Customizes the display.
OPTIONS (Command) Find
The following options are displayed.
Controls display settings specific to the drawing environment.
Controls color settings in a dark or light color for interface elements such as the status bar, title bar, ribbon bar, palettes, and the application menu frame. (COLORTHEME system variable)
Displays scroll bars at the bottom and right sides of the drawing area.
Displays buttons in a larger format at 32 by 32 pixels.
Scales the small ribbon icons to 16 x 16 pixels and the large ribbon icons to 32 x 32 pixels when they do not match the standard icon sizes. (RIBBONICONRESIZE system variable)
Controls the display of tooltips on the ribbon, toolbars, and other user interface elements. (TOOLTIPS system variable)
Sets the intial delay time to display tooltips.
Displays shortcut keys in the tooltip (Alt + Key) (Ctrl + Key).
Controls the display of extended tooltips.
Sets the delay time between the display of basic tooltips and extended tooltips.
Controls the display of rollover tooltips when the cursor hovers over an object. (ROLLOVERTIPS system variable)
Displays the File tabs at the top of the drawing area. (FILETAB and FILETABCLOSE commands)
Displays the Color Options dialog box. Use this dialog box to specify colors of elements in the main application window.
Displays the Command Line Window Font dialog box. Use this dialog box to specify the font for the command window text.
Controls options for existing and new layouts. A layout is a paper space environment in which you can set up drawings for plotting.
Displays the layout and Model tabs at the bottom of the drawing area. When this option is cleared, the tabs are replaced by buttons on the status bar.
Displays the printable area in a layout. The printable area is represented by the area within the dashed line and is determined by the selected output device.
Displays a representation of the specified paper size in a layout. The paper size and plot scale determine the size of the paper background.
Displays a shadow around the paper background in layout. This option is not available if the Display Paper Background option is cleared.
Displays the Page Setup Manager the first time you click a layout tab. Use this dialog box to set options related to paper and plot settings.
Creates a single viewport automatically when you create a new layout.
Determines the size of the crosshairs as a percentage of the screen size.
( CURSORSIZE system variable)
Controls the quality of the display of objects. If you set high values to improve display quality, the impact on performance is significant.
Sets the resolution for objects in the current viewport. (VIEWRES command)
Sets the number of line segments to be generated for each spline-fit polyline generated by the Spline option of the PEDIT command. (SPLINESEGS system variable)
Not available in AutoCAD LT
Adjusts the smoothness of shaded and rendered objects and objects with hidden lines removed.
Adjusts the smoothness of shaded objects and objects with hidden lines removed. (FACETRES system variable)
Not available in AutoCAD LT
Specifies the number of contour lines displayed on the curved surfaces of 3D solids. (ISOLINES system variable)
Controls display settings that affect performance.
Not available in AutoCAD LT
Controls the display of raster images and OLE objects during Realtime ZOOM or PAN. (RTDISPLAY system variable)
If dragging display is turned on and you select Pan and Zoom with Raster and OLE, a copy of the object moves with the cursor as you reposition the original. ( DRAGMODE system variable)
Not available in AutoCAD LT
Controls whether the entire raster image or only the raster image frame is highlighted. (IMAGEHLT system variable)
Specifies whether hatches and fills, 2D solids, and wide polylines are filled in. (FILLMODE system variable)
Controls how text is displayed. (QTEXTMODE system variable)
Not available in AutoCAD LT
Controls display of silhouette edges of 3D solid objects in a 2D Wireframe or 3D Wireframe visual style. (DISPSILH system variable)
Controls the fading intensity value for DWG xrefs and, in AutoCAD, reference editing.
Controls the dimming for all DWG xref objects. (XDWGFADECTL system variable)
This option only affects the display on the screen. It does not affect plotting or plot preview.
Not available in AutoCAD LT
Specifies the fading intensity value for objects during in-place reference editing. Objects that are not being edited are displayed at a lesser intensity. (XFADECTL system variable)
With in-place reference editing, you can edit a block reference or external reference from within the current drawing. The valid range is 0 through 90 percent.