSOPTIONS

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
Integer Controls the behavior of object snaps on hatch
objects and geometry with a negative Z value
when dynamic UCS is being used.
0 - Object snaps are available on hatch
objects and on geometry with a negative Z
value when dynamic UCS is in use
1 - Object snaps don't work on hatch objects
2 - Object snaps don't work on geometry with
a negative Z value when dynamic UCS is
in use
PALETTEOPAQUE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
0 Integer Controls whether palettes can be displayed with
transparency.
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

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 PLOT Integer Controls the display of a warning message box
when paper size is not supported by the plotter.
0 - Warning box is displayed if the paper size
specified in the layout is not supported by
the plotter
1 - Paper size is set to the paper size
specified in the plotter configuration file


PDMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0 DDPTYPE Integer Specifies the point style used.
0 - Dot
1 - No Display
2 - + Symbol
3 - X symbol
4 - Short Line

Add 32, 64 and 96 to each of the above values to
change the display of the point to a different
symbol.
PDSIZE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0.0000 DDPTYPE Real Controls the display size of Points in the drawing.
0 - Point 5% of the graphics area height
>0 - Absolute size
<0 - Percentage of the viewport size
PEDITACCEPT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
0 PEDIT Integer Controls whether the prompt "Do you want to turn
it into one? <Y>" is active in the PEDIT command.
0 - Prompt is disabled
1 - Prompt is enabled
PELLIPSE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 ELLIPSE Integer Specifies the type of ellipse that is created with the
ELLIPSE command.
0 - True ellipse object
1 - Ellipse created by a polyline
PERIMETER

Category: Inquiry
0.0000 AREA, LIST, DBLIST Real Last calculated perimeter.


PERSPECTIVE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 Viewing Commands Integer Specifies if the current viewport is being displayed
from a perspective or parallel point-of-view.
Perspective view is not available when the current
visual style is set to 2D Wireframe.
0 - Off
1 - On
PERSPECTIVECLIP

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
5 Real Specifies the eye point clipping location as a
percentage from at the target view and beyond.
Valid range is 0.01 to 10.
PFACEVMAX

Category: Drafting
4 PFACE Integer Maximum number of vertices per face.
PHANDLE

0 Long Gets the current palette handle. 0 equates to True
Color. Valid range is 0 to 4294967295.
PICKADD

Stored In: Registry
1 DDSELECT, SELECT,
OPTIONS, Any Command that
Allows Selecting Objects
Integer Controls how additional objects are selected.
0 - Creates a new selection set with each new
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.


PICKAUTO

Stored In: Registry
1 DDSELECT, SELECT,
Integer Controls the use of automatic selection through a
window or crossing at the "Select objects:" prompt.
0 - Disables window and crossing selections
at select prompts
1 - Enables window and crossing selections
at select prompts
PICKBOX

Stored In: Registry
3 DDSELECT, SELECT,
Integer Specifies the object selection target height in
pixels. Valid range is 0 - 50.
PICKDRAG

Stored In: Registry
0 DDSELECT, SELECT,
Integer Controls the method for creating a selection
window.
0 - Two clicks to create selection window
1 - One click and then drag to create a
selection window
PICKFIRST

Stored In: Registry
1 DDSELECT, SELECT,
Integer Allows you to select objects before starting a
command and then perform an edit/inquiry
command.
0 - Disabled
1 - Enabled
PICKSTYLE

Stored In: Registry
1 DDSELECT, SELECT,
Integer Controls group selection and associative hatch
selection.
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 NT Version 5.1
(x86)
String Current version of the Operating System (OS) on
the computer.
PLINEGEN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0 PLINE Integer Determines how linetype patterns are generated
for 2D polylines.
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

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
2 PLINE, BOUNDARY, DONUT,
PEDIT, POLYGON, SKETCH
Integer Controls if old 2D polylines are converted to the
lightweight polylines and if new polylines are
created as lightweight polylines.
0 - When opening older drawings polylines
are not converted; PLINE command
creates old style 2D polylines
are not converted; PLINE command
creates new lightweight (optimized)
polylines
are converted; PLINE command creates
lightweight (optimized) polylines
PLINEWID

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 PLINE Real Last width used to create a 2D polyline with width.


PLOTID

and later
Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
PLOT String Current plotter that is used for the default the next
time you plot.
PLOTOFFSET

Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
0 PLOT, PUBLISH Integer Controls whether the plot offset of the paper is
relative to the printable area or the edge.
0 - Plot offset is set relative to the printable
area
1 - Plot offset is set relative to the edge of the
paper
PLOTROTMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
2 PLOT, PUBLISH Integer Specifies the orientation of plots.
0 - The effective plotting area is rotated so the
corner with the Rotation icon aligns with
the paper at the lower-left for 0, upper-left
for 90, upper-right for 180, and lower-right
for 270.
1 - The lower-left corner of the effective
plotting area is aligned with the lower-left
corner of the paper.
2 - Works the same as 0 value, except the X
and Y origin offsets are calculated relative
to the rotated origin position.
PLOTTER

and later
Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
0 PLOT Integer Default plotter, based on the plotter number
assigned to the plotter name. Value of 0 indicates
the first plotter and can go all the way up to 28.
Maximum of 29 plotters can be setup inside of
AutoCAD.


PLQUIET

Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 Running a Script or Batch
Plotting
Integer Controls whether AutoCAD will post optional
dialogs and nonfactual errors.
0 - Displays plot related dialog boxes and
nonfactual errors
1 - Logs nonfactual errors and doesn't display
plot related dialog boxes
POLARADDANG

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
DSETTINGS String Contains a list of user-defined polar angles. A list
can be created by supplying a list of 25 different
angles with each value separated by a semi-colon
(;).
POLARANG

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
90 DSETTINGS Integer Controls the default increment for the polar snap
angle. Values can be: 90, 45, 30, 22.8, 18, 15, 10
and 5.
POLARDIST

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0.0000 DSETTINGS Real Controls the snap increment when SNAPTYPE is
set to a value of 1.


POLARMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 DSETTINGS Integer Controls the settings for object snap tracking and
polar snap.

Polar angle of measurement:
0 - Polar angles are measured from the
current UCS
1 - Polar angles are measured from selected
objects

Object snap tracking:
0 - Track orthogonally only
2 - Utilize polar tracking settings in object
snap tracking mode

Use additionally supplied polar angles:
0 - No
4 - Yes

Acquire object snap tracking points:
0 - Acquire automatically
8 - SHIFT must be press to acquire point

When a 3D visual style is current, tracking can be
done along a vector parallel to the Z axis of the
current UCS and a tooltip is displayed to show
negative or positive movement along the Z axis.
POLYSIDES

Category: Drafting
4 POLYGON Integer Last number of sides used to create a polygon with
the POLYGON command. Valid range is 3 - 1024.


