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Monday, January 9, 2012

What AutoCAD Variables do You Set in your ACAD.LSP file?

A quick question if you have the time to answer. I am working on something and I want to get input from the best CAD readers on the internet.

What AutoCAD Variables do You Set in your ACAD.LSP file? or the ACADDOC.LSP file?

I want to know how other people use these two files.

4 comments:

Jeff Thomas IIIJan 9, 2012 10:35 AM
I don't agree with all of these but it works best for our company.

(SETVAR "STARTUP" 1)
(SETVAR "ISAVEPERCENT" 50)
(SETVAR "UCSFOLLOW" 0)
(SETVAR "CMDECHO" 0)
(SETVAR "HPNAME" "SOLID")
(SETVAR "SORTENTS" 3)
(SETVAR "FILEDIA" 1)
(SETVAR "CMDDIA" 1)
(SETVAR "TEXTFILL" 1)
(SETVAR "BACKGROUNDPLOT" 2)
(SETVAR "XLOADCTL" 2)
(SETVAR "UCSICON" 1)
(SETVAR "SAVETIME" 5)
(SETVAR "ANNOALLVISIBLE" 1)
(SETVAR "SELECTIONANNODISPLAY" 0)
(SETVAR "LAYEREVAL" 0)
(SETVAR "LAYERNOTIFY" 4)
(SETVAR "HIDEXREFSCALES" 1)
(SETVAR "REMEMBERFOLDERS" 1)
(SETVAR "3DCONVERSIONMODE" 0)
(SETVAR "PUBLISHCOLLATE" 0)
(SETVAR "VISRETAIN" 1)
(SETVAR "DIMASSOC" 1)
(SETVAR "LAYERDLGMODE" 0)
(SETVAR "SNAPMODE" 0)
(SETVAR "DYNMODE" 0)
(SETVAR "QPMODE" 0)
(SETVAR "INDEXCTL" 2)
(SETVAR "FIELDEVAL" 23)
(SETVAR "LAYOUTREGENCTL" 0)
(SETVAR "TRAYNOTIFY" 1)
(SETVAR "ACADLSPASDOC" 1)
(SETVAR "BACKGROUNDPLOT" 0)
(SETVAR "MAXSORT" 2000)
(SETVAR "LEGACYCTRLPICK" 1)
(SETVAR "FILLMODE" 1)
(SETVAR "PROXYGRAPHICS" 1)
(SETVAR "MENUBAR" 0)
(SETVAR "STATUSBAR" 2)
(SETVAR "SELECTIONCYCLING" 0)
(SETVAR "HPASSOC" 1)
(setvar "modemacro" (getvar "cprofile"))
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R.K. McSwainJan 9, 2012 10:52 AM
Definitely NONE that are saved in the drawing.

(a) I want DBMOD = 0 after an opened drawing is initialized.

(b) It makes no sense anyway since ACAD.LSP is only applied at application startup, not drawing load (unless of course you are still using ACADLSPASDOC, 13 years later....)

Some that I set...
APBOX
BACKGROUNDPLOT
EXPERT
ISAVEBAK
ISAVEPERCENT
LOGFILEPATH
LOGFILEMODE
MTJIGSTRING
POLARANG
TRAYICONS
TRAYNOTIFY
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Simon WeelJan 9, 2012 12:40 PM
In 'acad.lsp':
(setvar "attdia" 1)
(setvar "attreq" 1)
(setvar "BACKGROUNDPLOT" 0)
(setvar "CENTERMT" 1)
(setvar "cmddia" 1)
(setvar "DBLCLKEDIT" 1)
(setvar "FULLPLOTPATH" 0)
(setvar "HPASSOC" 1)
(setvar "HPGAPTOL" 10)
(setvar "isavepercent" 0)
(setvar "LAYERFILTERALERT" 2)
(setvar "LAYOUTREGENCTL" 1)
(setvar "maxsort" 2000)
(setvar "MTJIGSTRING" "Koppes")
(setvar "OPENPARTIAL" 0)
(setvar "PEDITACCEPT" 1)
(setvar "PICKSTYLE" 1)
(setvar "plinetype" 2)
(setvar "SAVEFIDELITY" 0)
(setvar "SELECTIONANNODISPLAY" 0)
(setvar "SHOWLAYERUSAGE" 1)
(setvar "SIGWARN" 0)
(setvar "SSMAUTOOPEN" 0)
(setvar "textfill" 1)
(setvar "wscurrent" "Koppes Ribbon")

(command "-plotstamp" "Log" "no" "plot.log" "")
(setenv "HideSystemPrinters" "1")

And in 'acaddoc.lsp':

(setvar "modemacro" "LTScale=$(getvar,ltscale) PSLTScale=$(getvar,psltscale) MSLTScale=$(getvar,msltscale)")
(setvar "BINDTYPE" 1)
(setvar "DIMASSOC" 1)
(setvar "measurement" 1)
(command "FRAME" 2)
(setvar "HPNAME" "metselwerk")
(setvar "GRIDMODE" 0)
(command "indexctl" 3)
(setvar "INSUNITS" 4)
(setvar "LAYEREVALCTL" 0)
(setvar "LIGHTGLYPHDISPLAY" 0)
(setvar "skpoly" 1)
(setvar "splframe" 0)
(command "TSPACEFAC" 1.1)
(setvar "WMFBKGND" 0)
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The CAD Setter OutJan 10, 2012 05:37 AM
None,

I load an initialization file from the CUI for all users that sets file paths and loads our custom routines.
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