Originally Posted by
j.shields
I took a .lsp in the support folder and copied it with a new name, then put in the (SETVAR "UCSICON" 0) and it worked somewhat. It turned off the UCS in the layout I that defaulted to come open, but the UCS was still there in the model. So it looks like it turns it off in the Layout/Model that opens but that is it. So I am wondering if there is a system variable for it to always be off.
UCSICON *is* the system variable, but each viewport has it's own setting (and MS is considered a viewport)
Follow Brenda's advice and configure your template drawing with this turned off in each viewport.
For existing drawings, you could create a shortcom or a toolbar button to quickly turn it off.
Another idea would be to add (SETVAR "UCSICON" 0) to an existing shortcom. For example, if you defined "ZE" as Zoom, Extents using lisp like this:
Code:
(defun C:ZE ()
(command "._zoom" "_E")
(princ)
)
;;; then you could modify this to...
(defun C:ZE ()
(setvar "ucsicon" 0)
(command "._zoom" "_E")
(princ)
)
...which would turn it off each time you ran the shortcom ZE. Of course the shortcom could be for any frequently used command.