Defpoints cover my drawing on a mac

[Anonymous]

Lately, half way through a drawing, I all of a sudden start getting defpoints which obscure the details within my drawing.

So far, I have not been able to figure out a way to turn them off (get rid of them).

Any ideas?

Thanks, Brent

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Lately, half way through a drawing, I all of a sudden start getting defpoints which obscure the details within my drawing.

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Welcome to these Forums!

Can you post an image of what you get?  If it involves crosses and/or X's and/or circles and/or squares surrounding definition-point locations, are you using any custom routines/commands that might be changing the PDMODE System Variable for how Points are Displayed?  Read about that in Help, set it to show just a point, or nothing, and see if that fixes it.  If that's the problem, the code for such a routine/command could be alterable to stop it from doing that.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Kent,

I get grey colored squares that surround the area I am working on.

I will look in help for PD mode. 

What surprises me is this has happened before, on occasion, and

always occurs half way through a drawing. I can nor remember changing anything 

at the time. 

I am off to the help menu.

Thanks

Brent

[imadHabash · Accepted solution]

Hi and Welcome to AutoDesk Forum,

i suggest to Disable Hardware acceleration from 3Dconfig command.

[Emmsleys]

To add you can look to the following help links about POINTS: 

• P System Variables 
• POINT (Command) 
• PDMODE (mentioned above) 

If you are still having an issue could you provide a sample file or a few screenshots of your issue? 

Thanks. 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I do believe I have narrowed down my problem.
I might have accidentally turned on my Parametric constraints for the defpoints. Now that I have turned them off, they are not a problem.
Thank you for your time.
Brent

[Emmsleys · Accepted solution]

Thanks for sharing what worked!