Helping to Make Points Easier to See *Applies to: AutoCAD R12, 13, 14, 2000, 2000i, 2002, 2004 and 2005*
Have you ever noticed small dots on the screen as well as on
your drawings. This problem with small dots usually doesn't
appear in dimensions when plotting, but other items in the drawing
such as blocks can contain this problem. These small dots are caused by a display setting
for Point objects in the drawing. The display setting is
controlled by a system variable called PDMODE. PDMODE controls
what type of appearance that a Point will display in the
drawing. By default a Point is displayed as a dot, but if you set PDMODE to a
value of 1 AutoCAD will be forced to display a Point as nothing or
blank on the
screen. Allowing for a cleaner plot of your drawing. As
well as turning off the display of Points you can also have a point
display as one of its other settings on the screen as well.
Below is a listing of the values that PDMODE can have and the
appearance of the Point next to it.
0 -
32 -
64 -
96 -
1 -
33 -
65 -
97 -
2 -
34 -
66 -
98 -
3 -
35 -
67 -
99 -
4 -
36 -
68 -
100 -
Command Line:
Command: pdmode
Enter new value for PDMODE <0>: 1
Related AutoCAD commands: DDPTYPE, PDSIZE and POINT
