Autocad system variables 2009

Stores the current date and time in Modified Julian Date format. Specifies a default layer for new hatches and fills. Specifies a drawing-units value for automatic scaling of blocks, images, or xrefs when inserted or attached to a drawing. Specifies the lighting units for the drawing.

Specifies which folders have permission to load and execute files that contain code. Stores the local time and date the drawing was created. Stores the total editing time, which is the total elapsed time between saves of the current drawing. Stores the universal time and date that the drawing was created. Stores the universal time and date of the last update or save. Rotates the view in 3D space, but constrained to horizontal and vertical orbit only.

Saves an animation of a camera moving or panning in a 3D model. Defines the type, color, effects and position of the background for a named view. Creates a free spotlight which is a spotlight without a specified target. Creates a free web light which is a web light without a specified target. Controls the page layout, plotting device, paper size, and other settings for each new layout.

Plots a drawing to a plotter, printer, or file. Creates a point light that radiates light in all directions from its location. Creates a photorealistic or realistically shaded image of a 3D solid or surface model. Displays the Render Presets Manager palette and manages the render presets of a drawing.

Displays the Render window without starting a rendering operation. Creates a section object that acts as a cutting plane through 3D objects and point clouds.

Controls the security restrictions for running executable files in AutoCAD. Creates a spotlight that emits a directional cone of light.

Sets the origin and orientation of the current user coordinate system UCS. Saves and restores named model space views, layout views, and preset views. Creates multiple viewports in model space or in a layout paper space.

Creates a precise 3D representation of the light intensity distribution of a light source. Indicates whether the Render Presets Manager palette is open or closed. Sets the maximum number of faces permitted for mesh objects. When a drawing is in a Perspective view, starts the interactive 3D view and enables you to drag the view horizontally and vertically. Packages the current sheet set files for storage. Inserts references to external files such as other drawings, raster images, and underlays.

Crops selected objects such as blocks, external references, images, viewports, and underlays to a specified boundary. Converts drawing format version for selected drawing files. Packages a set of files for Internet transmission.

Assigns geographic location information to a drawing file. Changes the north direction and position of the geographic marker in model space, without changing its latitude and longitude.

Provides access to display performance-related options. Controls the brightness, contrast, and fade values of images. Removes duplicate or overlapping lines, arcs, and polylines. Inserts an indexed rcs single scan or rcp multiple scan project file from Autodesk ReCap in the current drawing. Removes unused items, such as block definitions and layers, from the drawing. Specifies password or digital signature options for a drawing file.

Displays the Welcome window when you start the program. Determines which 3D object snaps are enabled. Adds control of 3D object snaps for point clouds. Determines whether the dimension style and layer of a continued or baseline dimension is inherited from the dimension that is being continued. Layer of continued dimension is inherited. Controls the display of frames for all images, map images, underlays, clipped xrefs, and wipeout objects.

Controls whether image frames are displayed and plotted. Controls whether objects snaps are suppressed on hatch objects, geometry with negative Z values, or dimension extension lines.

End points of dimension extension lines are ignored by default. Controls automatic windowing for object selection. Adds Lasso window and crossing selection, enabled by default. Controls whether a legacy point cloud is regenerated automatically after manipulation, panning, zooming, or orbiting.

Applies only to legacy pre-AutoCAD point cloud objects. Controls whether the point cloud bounding box is displayed. Added an option to display the bounding box only when the point cloud is selected. Specifies amount of memory in megabytes that the internal processing engine will use for point clouds.

Value can now be changed to an integer expressing a number of megabytes. Controls the percentage of points displayed for all legacy point clouds in the drawing view. This displays the most relevant User's Guide topic. Click the Quick Reference tab if the tab is not displayed, click one of the subtopics.

Listed are all associated commands and system variables. For example, enter ARC. Press F1. Click the Quick Reference tab. With about system variables, you definitely want to narrow down the results like this! Here's another trick. At the Command prompt, enter DIM. Press Esc to exit the Dim prompt. San Rafael, California. Message 7 of Message 8 of I just found this out today. Its a list and the their values in the drawing. Then type? Hit enter again when the astrix comes up.

A dialog will appear with a list. It only displays so many at a time so you have to keep hitting enter to get through all of them. You can't scroll through the whole list, but just keep hitting enter until the end. Message 9 of Message 10 of Very interesting. Now, if we had a script to redirect that to a file or is it already listed in ACAD?

Message 11 of How do you make arc length dimensions extension lines radially to the arc? It will always be orthogonally unless the angle is over If under 90, it shows ext. The dimension arc length command does however show the correct length of the curve.

Im using Civil3d Kindly help me on how to fix this. I remember using this variable which was changed on, off. How can i put 2 arrows with a line for the diameter inside a circle but still have the leader line and text outside?

When trying to move a dim by the text only the text moves and not the line. I know how to fix it 1 at a time but is there a way to reset something to fix all dims at once without clicking on every dim. I have the same issue. I believe it is a bug to AutoCAD.

I use AutoCAD When I move or rotate a drawing with dimensions on it, dimensions go wherever they please, for no reason and without a patern. Copying the drawing works ok, so this way i bypass moving bug. For rotation, the only way is to make the drawing a block. Muchas gracias. Name required. Email required. View Results. The DIM Variables and the release they were introduced. Plus a quick outline of what they do.

For information on wild-card searches, see Wild-Card Characters Reference. System variables are settings that control how certain commands work. Note: Some system variables accept negative values either to turn off the setting or to signify a special case. You can examine or change a system variable's setting transparently, that is, while using another command; however, new values may not take effect until the interrupted command ends.