POPUPS

1 Integer Status of the currently configured display driver is
displayed.
0 - Display does not support dialog boxes, the
menu bar, pull-down menus, and icon
menus
1 - Display supports all features
PREVIEWEFFECT

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
implied selection
Integer Controls whether object selection previewing is
enabled and which visual effect it uses.
0 - Dashed lines only
1 - Thickened lines only
2 - Dashed and thickened lines
PREVIEWFILTER

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
implied selection
Bitcode Controls which type of objects are excluded from
the selection preview feature. Since it is a bitcode,
it is value based on the combination of the values
below summed together.
0 - Nothing is excluded
1 - Objects and locked layers are excluded
2 - Xrefs are excluded
4 - Tables are excluded
8 - Multiline text objects are excluded
16 - Hatch objects are excluded
32 - Objects in groups are excluded
PREVIEWTYPE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2009
0 NAVVCUBE Integer Specifies which view is used for the thumbnail of a
drawing.
0 - Last saved view
1 - Home view


PRODUCT

AutoCAD String Returns the product name.
PROGRAM

acad String Returns the program or executable name.
PROJECTNAME

Stored In: Drawing
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
String Project name is assigned to the current drawing.
Project names help to keep track of Xrefs, raster
images, and DWF underlays easier, by assigning
additional support paths specific to the project
only.
PROJMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
1 TRIM, EXTEND Integer Projection mode for TRIM or EXTEND commands.
0 - True 3D mode (no projection)
1 - Project to the XY plane of the current UCS
2 - Project to the plane of the current view
PROXYGRAPHICS

Stored In: Drawing
1 OPEN Integer Determines if images of proxy objects are saved in
the drawing.
0 - Image is not saved with the drawing, but a
bounding box is displayed in its place
1 - Image is saved with the drawing
PROXYNOTICE

Stored In: Registry
1 OPEN Integer Displays a notice when a proxy is present in the
drawing as it is being opened and the object
enabler/application isn't present.
0 - Proxy warning is not displayed
1 - Proxy warning is displayed


PROXYSHOW

Stored In: Registry
1 OPEN Integer Controls the display of proxy objects in a drawing.
0 - Proxy objects are not displayed
1 - All proxy images show graphically
2 - Bounding boxes are shown to represent
proxy objects
PROXYWEBSEARCH

Stored In: Registry
0 OPEN, OPTIONS Integer Specifies how AutoCAD goes about checking for
object enablers.

0 - Prevents AutoCAD from checking for
object enablers
1 - AutoCAD will only look for object enablers
only if a live connection to the internet is
be established

0 - Prevents AutoCAD from checking for
object enablers
1 - AutoCAD will only look for object enablers
at the Autodesk Point A portal web site,
and a live connection to the Internet must
be established
2 - Specifies the number of times AutoCAD
will try to check for the object enabler
PSLTSCALE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
1 ZOOM, REGEN, REGENALL Integer Current paper space Linetype scaling mode.
0 - Use model space scale factor
1 - Use viewport scale factor


PSOLHEIGHT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
4 (80 for metric) POLYSOLID Real Specifies the default height for the sweep when
creating a 3D solid object with the POLYSOLID
command.
PSOLWIDTH

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0.25 (5 for metric) POLYSOLID Real Specifies the default width for the sweep when
creating a 3D solid object with the POLYSOLID
command.
PSPROLOG

Stored In: Registry
PSOUT String Assigns a name for a prolog section to be read
from the acad.psf file when you are using PSOUT
command.
PSQUALITY

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
75 Integer Rendering quality of PostScript images and if they
are drawn filled or outlines.
0 - Turns off PostScript image generation
<0 - Number of pixels per AutoCAD drawing
unit for the PostScript resolution
>0 - Number of pixels per drawing unit but uses
the absolute value; causes AutoCAD to
show the PostScript as outlines and does
not fill them
PSTYLEMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 PLOT, PUBLISH Integer Indicates if the current drawing uses a plot style
that is color-dependent or uses named plot styles.
0 - Drawing is using a Named Plot Style Table
1 - Drawing is using Color-Dependent Plot
Style Table


PSTYLEPOLICY

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 PLOT, PUBLISH Integer Controls whether an object's plot style is
associated with its color property. The value only
Drawing is using newly created drawings and pre-
AutoCAD 2000 drawings.
0 - No association is made between color and
plot style. The plot style for new objects is
set to the value in DEFPLSTYLE, and new
layers are set to the value in
DEFLPLSTYLE.
1 - An object's plot style is associated with its
color.
PSVPSCALE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0.0000 Real Controls the scale factor of new viewports that are
added to the drawing. Value must be expressed as
a positive number.
PUBLISHALLSHEETS

Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 PUBLISH Integer Specifies how the drawing list of the Publish dialog
box is populated.
0 - Only the layouts and/or model tab are
added to the drawing list from the current
drawing.
1 - The layouts and/or model tab are added to
the drawing list based on all the open
drawings in the current session.


PUBLISHCOLLATE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 PUBLISH Integer Controls whether the sheets from a sheet set ate
publish individually or as a single job.
0 - Sheet set is published as individual sheets
resulting in separate PLT or PDF files.
Sheets are not published together which
might result in the sheets being published
with other jobs.
1 - Sheet set is published as a single job
resulting in a multi-sheet PLT or PDF file.
All sheets are published together.
PUBLISHHATCH

Comments: Only affects
published DWF and DWFX
files and not those plotted.
Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2009
1 PUBLISH Integer Controls whether the hatch objects published to a
DWF file are handled as a single object or
separate objects when imported into Autodesk
Impression.
0 - Separate objects
1 - Single object
PUCSBASE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
UCS String Stores the UCS name for paper space only.


QAFLAGS

Stored In: Registry
0 Integer An internal system variable that is used by
Autodesk. It stands for Quality Assurance Flags.
Below are some of the values that have been
discovered and tested. There are more, but no one
really knows them all because each developer
uses this variable differently.
0 - Commands work like normal
1 - ^C in menu cancels grips in they are
active, simulating the ESCape key, also
allows the select option All to work for
explode when used in AutoLISP.
2 - No pauses during the List command
4 - No Alert boxes displayed
8 - Unknown
16 - Unknown
32 - Unknown
64 - Unknown
128 - Allows for the use of Noun/Verb and Grips
via. The AutoLISP command function
(e.g., emulate user picks while AutoCAD is
at the Command: prompt)
256 - Unknown
512 - Sets Bind type to insert in AutoCAD R14
QAUCSLOCK

0 Integer Has something to do with locking/disabling
transparent UCS changes. It is traced back to
testing that was done in AutoCAD 2000i (Banff).
0 - Default value
1 - Unknown


QCSTATE

Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 QUICKCALC, QCCLOSE Integer Indicates the display status of the QuickCalc
palette.
0 - QuickCalc palette is hidden
1 - QuickCalc palette is displayed
QPLOCATION

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
0 QUICKPROPERTIES,
DSETTINGS
Integer Controls where the Quick Properties panel is
displayed.
0 - At the mouse pointer
1 - Floating
QPMODE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
1 QUICKPROPERTIES,
DSETTINGS
Integer Controls the display of the Quick Properties panel.
0 - Turned off for all objects
1 - Displayed for all objects
2 - Displayed for only the objects defined in
the load CUI files which can be edited with
the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor
QTEXTMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
QTEXT, Display of Text and
Attributes
Integer Toggles quick text mode which controls the display
of text in the drawing as either a rectangular box or
the actual text string.
0 - Off
1 - On
QUEUEDREGENMAX

Category: Display
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
Varies Long Description not available, but the value that is
stored is a long value such as 2147483647. This
could be some sort of time or date value, but that
is only a guess though.


