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Variable Recommended Value What It Controls

ATTDISP On Displays the attributes in blocks you've placed in your drawing

plant labels).

ATTIPE 1 (On) Controls which Text Formatting toolbar is displayed with the in
editor for modifying multiline attributes. A value of 1 (recomm
displays the full Text Formatting toolbar with the in-place edito
access to full text editing tools when editing attributes. A value
of 0 displays the abbreviated Text Formatting toolbar with the i
editor.

CECOLOR ByLayer Allows you to draw by layer (by color).

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DIMASSOC 1 Controls whether dimension objects (such as Site and Detail D

are associative. A value of 1 (on) causes dimensions to be place
object rather than as exploded linework.

FILEDIA 1 Controls whether dialog boxes display within CAD. A value of

dialog boxes, while a value of 0 causes dialog boxes not to disp

FILETABTHUMBHOVER According to your preference. This variable is set to 1 by default, but set it to 0 if you don't w
system to change tabs when hovering over the file preview tabs
of the workspace.

HPDLGMODE 1 Controls whether the Hatch and Gradient and Hatch Edit dia
display within CAD. A value of 1 causes these dialog boxes to

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IMAGEFRAME According to your preference. Determines whether image framing is enabled or disabled in yo
and when you plot. A value of 0 will make image frames invisi
of 1 will make image frames visible in your drawings and when
value of 2 will make image frames visible in your drawings bu
when you plot.

ISAVEBAK 1 A value of 1 allows CAD to create a backup file each time you
more information, see our Autosave article.

LOCKUI According to your preference. A value of 0 allows you to move the tool panels (e.g.,
the Properties or Layers panel) and the ribbon panels to the lo
your choice. A value of 1 locks the ribbon panels into place. A
of 15 locks both types of panels into place. (See our Unable to
Panels article for images and more details.) A value of 13 preve
from resizing your dialog boxes unless you have the CTRL key
(See our Unable to Resize Dialog Boxes page.)

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MBUTTONPAN 1 Allows you to pan using the middle wheel of your mouse.

MEASUREMENT Depending on the system of measurement you're Set this variable to 0 for a drawing where you're using the Impe
using. measurement system (i.e., inches or feet), or 1 for a drawing wh
using the metric measurement system (i.e., meters or centimete

MTEXTED NONE (Internal) Setting this variable to anything other than NONE may interfer
ability to place text in your drawing.

PICKADD According to your preference. Controls your ability to select multiple objects. A value of 0 me
your last selection will be valid. A value of 1 (the most commo
means you can keep adding objects to the current selection. A v

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similar to 1, except the objects will remain selected when the Select
command is no longer active.

PICKFIRST 1 Controls the selection of objects in your drawing before or afte

command. A value of 1 allows you to select objects either befo
you start a command.

SAVEFIDELITY 0 Retains the visual fidelity of annotative objects so they can be s

used in AutoCAD products from 2007 or earlier. Having this sy
variable enabled can cause delays in saving drawing files and c
CAD to crash. A value of 0 turns this variable off.

SECURELOAD 0 or 2, according to your preference. Enables or disables the Unsigned Executable File dialog box,
safeguard against loading executable files from an untrusted so
value of 1 or 2 enables the dialog box. A value of 0 disables it.

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Note: If you have SECURELOAD set to anything other than 0, you may
need to add paths manually to your Trusted Paths in order to get Land F/X
to load and update without issue. You'll have some added protection against
untrusted site, but you'll also have to carry out some extra steps.

More information

SELECTIONCYCLING -2 A value of 0 turns Selection Cycling off. The Selection Cycling

opens a selection dialog box each time you take actions such as
Land F/X object or piping to irrigation equipment. Although it
helpful tool in extremely complex drawings with many overlap
objects, it's not a necessary tool in landscape or irrigation desig
tedium of having to close this dialog box repeatedly – turn Sele
Cycling off.

STARTUP According to your preference. Controls which screen you see when you start CAD – the Start
box, a blank drawing, or the CAD startup screen, which shows
images of your recently open drawings. For details, see
our STARTUP System Variable article.

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TRANSPARENCYDISPLAY 1 Allows you to view transparent objects. A value of 1 enables th

For more information on viewing transparency in your drawing
our Transparent Objects article.

VISRETAIN 1 Affects the saving of changes made to Xref-dependent layers in

drawing. When this value is set to 1, changes made in the curre
to layers from Xrefs (such as the freezing of layers or the chang
colors) will remain in place when the drawing is saved and clos

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