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WHIPTHREAD (System Variable)

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Intermediate

Controls whether to use an additional processor to improve the speed of operations such as ZOOM that redraw or regenerate the drawing.

WHIPTHREAD has no effect on single processor machines.

0

No multithreaded processing; restricts regeneration and redraw processing to a single processor. This setting restores the behavior of AutoCAD 2000 and previous releases.

1

Regeneration multithreaded processing only; regeneration processing is distributed across two processors on a multiprocessor machine.

2

Redraw multithreaded processing only; redraw processing is distributed across two processors on a multiprocessor machine.

3

Regeneration and redraw multithreaded processing; regeneration and redraw processing is distributed across two processors on a multiprocessor machine.

When multithreaded processing is used for redraw operations (value 2 or 3), the order of objects specified with the DRAWORDER command is not guaranteed to be preserved for display, but is preserved for plotting.


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