QVDRAWINGPIN

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
0 QVDRAWING Integer Controls the pinned state of Quick View Drawing.
0 - Unpinned
1 - Pinned
QVLAYOUTPIN

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
0 QVLAYOUT Integer Controls the pinned state of Quick View Layout.
0 - Unpinned
1 - Pinned
RASTERDPI

Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
300 PLOT, PUBLISH Integer Controls paper size and plot scale when changing
between output devices from dimensional (inches
or millimeters) to dimensionless (pixel) and vice
versa. Valid range is 100 to 32,767.
RASTERPERCENT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
20 PLOT Integer Specifies the maximum amount of available virtual
memory that should be allocated when plotting a
raster image. Valid range is 1 to 100.
RASTERPREVIEW

Stored In: Registry
1 SAVE, SAVEAS, QSAVE Integer Determines whether or not preview images are
saved with a drawing.
0 - No preview image is saved with drawing
1 - Image is saved with drawing
RASTERTHRESHOLD

Stored In: Registry
Category: Plotting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
20 PLOT Integer Specifies the raster threshold in megabytes. If the
threshold is exceeded when plotting a raster
image, the system checks for available memory
and if the plot process exceeds the available
memory, it is terminated. Valid range is 0 to 2000.


RE-INIT

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

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
2 DRAWINGRECOVERY,
DRAWINGRECOVERYHIDE
Integer Controls if drawing recovery information is
recorded after AutoCAD or the system crashes.
0 - Drawing recovery information is not
maintained after a crash and the Drawing
Recovery palette isn't automatically load
after a crash.
1 - Drawing recovery information is
maintained after a crash, but the Drawing
Recovery palette isn't automatically load
after a crash.
2 - Drawing recovery information is
maintained after a crash and the Drawing
Recovery palette is automatically load in
the next session after a crash.
REFEDITNAME

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
REFEDIT String Indicates if a drawing is currently being edited in-
place and also holds the file name that is being
edited.
REGENMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
1 Integer Drawing regeneration mode and affects the
command REGENAUTO.
0 - Regen with each new view
1 - Regen only when required


REMEMBERFOLDERS

Stored In: Registry
1 Integer Controls the default path that is used in the
standard file navigation dialog boxes.
0 - Uses the Start In value of the shortcut icon
that was used to start AutoCAD. This
setting restores the behavior of AutoCAD
2000 and prior releases.
>0 - Uses the last successful path that was
called up for each dialog box. The Start In
value is ignored by AutoCAD 2000i and
later.
RENDERPREFSSTATE

Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 RPREF Integer Indicates the display status of the Advanced
Render Settings palette.
0 - Advanced Render Settings palette is
hidden
1 - Advanced Render Settings palette is
displayed
RENDERQUALITY

Stored In:
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2009
1 Integer Specifies the maximum sampling to use when
rendering. If the minimum sampling is larger than
the new maximum sampling, the minimum
sampling is adjusted to match the maximum
sampling.
-3 - 1/64
-2 - 1/16
-1 - 1/4
0 - 1
1 - 4
2 - 16
3 - 64
4 - 256
5 - 1024


RENDERUSERLIGHTS

Stored In: Registry
Category: Rendering
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 Integer Overrides the current setting of the
DEFAULTLIGHTING system variable.
0 - Rendering is done with default lighting
1 - Rendering is done using the user defined
lights
REPORTERROR

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
1 Integer Controls whether or not an error report is sent to
Autodesk when a fatal error occurs and causes
AutoCAD to close unexpectedly.
0 - Disables the error reporting system
1 - Enables the error reporting system

If Windows XP is the operating system AutoCAD is
running on and REPORTERROR is set to 0, the
error report can be sent to Microsoft.
RIASPECT

and later
Category: Display
0.0000 Real Changes the raster image aspect ratio.
RIBACKG

and later
Category: Display
0 Integer Changes the background color number.


RIBBONSTATE

Release(s): R2009
1 RIBBON, RIBBONCLOSE Integer Indicates the display status of the Ribbon palette.
0 - Ribbon palette is not displayed
1 - Ribbon palette is displayed
RIEDGE

and later
Category: Display
0 Integer Controls the edge detection feature for importing
an image.
0 - Disables edge detection
1 to
255 -
Sets the threshold for RIEDGE detection

RIGAMUT

and later
Category: Display
256 Integer Used to control the number of colors GIFIN,
PCXIN, and TIFFIN use when they import a color
image.
RIGREY

and later
Category: Display
0 Integer Used to import an image as a gray-scale image.
0 - Gray-scale image importing is disabled.
>0 - Gray-scale is used to convert the image as
it's imported.
RITHRESH

and later
Category: Display
0 Integer Used to control the importing of an image based
on brightness.
0 - RITHRESH is turned off.
>0 - RITHRESH is turned on and a brightness
filter is used to import the image into the
drawing.


ROAMABLEROOTPREFIX

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
name>\Application
\<language>\
String Location that points to the Application Data folder
for AutoCAD on the current machine or user
profile.
ROLLOVERTIPS

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
1 OPTIONS Integer Controls the display of rollover tooltips when the
mouse pointer is over an object in the drawing
window.
0 - Off
1 - On
RTDISPLAY

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
1 RTPAN, RTZOOM, ZOOM,
PAN
Integer Toggles the display of raster images during real-
time zoom or real-time pan operations.
0 - Displays the raster image and OLE
content
1 - Displays only a frame to represent the
raster image or OLE object
SAVEFIDELITY

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 SAVE, SAVEAS, QSAVE Integer Controls whether the visual fidelity of a drawing
containing annotation scaling is preserved when
saving.
0 - Visual fidelity is not saved
1 - Visual fidelity is saved
SAVEFILE

Stored In: Registry
name>\Local Settings\Temp\<current
drawing name.dwg>
String Current autosave file name with path for the
current drawing file.


SAVEFILEPATH

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
name>\Local Settings\Temp\
String Current autosave file path for the current drawing
file.
SAVEIMAGES

and later
Stored In: Drawing
Release(s): R13
0 Integer Used to control writing graphics metafiles for
application-defined objects, solids, bodies, and
regions.
0 - All data except, solids, bodies and regions
are saved
1 - Always saves images
2 - Never saves images
SAVENAME

String File name and folder path of the current drawing
once it has been saved.
SAVETIME

Stored In: Registry
10 Integer Current automatic save time interval. Temp file of
the current drawing is saved to the name supplied
in the SAVEFILE variable.
0 - Automatic save is disabled
>0 - Interval in which the automatic save will
occur if the drawing is not manually saved
preformed before then
SCREENBOXES

0 Integer Contains the number of boxes displayed in the
screen menu. If the screen menu is turned off the
value is zero.


SCREENMODE

3 Integer Stores the graphics/text state of the AutoCAD
display.
0 - Text screen is displayed
1 - Graphics area is displayed
2 - Dual-screen display is configured
SCREENSIZE

Varies 2D Point Current viewport size in pixels and represented as
an X,Y coordinate value.
SDI

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 OPEN Integer Controls whether or not AutoCAD supports a
Single or Multiple Document Environment.
0 - Multiple document environment support
1 - Single document environment support
2 - Multiple document environment is disabled
because the user loaded an application
that doesn't support multiple document
interface.
3 - User disabled multiple document
environment and the user also loaded an
application that doesn't support multiple
document interface.

