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AutoCAD 2019 - How to Edit global width for rectangle command

suratsm9 — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:51:47 GMT

I'm unable edit my rectangle global width unless I go and change in the properties every single time. I have tried all the solution found to similar problem as mine. I kept FILL command off, done REGEN, but nothing worked and appears same when I add a new rectangle.

[ The subject line of this post has been edited for clarity by @handjonathan Original: How to Edit global width for rectangle command ]

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

pendean — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:43:14 GMT

Global Width?

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

user181 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:42:07 GMT

After starting the rectangle command look at the command line before you draw it and choose the option Width and set it there and then draw the rectangle

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

paullimapa — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:49:53 GMT

@suratsm9 wrote:
I'm unable edit my rectangle global widnth unless I go and change in the properties every single time. I have tried all the solution found to similar problem as mine. I kept FILL command off, done REGEN, but nothing worked and appears same when I add a new rectangle.

Have you check this setting

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-35EEB892-15C9-442F-847D-2F4DC52E9690-htm.html

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

Kent1Cooper — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:12:59 GMT

@paullimapa wrote:
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Have you check this setting

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The PLINEWID System Variable is ignored by the RECTANG command. It has its own Width option [in newer versions] as already suggested by @user181, independent of the PLINEWID setting.

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

paullimapa — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:38:32 GMT

Looking at OP's screen capture, the "A" logo appears to show AutoCAD 2020...then plinewid setting still applies. Of course if OP uses AutoCAD 2023, then your statement applies.

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:48:28 GMT

I have 2020 here, and it works as I described. RECTANG has its own internal Width option [default zero], which it uses regardless of the overall-drawing PLINEWID setting. I think there was a time further back [I don't have older versions to test with] when RECTANG drew rectangles at zero width no matter what -- it did not have a Width option, and it ignored any non-zero PLINEWID setting.

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

paullimapa — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:44:54 GMT

very strange. I’ve tried it on 2020 2021 and 2022. Perhaps it’s beca I’m using REC command which starts the original command to draw Rectangles.

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:52:13 GMT

@paullimapa wrote:

.... I’m using REC command which starts the original command to draw Rectangles.

In 2020, by default REC is a command alias, and gets the RECTANG command. Do you have it as a custom command definition, that uses the PLINE command and calculates corners for itself? Something like that would honor the PLINEWID setting.

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

paullimapa — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:03:15 GMT

When I get a chance I’ll check the aliases on those 3 versions.

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

paullimapa — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:47:37 GMT

so I finally got a chance to go through AutoCAD 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023.

Only AutoCAD 2023's RECTANG comand has additional options.

But from AutoCAD 2020 through 2022, the RECTANG command depends on PLINWID to set the global width:

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

suratsm9 — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 05:43:11 GMT

I use AutoCAD 2019

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

cadffm — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:33:53 GMT

@paullimapa

all your pre2023 version shows NOT the native rectangle command!

I see, you tried to force the native command by üusing the period,

but only your 2023 picture shows the usual acting and the usual command prompts.

Is it the same in -2022 version if you start Acad in /safemode ?

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:36:11 GMT

@paullimapa wrote:

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Only AutoCAD 2023's RECTANG comand has additional options.

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My 2020 has those options:

and the same if I do it with the period prefix .RECTANG.

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

cadffm — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:02:57 GMT

@paullimapa

I am searching for a case I helped someone with an old Lisp, on an old machine with AutoCAD 2000,

At his workstation also the Acad prompts are different to the usual ones.

But this guy wasn't an expert, so I couldn't figured out what's up there.

You are a very good and more experienced expert (except the knowledge of the rectang command SCNR) 😁

and I am very excited to see what we will find out.
Start AutoCAD 2022 or older in /safemode
The same thing?
Is the VBA module installed?
Have you tested all 4 versions on the same PC, or is at least one of the versions installed together with 2023?

EDIT: And may I ask how the -LAYER prompt looks like?

For example:

Command: _.-LAYER

Current layer: "0"
Enter an option [?/Make/Set/New/Rename/ON/OFF/Color/Ltype/LWeight/TRansparency/MATerial/Plot/Freeze/Thaw/LOck/Unlock/stAte/Description/rEconcile/Xref]: _off

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

paullimapa — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:45:35 GMT

Looks like my 2020 Rectang mystery command continues. But of course we all missed it now looking back at OPs screen capture tittle bar showing AutoCAD Architecture 2019

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

cadffm — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:50:04 GMT

>>"we all missed " No I didn't

But if OP can't stopping autoCAD to use the width>0, it is nothing usual.

You can use the width option, but it is a temporary setting (not saved).

Close&ReOpen the file should reset the deefault value to 0

And no, let's talk about your Rectang command 😀 (PM)

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

paullimapa — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:58:03 GMT

O how I wished you had jumped in earlier and knocked some sense into all of us for assuming OP is using more recent AutoCAD versions. Then the replies would have been very different (more like mine wink wink)

When I get a chance I’ll hop back onto that workstation and try the safe mode switch. FYI All four versions are installed side by side 2020 to 2023. I’ll check the Expert value to see if they’re all set the same and do a screen capture of the About screens and share that here

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

cadffm — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:07:30 GMT

@paullimapa schrieb:

O how I wished you had jumped in earlier

Sorry! But title was change to ACAD2018, The title in image displaying ACA2019,

and it has nothing to do with the version of last decades.

What should I have done, a kindly "Open your eyes" -wouldn't have changed for the OP (but I understand it would have made you less work)

SORRY again.

If you back on the machine with all 4 versions installed side by side,

Check the -LAYER command also.

(note: Expert shouldn't change the prompt of Rectang command, but test it, just a minute to make it sure.)

bye

Re: How to Edit global width for rectangle command

paullimapa — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:10:44 GMT

So are you saying that even as far back as 2018 the Rectang command had the additional option to control width?