Once upon a time in AutoCAD the cursor (crosshairs) filled the entire drawing area by default. This mimicked an old t-square or drafting machine in functionality. There were many advantages of having your cursor span the entire screen, one of course being the ability to quickly check if two items were in line with each other.
Since AutoCAD Release 14, AutoCAD has shipped with the cursor spanning only 5% of the drawing area. The size of AutoCAD’s cursor is controlled by a system variable introduced in, you guessed it, AutoCAD Release 14. Typing CURSORSIZE at the command line will allow a user to specify a new size for their cursor. This variable is specified in percent, meaning the default value of 5 will make the cursor span only 5% of the drawing area. Consequently, setting the CURSORSIZE system variable to 100 will make the cursor span the entire drawing area – 100%.
OMG THANK YOU! My work computer got formatted and i had to re-load AutoCAD. So i lost all my original settings…including my 100% crosshairs. Took me forever to find this just to change them back from 5%. Thanks again ?
Hi Dear
This G$$anesh from Bangalore, INDIA
Kindly let me know the crosshair setting (pointer).
As a i working on autocad 2007 version. the pointer is not detecting the nearest object, tracing out the nearest line parellel or diagonal to the same.
mainly i want the pointer to display the nearest object
There may be a 3rd party app somewhere that will allow for this. But using native Windows, I do not know of a way.
Did you ever figure out how to do this?
I have always loved how useful the crosshairs cursor in AutoCAD is, and I was just wondering if you knew of any way to get this for my entire computer.