Some commands such as
EXTERNALREFERNCES and XOPEN are
affected or not supported when SDI is disabled.
SELECTIONANNODISPLAY

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 OPTIONS Integer Toggles the display of the additional annotation
scale representations of an annotative object when
selected.
0 - Off
1 - On


SELECTIONAREA

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
implied selection
Integer Controls whether or not a fill color appears inside
of a window or crossing selection operation.
0 - Off
1 - On
SELECTIONAREAOPACITY

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
implied selection
Integer Controls the amount of transparency of the
selection area when using a crossing or window
selection. The valid range is 0 - 100, the lower the
value the more transparent the area is and the
higher the number the more opaque the area is.
SELECTIONPREVIEW

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
3 Select object: prompts and in
no command active state
Bitcode Controls when selection previewing is enabled.
Since it is a bitcode, it is value based on the
combination of the values below summed together.
0 - Off
1 - On when no command is active
2 - On when object selection is being
prompted for during a command
SETBYLAYERMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
127 Bitwise Specifies which properties are affected for an
object when using the SETBYLAYER command.
0 - None
1 - Color
2 - Linetype
4 - Lineweight
8 - Material
16 - Plot style
32 - Change ByBlock to ByLayer
64 - Include blocks when changing a layer from
ByBlock to ByLayer


SHADEDGE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
3 SHADE Integer Current shading style of edges in a rendering.
0 - Shaded faces only
1 - Shaded faces and edge background color
2 - Faces not filled in, and edges in object
color
3 - Faces in object color, and edges in
background color
SHADEDIF

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
70 SHADE Integer Percent of ambient light to diffuse reflective light,
and only affects the display of the drawing when
SHADEDGE is set so a value of 1 or 0. Valid range
is 0 to 100.
SHADOWPLANELOCATION

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0.0000 LIGHT, DISTANTLIGHT,
Real Specifies the z-height of the invisible ground plane
that casts and receives shadows. The ground
plane is only used when VSSHADOWS is set to 1
or 2.


SHORTCUTMENU

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
11 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS Integer Controls the status of the DEFAULT, EDIT, and
COMMAND shortcut menus should be enabled or
disabled.
0 - Disables DEFAULT, EDIT and
COMMAND mode
1 - Enables DEFAULT mode
2 - Enables EDIT mode
4 - Enables COMMAND mode whenever a
command is active
8 - Enables COMMAND mode whenever
options for a command are available at the
command line

16 - Enables the time delay right click feature
SHOWHIST

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 3D Solid Modify Commands Integer Controls the property Show History for 3D solids in
the drawing.
0 - The Show History property is set to no and
overrides the Show History property of
each individual 3D solid. You are not able
to view the individual objects that were
used to create the 3D solid.
1 - The Show History property does no
override the Show History property of each
individual 3D solid.
2 - The Show History property is set to yes
and overrides the Show History property of
each individual 3D solid. You are able to
view the individual objects that were used
to create the 3D solid.


SHOWLAYERUSAGE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 LAYER Integer Controls whether the Layer Properties Manager
checks to see if a layer is currently in use in the
drawing and adjusts the icon in the Status column
accordingly.
0 - Off
1 - On
SHOWMOTIONPIN

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
1 NAVSMOTION Integer Controls the pinned state of ShowMotion.
0 - Unpinned
1 - Pinned
SHPNAME

Category: Drafting
SHAPE String Current shape name.
SIGWARN

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
1 OPEN, XREF, -XREF,
INSERT, -INSERT
Integer Controls whether a message is displayed notifying
the user that a drawing with a digital signature is
being opened.
0 - No warning message is displayed
1 - Warning message is displayed
SKETCHINC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.1000 SKETCH Real Specifies the record increment used for the
SKETCH command.
SKPOLY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 SKETCH Integer Current mode of line generation for the SKETCH
command.
0 - Lines
1 - Polylines


SKYSTATUS

Stored In:
Release(s): R2009
0 Integer Controls if the sky is displayed in the background
when rendering.
0 - Off
1 - On with no illumination
2 - On with illumination
SNAPANG

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDRMODES, DSETTINGS Real Rotation angle for snap and grid in the current
viewport.
SNAPBASE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000,0.0000 DDRMODES, DSETTINGS 2D Point Origin for snap and grid in the current viewport.
SNAPISOPAIR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDRMODES, DSETTINGS Integer Current isometric drawing plane.
0 - Left Isometric
1 - Top Isometric
2 - Right Isometric
SNAPMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDRMODES, DSETTINGS Integer Current snap mode in the current viewport.
0 - Off
1 - On
SNAPSTYL

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 DDRMODES, DSETTINGS Integer Snap style in the current viewport.
0 - Standard (rectangular)
1 - Isometric


SNAPTYPE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
0 Integer Controls the type of snap mode in the current
viewport.
0 - Grid or standard (rectangular) snap
1 - PolarSnap used to snap along polar angle
increments and polar/object snap tracking
SNAPUNIT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.5000,0.5000 DDRMODES, DSETTINGS 2D Point Snap spacing in the current viewport.
SOLIDCHECK

Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 Integer Controls whether solid checking is turned on or off
for the current AutoCAD session.
0 - Solid validation is turned Off
1 - Solid validation is turned On
SOLIDHIST

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 3D Solid Modify Commands Integer Specifies the default value for the History property
on both newly created and existing 3D solid
objects.
0 - History property is set to None for all 3D
solids and no history is maintained
1 - History property is set to Record for all 3D
solids and the history of the original
objects used to create a composite solid
are maintained


SORTENTS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
127 PREFERENCES, OPTIONS Integer Entity display sort order
0 - Off
1 - Object selection
2 - Object snap
4 - Redraws
8 - Mslide slide creation
16 - Regens
32 - Plotting
64 - PostScript output
SPACESWITCH

Category: Drafting
1 Integer Controls whether the user is allowed to double-
click over a viewport on a layout and enter Model
Space.
0 - Disables double-clicking over a viewport to
enter Model Space
1 - Allows double-clicking over a viewport to
enter Model Space
SPLFRAME

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0 EDGE Integer Controls the display of edges marked invisible on
3D faces, meshes and polylines
0 - Off
1 - On
SPLINESEGS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
8 SPLINE Integer Number of line segments to be used when
generating a spline-fit polyline with the Spline
option of the PEDIT command.


SPLINETYPE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
6 PEDIT Integer Type of Spline generated with the Spline option of
the PEDIT command.
5 - Quadratic B-Spline
6 - Cubic B-Spline
SSFOUND

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
SHEETSET String Holds the path and name of the associated sheet
set file to the current drawing if it is found.
SSLOCATE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
1 SHEETSET Integer Controls whether AutoCAD will go through and
attempt to locate a sheet set file for the drawing
that is being opened.
0 - Don't open the sheet set file that is
associated with the drawing
1 - Open the sheet set file that is associated
to the drawing that is being opened
SSMAUTOOPEN

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
1 SHEETSET Integer Controls whether AutoCAD will display the Sheet
Set Manager when a drawing is opened that is
associated with a sheet set file.
0 - Sheet Set Manager is not opened
automatically
1 - Sheet Set Manager is automatically
opened

Both the system variables SSLOCATE and
SSMAUTOOPEN must be set to a value of 1 in
order for the Sheet Set Manager to be opened
automatically.


