Option

Description

Pen Palette

Select a pen palette to use from the dropdown list. This palette is automatically set when loading drawings.

Load Custom Palette button

Click to load a custom palette file (.pal).

Draw order

Select a draw order to use when drawing entities from the dropdown list.

Depth Order only applies if your drawing has 3D objects and Hardware Acceleration is activated in System Settings.

Drawing background colour

Click to set the background colour for the drawing (model space).

Layout background colour

Click to set the background colour for layouts (paper spaces).

Draw with pen widths

Select this checkbox to draw all entities with their defined lineweights. If this checkbox is deselected, all entities are drawn with a lineweight of zero.

This setting does not affect printing as print output always uses the defined or mapped lineweights.

Draw filled 3D Faces and Meshes using flat shading

Select this checkbox if you want all 3D faces and meshes, including lines, arc, circles and polylines, which have a Thickness greater than zero to be drawn as flat shaded (filled).