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Release 12    June 1992
New System Variables -- R12

This section describes the new system variables in AutoCAD Releases 12. Values for most system variables are expressed relative to the current UCS.

AUDITCTL

Controls whether AUDIT log files (ADT files) are written

CIRCLERAD

The default circle radius. If negative, the absolute value is used

CMDACTIVE

A bit code that shows the active status of commands and dialog-boxes. If nonzero, a command or dialog box is active

CMDDIA

Controls whether dialog boxes are used with the PLOT command

CMDNAMES

The active command including any transparent command

DBMOD

A bit code showing the drawing database modification status. If nonzero, the drawing database has been modified

DONUTID

The default donut inside diameter; may be zero. If negative, the absolute value is used

DONUTOD

The default donut outside diameter. Must be nonzero; if negative, the absolute value is used. If DONUTID is larger than DONUTOD, the two values are swapped by next command

DWGCODEPAGE

The current drawing code page

DWGTITLED

Indicates drawing title status. Either the drawing has a name (1) or it doesn't (0)

DWGWRITE

Controls the ability to write to the current drawing's file. If it is 0 (zero), you can edit the current drawing but you cannot update the drawing's file. If it is 1 (one), you can update the drawing's file

GRIPBLOCK

Controls the assignment of grips on entities within a block

GRIPCOLOR

The color of nonselected grips; drawn as a box outline

GRIPHOT

The color of selected grips; drawn as a filled box

GRIPS

Turns entity grips on and off. With selection set grips, you can move, stretch, rotate scale, and mirror entities

GRIPSIZE

The size of box drawn to display a grip

HPANG

The default hatch pattern angle

HPDOUBLE

The default hatch pattern doubling for "U" user-defined patterns

HPNAME

The default hatch pattern name and hatching style

HPSCALE

The default hatch pattern scale factor

HPSPACE

The default hatch pattern line spacing for "U" user-defined patterns

INSNAME

The default block name for DDINSERT or INSERT command

LOGINNAME

The user's login name

MACROTRACE

Controls tracing of macro expressions. This is a hidden variable (not listed by ordinary SETVAR ?)

MENUCTL

Controls the automatic swapping of the screen menu when a command is entered

MODEMACRO

Controls the text in AutoCAD status line. You can specify text such as the drawing name, date and time, or special modes

OFFSETDIST

The default offset distance

PICKADD

Controls how entities are added and removed from a selection set. When selecting individual entities, you can either add entities to a selection set or make the current pick the selection set

PICKAUTO

Controls automatic windowing when the Select objects: prompt appears. If Auto is not the default mode, it can be selected using the keyword Auto

PICKDRAG

Controls how a selection window is created. To specify the diagonal corners, you can either use two clicks, or click and drag

PICKFIRST

Controls how entity selection works so that you can select objects first, and then use an edit/inquiry command

PLINEGEN

Controls Polyline linetype elaboration around vertices

PLINEWID

The default polyline width

PLOTID

Changes the default plotter, based on its assigned description

PLOTTER

Changes the default plotter, based on its assigned number

POLYSIDES

The default number of sides for the POLYGON command

PSLTSCALE

Controls paper-space linetype scaling

PSPROLOG

Specifies the PostScript prolog that AutoCAD uses with the PSOUT command

PSQUALITY

Controls the rendering quality of an imported PostScript file

RE-INIT

Controls the initialization of the I/O ports, digitizer, display, plotter, and acad.pgp file

SAVEFILE

The current auto-save file

SAVENAME

The filename you save the drawing to

SAVETIME

The automatic-save time interval, in minutes

SCREENBOXES

The number of boxes in the screen menu area of the graphics area

SCREENMODE

A bit code indicating the graphics/text state of the -AutoCAD display (graphics mode and dual-screen configuration status)

SHPNAME

The default shape name

SORTENTS

A bit code that specifies classes of oct-tree traversal operations that should return entities sorted in database (entity creation) order

SYSCODEPAGE

The current system code page

TABMODE

Controls the use of Tablet mode

TREEDEPTH

A four-digit code that specifies the number of times the tree-structured spatial index may divide into branches. This affects how quickly AutoCAD searches the database

UNDOCTL

A bit code that indicates the state of the UNDO feature

UNDOMARKS

The number of marks that have been placed in the UNDO control stream by the UNDO command's Mark option

USERS1-5

Five string variables; accepts embedded spaces

XREFCTL

Controls whether external reference log files (XGL files) are written