SSMPOLLTIME

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
60 SHEETSET Integer Controls the amount of time between automatic
refreshes of the status data in a sheet set. The
value specified is in seconds and must be within
the range of 20 - 600. The SSMSHEETSTATUS
system variable must be set to 2 in order for the
timer to operate.
SSMSHEETSTATUS

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
2 SHEETSET Integer Controls when the status data for a sheet set is
updated. The status data that is being referred to
in a sheet set is if a sheet is currently locked
(opened by another user), a sheet is missing from
the sheet set or possibly a sheet is found in an
unexpected location. A sheet set can be manually
refreshed by clicking the Refresh sheet status
button located on the Sheet List tab of the Sheet
Set Manager.
0 - Refreshing of the sheet set status data is
not done automatically
1 - Refreshing of the sheet set status data is
done only when it is initially loaded or
updated
2 - In addition to the affects that happen when
the values is set to 1, the sheet set status
data is also updated when the time interval
set by SSMPOLLTIME has elapsed
SSMSTATE

Release(s): R2005 - 2009
0 SHEETSET, SHEETSETHIDE Integer Indicates the display status of the Sheet Set
Manager palette.
0 - Sheet Set Manager palette is not active
1 - Sheet Set Manager palette is active


STANDARDSVIOLATION

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
2 STANDARDS,
CHECKSTANDARDS
Integer Controls the behavior of the Standards violation
notification system.
1 - A message box is displayed when a
violation to the standards occurs
2 - Icon is displayed in the status bar area
notifying of a drawing that has been
opened or object modified that doesn't
meet the specified standards
STARTUP

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
0 NEW, QNEW Integer Controls the display of the Startup or Create New
Drawing dialog box.
0 - Displays the Select Template File dialog
box or uses the default template that is
specified under the File section of the
Options dialog.
1 - Displays the Startup and Create New
Drawing dialog box.
STARTUPTODAY

and later
Stored In: Registry
1 TODAY, NEW, OPEN Integer Controls whether or not the Today window is used
or the Traditional startup dialog box.
0 - Displays Traditional startup dialog box
1 - Displays Today window
STATUSBAR

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
1 Integer Controls the display of the application and drawing
status bars.
0 - Both the application and drawing status
bars are hidden
1 - Only displays the application status bar
2 - Both the application and drawing status
bars are displayed
3 - Only displays the drawing status bar


STEPSIZE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
6.0000 3DWALK, 3DFLY Real Specifies the step increment that is used when
walking or flying through the drawing.
STEPSPERSEC

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
2.0000 3DWALK, 3DFLY Real Specifies the number of steps that are performed
when walking or flying through the drawing.
SUNPROPERTIESSTATE

Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 SUNPROPERTIES Integer Indicates the display status of the Sun Properties
palette.
0 - Sun Properties palette is not displayed
1 - Sun Properties palette is displayed
SUNSTATUS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 RENDER Integer Specifies if the sun system is enabled for the
current viewport.
0 - Off
1 - On
SURFTAB1

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
6 RULESURF, TABSURF,
REVSURF, EDGESURF
Integer Number of faces generated about a given path for
the commands RULESURF and TABSURF, and
controls the density of mesh created in the M
direction for the commands REVSURF and
EDGESURF.
SURFTAB2

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
6 REVSURF, EDGESURF Integer Controls the density of mesh created in the N
direction for the commands REVSURF and
EDGESURF.


SURFTYPE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
6 PEDIT Integer Type of surface-fitting used by the Smooth option
of PEDIT command.
5 - Quadratic B-spline surface
6 - Cubic B-spline surface
8 - Bezier surface
SURFU

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
6 PEDIT Integer Controls the density of surfaces in the M direction
when the Smooth option of the PEDIT command
and the U isolines density of surfaces.
SURFV

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
6 PEDIT Integer Controls the density of surfaces in the N direction
when the Smooth option of the PEDIT command
and the V isolines density of surfaces.
SYSCODEPAGE

ANSI_1252 String System code page, indicated by the operating
system.

In AutoCAD 2000 through 2002, the system code
page was indicated in the acad.xmx file.

In AutoCAD R14 and prior, the system code page
was indicated in the acad.xmf file.
TABLEINDICATOR

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting and
Modifying
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 TABLE, TABLEDIT Integer Controls whether the row numbers (along the left)
and column letters (above) are displayed for a
table object when the In-Place Text Editor is in
use.
0 - Off
1 - On


TABLETOOLBAR

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
2 Integer Controls the display of the Table toolbar when
creating or editing tables.
0 - Never displayed
1 - Table toolbar is always displayed after
selecting a table cell
2 - Table toolbar is not displayed after
selecting a table cell when the ribbon is
displayed
TABMODE

0 Integer Toggles the use of a tablet.
0 - Off
1 - On
TARGET

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 DVIEW 3D Point Location of the target in the current viewport.
TBCUSTOMIZE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
1 CUSTOMIZE Integer Controls whether the user is allowed to customize
tool palette groups and if the CUSTOMIZE option
should be available from the shortcut menu after a
toolbar is right-clicked over.
0 - Access to customization is disabled
1 - Access to customization is enabled
TDCREATE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Time/Date
Varies TIME Real Local time and date the drawing file was created.


TDINDWG

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Time/Date
Varies TIME Real Total time the drawing was open for editing.
TDUCREATE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Time/Date
Release(s): R2002 - 2009
Varies TIME Real Universal time and date that the drawing was
created.
TDUPDATE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Time/Date
Varies TIME Real Local time and date the drawing was last saved or
updated.
TDUSRTIMER

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Time/Date
Varies TIME Real User-elapsed timer.
TDUUPDATE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Time/Date
Release(s): R2002 - 2009
Varies TIME Real Universal time and date the drawing was last
saved or updated.


TEMPOVERRIDES

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
1 Integer Controls whether temporary override keys are
allowed or not. A temporary override key is a key
that when held down acts as a setting toggle to
turn it on or off based on its current setting. The
affect only lasts until the key is released.
Temporary override keys are created in the
Customize User Interface (CUI) editor.
0 - Off
1 - On
TEMPPREFIX

Stored In: Registry
name>\Local Settings\Temp\
PREFERENCES, OPTIONS String Directory used to store temporary files.
TEXTEVAL

Category: Drafting
0 TEXT, -TEXT Integer Determines how characters are evaluated when
sent through script files or AutoLISP.
0 - All responses to prompts for text strings
and attribute values are taken literally
1 - Text starting with an opening parenthesis
[(] or an exclamation mark (!) is evaluated
as an AutoLISP expression
TEXTFILL

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
1 Integer Controls if TrueType fonts appear filled when being
plotted or rendered.
0 - Text appears outlined
1 - Text appears filled


TEXTOUTPUTFILEFORMAT

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 OPTIONS Integer Controls the Unicode format used to generate the
output for plot and text window log files.
0 - ANSI
1 - UTF-8
2 - UTF-16LE
3 - UTF-16BE
TEXTQLTY

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
50 PLOT, PUBLISH Integer TrueType font resolutions for plotting. Valid range
is 0 - 100.
TEXTSIZE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.2000 (2.5000 for metric) TEXT, -TEXT, DTEXT Real Default height for new text objects.
TEXTSTYLE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Standard TEXT, -TEXT, DTEXT String Current text style that will be used as the default
text style when a new text object is created.
THICKNESS
Command Alias(es): TH

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000 Real Current object thickness used to create 3D objects.


THUMBSIZE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2009
1 VIEW Integer Specifies the size (in pixels) for thumbnail
previews.
0 - 64x64
1 - 128x128
2 - 256x256
TILEMODE
Command Alias(es): TI, TM

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1 MSPACE, PSPACE Integer Toggles between the Model tab and the last used
layout tab.

