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ing the object type with its layer, color, and linetype. If, like me, you find this a little in-
trusive, set its value to 0.
You can get double-duty from this command. Not only can you key it into AutoCAD, but
if you have a dog named Tips, you can use it to teach him a neat pet trick!
ROLLOVERTIPS is stored in the Windows registry. (And believe it or not — and I'll bet
you won't — there's another system variable called NOMUTT! Could that be AutoCAD-
ese for BAD DOG TIPS!?)
TOOLTIPS
Tooltips themselves are the little text boxes that appear (by default, anyway) when you
hover your mouse pointer over a toolbar or Ribbon button, or just about anywhere in a
dialog box. Tooltips are really useful when you're getting to know your way around a
program, but when you have a sense of where things are, they can get in the way. By de-
fault, TOOLTIPS is set to 1, which means they appear when you hover the mouse pointer
over something. Set TOOLTIPS to 0 if you don't want to see them again. The TOOLTIPS
setting is stored in the Windows registry.
VISRETAIN
If you work with xrefs (refer to Chapter 18), you know the potential for competing layer
properties. Sometimes you want your xref to look different from your current drawing so
you can tell which is which. You can change layer colors of xrefs in the Layer Property
Manager, but whether you have to do that every time you open a drawing with an at-
tached xref depends on the setting of the VISRETAIN system variable. When VISRETAIN
is set to 0, the layer properties in the xref take precedence, which means you would have
to make those changes every time you opened the host drawing. When VISRETAIN is set
to 1 (the default value), changes you make to layer properties in the host drawing re-
main intact every time you open that host drawing; however, those changes have no ef-
fect on the external file itself. The VISRETAIN value is stored in the current drawing.
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