Files Tab (Options Dialog Box)

Lists the folders in which the program searches for support, driver, menu, and other files. Also lists optional, user-defined settings such as which dictionary to use for checking spelling.

Support File Search Path

Specifies the folders in which the program should look for text fonts, customization files, plug-ins, drawings to insert, linetypes, and hatch patterns that are not in the current folder.

Working Support File Search Path

Displays the active directories that the program searches for support files specific to your system. The list is read-only and displays valid paths from the Support Files Search Path that exist within the current directory structure and network mappings.

Device Driver File Search Path

Specifies where AutoCAD looks for device drivers for the video display, pointing devices, printers, and plotters.

Project Files Search Path

Specifies a project name for the drawing. The project name corresponds to a search path for external reference (xref) files associated with the project. You can create any number of project names with associated folders, but each drawing can have only one project name.

Help and Miscellaneous File Names

Specifies the names and locations of various types of files.

Default Internet Location

Specifies the default Internet location saved with the drawing.

Text Editor, Dictionary, and Font File Names

Specifies a number of optional settings.

Alternate Font File

Specifies the location of the font file to use if the original font cannot be located and an alternate font is not specified in the font mapping file. If you click Browse, the Alternate Font dialog box is displayed, from which you can choose an available font.

Font Mapping File

Specifies the location of the file that defines how to convert fonts that cannot be found.

Print File, Spooler, and Prolog Section Names

Specifies settings related to plotting.

Plot File Name for Legacy Plotting Scripts

Specifies a default name for the temporary plot files used with plotting scripts created with AutoCAD Release 14 or earlier. The default name is the drawing name plus the .plt file extension. The default name used with AutoCAD 2000 and later drawings is the drawing name-layout name plus the .plt file name extension. Some plotting device drivers, however, use a different plot file extension. This option affects only the default plot file name used for plotting scripts created with earlier versions of AutoCAD.

Print Spool Executable

Specifies the application to use for print spooling.

Printer Support File Path

Specifies search path settings for printer support files.

Print Spooler File Location

Specifies the path for print spool files. AutoCAD writes the plot to this location.

Printer Configuration Search Path

Specifies the path for printer configuration files (PC3 files).

Printer Description File Search Path

Specifies the path for files with a .pmp file extension, or printer description files.

Plot Style Table Search Path

Specifies the path for files with an .stb or .ctb extension, or plot style table files (both named plot style tables and color-dependent plot style tables).

Color Book Locations

Specifies the path for color book files that can be used when specifying colors in the Select Color dialog box.

Log File Location

Specifies the path for log files.

Plot and Publish Log File Location

Specifies the path for the log file that is created if you select the Automatically Save Plot and Publish Log option on the Plot and Publish tab.

Texture Maps Search Path

Specifies the folders to search for material texture maps.

Web File Search Path

Specifies the folders to search for photometric web (.ies) files.

Browse

Displays the Browse for Folder or Select a File dialog box, depending on what you selected in the List of Folders and Files.

Add

Adds a search path for the selected folder.

Remove

Removes the selected search path or file.

Move Up

Moves the selected search path above the preceding search path.

Move Down

Moves the selected search path below the following search path.

Set Current

Makes the selected project current.