topic Re: GIZMO Off in AutoCAD MEP Forum

GIZMO Off

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:54:35 GMT

Is there any way to permanently and globally turn off the Gizmo? I'm constantly setting DEFAULTGIZMO to 3 in my drawings, but it resets to 1 after reopening the drawing.

I'm using MEP 2013. Any help is appreciated!

Re: GIZMO Off

Joshua.Benoist — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:18:17 GMT

See http://screencast.com/t/DJPct3lphz

Behavior cannot be changed.

Joshua

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Re: GIZMO Off

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:22:46 GMT

That is, disappointing. But thanks for your reply.

Re: GIZMO Off

JoeVernice — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:58:46 GMT

Just add the following line to your acaddoc.lsp file:

(setvar "DEFAULTGIZMO" 3)

If you haven’t already created an acaddoc.lsp file, use notepad to save one in C:\Users\<loginname>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\MEP 2012\enu\Support.

JMV

Re: GIZMO Off

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:56:44 GMT

That worked perfectly, thank you!

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synsterthompson — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:40:36 GMT

Worked great for me too! Thanks!

Re: GIZMO Off

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:49:02 GMT

Thank you!!!! That worked for me too!

I've been trying to turn the blasted Gizmo off since Monday!! The Gizmo wasn't appearing in the past. Suddenly, and I have no idea why, but when I returned from vacation, it was defaulted to 0 instead of 3, and I couldn't find any way to change it back!!

Sherrie

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Anonymous — Mon, 08 May 2017 14:16:00 GMT

Me too! Thanks so much!

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Anonymous — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:34:12 GMT

Than you, that helped in second 🙂

Re: GIZMO Off

rhgrafix — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 07:48:43 GMT

Thank you! I tried every choice in the UCSICON command, AUTODESK PLEASE PUT THIS CHOICE IN THIS COMMAND! Unless you know that it is called a GIZMO, how can we know what to type to turn it off? I kept turning ucsicon off only to have the "gizmo" come right back. I wasted so much time messing with that, it seems so logical to add that to the UCSICON command since it's almost the same thing. Sorry to be so annoyed but it's horrible GUI that wastes so much time to deal with.

Re: GIZMO Off

kim_schwartz — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:24:39 GMT

It has been some time since this post, I would like to turn Gizmo off in Civil 3D 2019, but searching the C drive came up with no acaddoc.lsp... Any help?

Re: GIZMO Off

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:11:01 GMT

Has anyone figured this out for 2020 yet?

Re: GIZMO Off

JReidhead — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:10:19 GMT

I had it popping up in the middle of each item every time I selected it.

With the command DEFAULTGIZMO (3) it will go to the bottom left corner of your screen, which is much better.

I hope this helps 🙂

Josh

Re: GIZMO Off

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:02:34 GMT

I found it...

Bottom right corner of the screen, there's a button.

Re: GIZMO Off

tomlynham6453 — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:01:30 GMT

2020 and we're still using LISP routines to fix Autodesk's sloppy defaults? How many people work on AutoCAD?

Re: GIZMO Off

JoeVernice — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:35:18 GMT

The mere fact that this thread has over 28,000 views proves your point!

JMV

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mdb.kam — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:41:58 GMT

Apparently it's only one guy. I can't even use 2021 it's so bad...

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rhgrafix — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:30:04 GMT

They don't seem to listen to any of us on any forum, I've been submitting bugs and annoyances for over 25 years and I don't think a single thing has been fixed.

Re: GIZMO Off

cynthia.paish — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:56:32 GMT

Can you break this down for someone not quite as advanced? Is there more to it than what you describe?

Re: GIZMO Off

JoeVernice — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:12:59 GMT

@cynthia.paish

Were you successful in implementing the solution or do you need help?

JMV