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Control the Display of the User Coordinate System Icon
To help visualize the current orientation of the user coordinate system, you
can display the user coordinate system icon. Several versions of this icon are
available, and you can change its size, location, and color.
To indicate the location and orientation of the UCS, the UCS icon is displayed
either at the UCS origin point or in the lower-left corner of the current
viewport.
You can choose a 2D or 3D style of the icon to represent the UCS when
working in 2D environment. Shaded style of icon is displayed to represent
the UCS in the 3D environment.
Use the UCSICON command to choose between displaying the 2D or the 3D
UCS icon. The shaded UCS icon is displayed when you open a drawing with
a shaded 3D view that was created in AutoCAD. To indicate the origin and
orientation of the UCS, you can display the UCS icon at the UCS origin point
using the UCSICON command.
If you have multiple viewports, each viewport displays its own UCS icon.
The UCS icon is displayed in various ways to help you visualize the orientation
of the workplane. The following figure shows some of the possible icon
displays.
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