topic Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR in AutoCAD Forum

RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:46:19 GMT

Hello,

Can anyone tell me why this re dot has shown up next to my cursor. I can't seem to figure it out, and it really bugs my supervisor! See attached photo.

thanks

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

tcorey — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:47:59 GMT

Do you have a screen-recording software that might have added that?

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

mathewkol — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:23:21 GMT

Or AutoCAD's action recorder. Can we assume you have restarted? Does this happen after a restart?

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:30:53 GMT

After restart it went away, yes. It was weird because I saw it happen on two different machines within an hour yesterday. I clicked on the record function within autocad and yep, that exact same red bubble came up. So I suppose that funtion was accidentally triggered. By two different people on two different machines on the same map! How do you accidentally type _ASTRECORD .....weird!

Thanks for the replies

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

JessicaPalmer — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:29:21 GMT

The command can also be started on Manage tab, Record/Stop.

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:34:41 GMT

The command was initiated by ARR, which is extremely close to a command that I added with a lisp file. It is turned off from the manage menu.

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:46:07 GMT

If you type ARR (intending to use array tool), it comes first the command ACTRECORD. That's way the red dot apears next to the cursor. Cause it starts recording 😉

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:25:48 GMT

Right Click.. Action Recorder (Stop) 🙂 good luck

Check attachment fyr

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

Daniel.Lita — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:09:58 GMT

Type "ACTSTOP" if you can't find Recorder/Stop in right click menu.

Love & light to everyone.

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:34:56 GMT

How to remove the red dot next to cursor?

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:50:12 GMT

its recording you can stop it by right click and stop recording or just type ACTSTOP in command line and enter.

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

mchasenCADTechv12 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:55:44 GMT

I was using ARRAY and mistyped, apparently.
Thank you for posting this solution.

Re: RED DOT NEXT TO CURSOR

cadFXH9K — Thu, 29 May 2025 13:01:21 GMT

Bingo! Thank for sharing how to remove the red dot. ACTSTOP