0 - Last used layout tab is activated
1 - Model tab is activated

AutoCAD R14 and prior
0 - Paper space is on
1 - Paper space is off
TIMEZONE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
-8000 SUNPROPERTIES,
GEOGRAPHICLOCATION
Enum Specifies the time zone that should be used by the
sun system. All the defined values are expressed
in hours and minutes from Greenwich Mean Time.
-12000 - International Date Line West
-11000 - Midway Island, Samoa
-10000 - Hawaii
-9000 - Alaska
-8000 - Pacific Time (US & Canada), Tijuana
-7000 - Arizona
-7000 - Chihuahua, La Paz, Mazatlan
-7000 - Mountain Time (US & Canada)
-6000 - Central America
-6000 - Central Time (US & Canada)
-6000 - Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey
-6000 - Saskatchewan
-5000 - Bogota, Lima, Quito


-5000 - Eastern Time (US & Canada)
-5000 - Indiana (East)
-4000 - Atlantic Time (Canada)
-4000 - Caracas, La Paz
-4000 - Santiago
-3000 - Newfoundland
-3000 - Brasilia
-3000 - Buenos Aires, Georgetown
-3000 - Greenland
-2000 - Mid-Atlantic
-1000 - Azores
-1000 - Cape Verde Is.
0000 - Casablanca, Monrovia
0000 - Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon
+1000 - Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome,
Stockholm
+1000 - Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest,
Ljubljana
+1000 - Brussels, Madrid, Copenhagen, Paris
+1000 - Sarajevo, Skopje, Warsaw, Zagreb
+1000 - West Central Africa
+2000 - Athens, Beirut, Istanbul, Minsk
+2000 - Bucharest
+2000 - Cairo
+2000 - Harare, Pretoria
+2000 - Helsinki, Kyiv, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius
+2000 - Jerusalem
+3000 - Baghdad
+3000 - Kuwait, Riyadh
+3000 - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd
+3000 - Nairobi


+3000 - Tehran
+4000 - Abu Dhabi, Muscat
+4000 - Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan
+4300 - Kabul
+5000 - Ekaterinburg
+5000 - Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent
+5300 - Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi
+5450 - Kathmandu
+6000 - Almaty, Novosibirsk
+6000 - Astana, Dhaka
+6000 - Sri Jayawardenepura
+6300 - Rangoon
+7000 - Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta
+7000 - Krasnoyarsk
+8000 - Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong,
Urumqi
+8000 - Irkutsk, Ulaan Bataar
+8000 - Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
+8000 - Perth
+8000 - Taipei
+9000 - Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo
+9000 - Seoul
+9000 - Yakutsk
+9300 - Adelaide
+9300 - Darwin
+10000 - Brisbane
+10000 - Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
+10000 - Guam, Port Moresby
+10000 - Hobart
+10000 - Vladivostok
+11000 - Magadan, Solomon Is., New Caledonia


+12000 - Auckland, Wellington
+12000 - Fiji, Kamchatka, Marshall Is.
+13000 - Nuku'alofa
TOOLTIPMERGE

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
0 Integer Controls whether drafting tooltips are combined
into a single tooltip.
0 - Off
1 - On
TOOLTIPS

Stored In: Registry
1 TOOLBAR, OPTIONS Integer Toggles the display of tooltips for toolbars.
0 - Off
1 - On
TPSTATE

Release(s): R2004 - 2009
0 TOOLPALETTES,
TOOLPALETTESCLOSE
Integer Indicates the display status of the Tool Palettes
window.
0 - Tool Palettes window is not active
1 - Tool Palettes window is active
TRACEWID

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0500 TRACE Real Specifies the default trace width.


TRACKPATH

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 DSETTINGS Integer Controls the display of the alignment paths for
polar and object snap 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

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
1 TRAYSETTINGS Integer Controls whether notification icons can be
displayed in the status bar area.
0 - Icons do not appear in the status bar area
1 - Icons are allowed to be displayed in the
status bar area
TRAYNOTIFY

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
1 TRAYSETTINGS Integer Controls whether notification balloons are
displayed for the running services in the status bar
area.
0 - No notification balloons are displayed
1 - Notification balloons are displayed
TRAYTIMEOUT

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
0 TRAYSETTINGS Integer Controls the time interval that notification balloons
are displayed. Valid range 0 - 10.


TREEDEPTH

Stored In: Drawing
3020 Integer Maximum number of times the index can be
divided into branches.
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

Stored In: Registry
10000000 Long Limits memory consumption during drawing
regeneration.
TRIMMODE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Editing
1 CHAMFER, FILLET Integer Specifies if selected edges for the CHAMFER or
FILLET commands are trimmed.
0 - Selected edges are not trimmed
1 - Selected edges are trimmed to the
endpoints of that create the chamfer or
fillet
TSPACEFAC

Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1.0000 MTEXT, MTEDIT Real Specifies the line spacing distance measured as a
factor of the text height for new multiline text
objects. Valid range is 0.25 - 4.0.


TSPACETYPE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 MTEXT, MTEDIT Integer Specifies the type of line spacing used when
creating new multiline text objects.
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.
TSTACKALIGN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 MTEXT, MTEDIT Integer Specifies the vertical alignment of text that is
stacked.
0 - Aligned from the bottom
1 - Aligned from the center
2 - Aligned from the top
TSTACKSIZE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
70 MTEXT, MTEDIT Integer Specifies the percentage at which the stacked text
fraction's height is relative to the current height of
the selected text. Valid range is 25 - 125.
UCSAXISANG

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
90 UCS, UCSMAN Integer Contains the angle when rotating the User
Coordinate System (UCS) around the X, Y, or Z
axis options of the UCS command. Valid values
are 5, 10, 15, 18, 22.5, 30, 45, 90 and 180.
UCSBASE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
World UCS, UCSMAN String Contains the name of the User Coordinate System
(UCS) that defines the origin and orientation of
orthographic UCS settings.


UCSDETECT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 Create Commands Integer Specifies if dynamic UCS can be used.
0 - Disabled
1 - Enabled
UCSFOLLOW

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 Integer Plan view is generated whenever your drawing
changes UCS.
0 - A change to the UCS does not affect the
view
1 - A change to the UCS causes a change to
the plan view of the new UCS that is
created for the current viewport
UCSICON

Stored In: Drawing
3 Integer UCS icon display
0 - UCS icon is not displayed
1 - UCS icon is displayed
2 - If the UCS icon is displayed, it is displayed
at the UCS origin if possible or it appears
in the lower-left corner of the drawing
window
3 - On and displayed at the Origin
UCSNAME

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
String Name of the activate coordinate system for the
current viewport in the current space.
UCSORG

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 3D Point Origin of the current coordinate system for the
current viewport in the current space.


UCSORTHO

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 Integer Specifies whether changing an orthographic view
causes the related orthographic UCS setting to be
restored or not.
0 - UCS setting doesn't change when an
orthographic view is restored
1 - UCS setting is restored when an
orthographic view is restored
UCSVIEW

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 Integer Controls whether the current UCS is saved with a
named view.
0 - UCS setting is not saved with Named View
1 - UCS setting is saved when creating a
Named View
UCSVP

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 Integer Controls whether the UCS in active viewports
remains fixed or changes to reflect the UCS of the
current viewport.
0 - Unlocked; UCS is updated to reflect the
UCS of the current viewport
1 - Locked; UCS is stored in the viewport, and
is controlled independently of the UCS of
the current viewport
UCSXDIR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1.0000,0.0000,0.0000 3D Point X direction of the current User Coordinate System
(UCS).
UCSYDIR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0.0000,1.0000,0.0000 3D Point Y direction of the current User Coordinate System
(UCS).


