Due to the nature of the work I'm doing, I have been setting the variable DRAWORDERCTL to 2 upon opening a drawing, then do my work, then change it back to 3 (the default) when I'm done. For reasons I won't explain here, this set of moves saves me many, many hours of time on a large and repetitive job over hundreds of dwgs.
For weeks, this has worked fine. Then, all of a sudden, the variable DRAWORDERCTL is simply missing from my command line options. If I type the entire variable name, it reverts to DRAWORDER, which is completely useless. I can back-door it by entering SYSVAR, choosing DRAWORDERCTL, and setting it to 2, but that takes more time.
QUESTION: Does anyone know how a variable can disappear like this, and -- more importantly -- how it can be restored? Because we have so many customizations, a re-install is totally not an option.
Thanks in advance,
Timothy Witten
Cadastral Forensics Technician
Kitsap County, WA