UNDOCTL

53 UNDO, U, OPTIONS Integer Specifies the current Undo state.
0 - UNDO is off
1 - UNDO is on
2 - Only one undo is allowed
4 - Auto option is on
8 - A group is currently active
16 - Successive zoom and pan operations are
grouped into a single action
UNDOMARKS

0 UNDO, U Integer Total number of marks current in the Undo control.
UNDOONDISK

and later
Stored In: Drawing
Release(s): R13
1 UNDO, U Integer Used to control if the UNDO file is kept on the hard
drive or in RAM.
0 - Undo file is kept in RAM
1 - Undo file is kept on the hard drive
UNITMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
0 Integer Unit display format.
0 - Fractional, feet and inches, and survery's
angles are displayed using a space
delimiter
1 - Fractional, feet and inches, and survery's
angles are displayed not using a space
delimiter, but instead a dash is substitued
for a space


UPDATETHUMBNAIL

Stored In: Drawing
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
15 Integer Controls whether thumbnails will be created for
Sheet Views, Model Views or Sheets.

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

Stored In: Drawing
0 Integer Total of five variables that can be used to store
and recall values of the Integer type.
USERR1 - 5

Stored In: Drawing
0.0000 Real Total of five variables that can be used to store
and recall values of the Real type.
USERS1 - 5

String Total of five variables that can be used to store
and recall values from of the String type.

Note: The values stored in these variables are
only available while the drawing is open.


VIEWCTR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Varies RTPAN, RTZOOM, ZOOM,
PAN
3D Point Center of view in the current viewport.
VIEWDIR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
PAN
3D Point View direction in the current viewport.
VIEWMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0 (1 in 3D templates) Integer View mode for the current viewport.
0 - Turned off
1 - Perspective view active
2 - Front clip on
4 - Back clip on
8 - UCS Follow on
16 - Front clip not at eye
VIEWSIZE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
PAN
Real Height of the current view in the current viewport.
VIEWTWIST

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0.0000 DVIEW Real View twist angle for the current viewport.
VISRETAIN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
1 Integer Specifies the visibility of layers in Xref files.
0 - Xref definitions in the current drawing take
precedence


1 - Current drawing definitions take
precedence over the Xref
VPLAYEROVERRIDES

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
0 Integer Indicates if the current viewport contains at least
one layer with property overrides.
0 - No layer property overrides exist
1 - Layer property overrides exist
VPLAYEROVERRIDESMOD
E

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2008 - 2009
1 Integer Controls if the layer property overrides assigned to
a viewport are displayed and used when plotting.
0 - Layer property overrides are ignored
1 - Layer property overrides are used
VPMAXIMIZEDSTATE

Category: Display
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
0 VPMAX, VPMIN Integer Indicates the current state of a Viewport being
maximized or not.
0 - Viewport is not maximized
1 - Viewport is maximized
VSBACKGROUNDS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies if the background is displayed with the
visual style in the current viewport.
0 - Off
1 - On
VSEDGECOLOR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
ByEntity VISUALSTYLES String Specifies the color used for the edges in the visual
style for the current viewport. The color can be
expressed as an ACI color using the numbers 1 -
255, ByLayer (256), ByBlock (0), ByEntity (257), as
well as a True Color in the format of
RGB:000,000,000.


VSEDGEJITTER

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
-2 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the level of jitter that lines appear to use
for the current visual style in the current viewport.
Jitter helps to give an object the appearance of a
sketched look that was done with a pencil. Jitter
can be disabled by change the value specified
from a positive to a negative value.
1 - Low
2 - Medium
3 - High
VSEDGEOVERHANG

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
-6 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies how far lines extend past their
intersections, to improve the hand drawn look to a
drawing. Valid range is 1 to 100 pixels. Overhang
can be disabled by change the value specified
from a positive to a negative value.
VSEDGES

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the type of edges that are displayed in
the current viewport.
0 - No edges
1 - Isolines
2 - Facet edges
VSEDGESMOOTH

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the angle when to display crease edges.


VSFACECOLORMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies how face color is calculated.
0 - Normal, no face color modifier is applied
1 - Monochrome, faces are displayed using
the color specified by the
VSMONOCOLOR system variable
2 - Tint, faces are displayed in shades of
colors with changes to the hue and
saturation values based on the color
specified by the VSMONOCOLOR system
variable
3 - Desaturate, face color is based on a
reduction by 30 percent of the saturation
property of the current color of the face
VSFACEHIGHLIGHT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
-30 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies how specular highlights on faces with no
material assigned appears in the current viewport.
Valid range is -100 to 100, a larger results in a
larger highlight. Faces that have a material
assigned to them are unaffected, when the system
variable VSMATERIALMODE is turned on.
VSFACEOPACITY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
-60 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the transparency value of faces in the
current viewport. Valid range is -100 to 100. A
value close to 0 makes the faces appear more
transparent, while closer to 100 makes them
appear more opaque. 0 makes the face appear
fully transparent, while 100 makes the face appear
fully opaque. Transparency can be disabled by
change the value specified from a positive to a
negative value.


VSFACESTYLE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies how face color is calculated.
0 - No style is applied
1 - Real, face appears close to how they
would appear when the scene is rendered
2 - Gooch, warm and cool colors are using
instead of light and dark colors to enhance
the way faces that might appear dark due
to shadows
VSHALOGAP

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the value for the halo gap that should be
used in the visual style for the current viewport.
VSHIDEPRECISION

Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the accuracy to be used when generating
hidden and shaded views in the visual style for the
current viewport.
0 - Single precision, less memory is used
1 - Double precision, more memory is used
VSINTERSECTIONCOLOR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
7 VISUALSTYLES String Specifies the color used for intersection polylines
in the visual style for the current viewport. The
color can be expressed as an ACI color using the
numbers 1 - 255, ByLayer (256), ByBlock (0),
ByEntity (257), as well as a True Color in the
format of RGB:000,000,000.
VSINTERSECTIONEDGES

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the display of the intersection edges in
the visual style for the current viewport.
0 - Off
1 - On


VSINTERSECTIONLTYPE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the linetype for intersection lines in the
visual style for the current viewport.
0 - Off
1 - Solid
2 - Dashed
3 - Dotted
4 - Short Dash
5 - Medium Dash
6 - Long Dash
11 - Sparse Dot
VSISOONTOP

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies if isolines are displayed over shaded
objects in the visual style for the current viewport.
0 - Off
1 - On
VSLIGHTINGQUALITY

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the quality of light used in the current
viewport.
0 - Shows facets
1 - Shows smooth/no facets
VSMATERIALMODE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies if materials are displayed for the current
viewport.
0 - Materials are not displayed
1 - Materials are displayed, but textures are
not
2 - Materials and textures are displayed


VSMAX

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Varies 3D Point Upper-right corner of the current viewport's virtual
screen.
VSMIN

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Varies 3D Point Lower-left corner of the current viewport's virtual
screen.
VSMONOCOLOR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
255,255,255 VISUALSTYLES String Specifies the color used for monochrome and tint
display of faces in the visual style for the current
viewport. The color can be expressed as an ACI
color using the numbers 1 - 255, ByLayer (256),
ByBlock (0), ByEntity (257), as well as a True
Color in the format of RGB:000,000,000.
VSOBSCUREDCOLOR

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
ByEntity VISUALSTYLES String Specifies the color used for obscured lines in the
visual style for the current viewport. The color can
be expressed as an ACI color using the numbers 1
- 255, ByLayer (256), ByBlock (0), ByEntity (257),
as well as a True Color in the format of
RGB:000,000,000.
VSOBSCUREDEDGES

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the display of the obscured (hidden)
edges in the visual style for the current viewport.
0 - Off
1 - On


VSOBSCUREDLTYPE

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
1 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the linetype for obscured lines in the
visual style for the current viewport.
0 - Off
1 - Solid
2 - Dashed
3 - Dotted
4 - Short Dash
5 - Medium Dash
6 - Long Dash
11 - Sparse Dot
VSSHADOWS

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies if shadows are displayed for the current
visual style.
0 - Shadows are not displayed
1 - Only ground shadows are displayed
2 - Full shadows are displayed

Full shadows are only available when
hardware acceleration is enabled.
VSSILHEDGES

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the display of silhouette edges of 3D
solid objects in the visual style for the current
viewport.
0 - Off
1 - On


VSSILHWIDTH

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
5 VISUALSTYLES Integer Specifies the width of silhouette edges in pixels for
the visual style of the current viewport. Valid range
is 1 to 25.
VSSTATE

Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 VISUALSTYLES Integer Indicates the display status of the Visual Styles
Manager palette.
0 - Visual Styles Manager palette is not active
1 - Visual Styles Manager palette is active
VTDURATION

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
PAN, VIEW
Integer Specifies how long the smooth view transition
takes from start to finish. The value specified is in
milliseconds and must be within the range of 0 -
5000. The higher the number the longer it takes to
perform the pan/zoom or view change operation.
VTENABLE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
PAN, VIEW
Integer Specifies when panning and zooming, view angle
changes and scripts utilize smooth view
transitions. The valid range is 0 - 7.
0 - Off
1 - Panning and zooming only
2 - View angle changes only
3 - Panning/zooming and view angle changes
4 - During scripts only
5 - Panning/zooming and scripts
6 - View angle changes and scripts
7 - Panning/zooming, view angle changes
and scripts


VTFPS

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
PAN, VIEW
Real Specifies the minimum speed of a smooth view
transition. The value specified is in frames per
second. If the transition can't maintain this speed,
an instant transition is performed. The value must
be within the range of 1.0 - 30.0.
WHIPARC

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 Integer Specifies how circles and arcs are displayed.
0 - Circles and arcs are not displayed smooth
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

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
1 Integer Specifies how AutoCAD will use additional
processors on the machine. This system variable
has no effect on machines with single processors.
0 - No multithreading is used
1 - Regeneration only is carried out by
multiple processors
2 - Redraw only is carried out by multiple
processors
3 - Regeneration and Redraw are carried out
by multiple processors
WINDOWAREACOLOR

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
implied selection
Integer Controls the fill color used during a window or
window polygon selection. Valid values include 1 -
255.


WMFBKGND

Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
0 EXPORT, WMFOUT Integer Controls how the background of a WMF file or
Copy Clip is created and displayed in other
applications.
0 - Background is created as transparent
1 - Background is the same color as AutoCAD
background
WMFFOREGND

Category: Display
0 EXPORT, WMFOUT Integer Controls how the foreground color assignment to
AutoCAD objects of a WMF file or Copy Clip is
created and displayed in other applications.
0 - Foreground and background colors are
swapped in order to ensure that the
foreground color is darker than the
background color.
1 - Foreground and background colors are
swapped in order to ensure that the
foreground color is lighter than the
background color.
WORLDUCS

Category: Display
1 Integer World Coordinate System (WCS) matches with
User Coordinate System (UCS)
0 - UCS doesn't match WCS
1 - UCS matches WCS
WORLDVIEW

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
1 DVIEW, VPOINT Integer UCS changes to the WCS during DVIEW or
VPOINT commands.
0 - UCS is used
1 - WCS is used
WRITESTAT

1 Integer Determines the state in which a drawing is opened.
(For R12 & R13 use DWGWRITE)
0 - Read only
1 - Read and write


WSCURRENT

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2006 - 2009
AutoCAD Classic WSSETTINGS String Returns the current Workspace and allows you to
specify a Workspace name to set it current.
XCLIPFRAME

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Display
0 PLOT, PUBLISH Integer Toggles the visibility of the clipping boundaries for
Xrefs.
0 - Boundary is not visible
1 - Boundary is visible
XEDIT

Stored In: Drawing
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
1 REFEDIT Integer Specifies whether or not the current drawing can
be edited in-place (REFEDIT) when being
externally referenced by another drawing.
0 - Drawing can't be edited in-place
1 - Drawing can be edited in-place
XFADECTL

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
50 REFEDIT Integer Specifies how much the surroundings of the block
or drawing that is being edited in-place is faded
out. Valid range is from 0 - 90.
XLOADCTL

Stored In: Registry
2 XREF, -XREF,
EXTERNALREFERENCES
Integer Controls Xref demand loading on or off, and
controls if the referenced drawing is opened or a
copy of the drawing.
0 - Demand-load is off and the referenced
drawing is loaded
1 - Demand-load is on, and the referenced
drawings are loaded and locked
2 - Demand-load is on, and copies of the
referenced drawings are loaded and
locked


XLOADPATH

Stored In: Registry
XREF, -XREF,
EXTERNALREFERENCES
String Path used to store temporary copies of demand-
loaded Xrefs.
XREFCTL

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
0 XREF, -XREF,
EXTERNALREFERENCES
Integer Specifies whether AutoCAD creates an external
reference log (XLG).
0 - Xref logs are not created
1 - Xref logs are created
XREFNOTIFY

Stored In: Registry
Release(s): R2004 - 2009
2 XREF, -XREF,
EXTERNALREFERENCES
Integer Controls the notifications for the Xrefs that are
referenced to the open file.
1 - Enables the Xref notification system.
Activates the status bar tray icon when a
drawing is opened that contains Xrefs. If
the drawing that is being opened is
missing an Xref, the icon is changed to
include a yellow alert exclamation symbol
(!).
2 - Enables the Xref notification system.
Includes the same as value 1 and also
includes the displaying of balloon
messages.
XREFTYPE

Stored In: Registry
Category: Drafting
Release(s): R2005 - 2009
0 XREF, -XREF,
EXTERNALREFERENCES
Integer Controls the default reference type used when
attaching an external reference.
0 - Attachment
1 - Overlay


ZOOMFACTOR

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2000 - 2009
60 Intellimouse Wheel Integer The factor in which is used to zoom in the
AutoCAD drawing when rolling the mouse wheel
forward\backwards. Valid range is from 3 to 100
percent.
ZOOMWHEEL

Stored In: Registry
Category: Display
Release(s): R2007 - 2009
0 Intellimouse Wheel Integer Toggles the direction you scroll the mouse wheel
in to zoom in and out transparently.
0 - Zooming in is performed by scrolling the
mouse wheel forward and backward to
zoom out
1 - Zooming in is performed by scrolling the
mouse wheel backward and forward to
zoom out
Total System Variables: 700

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