Good question: Object visibility when dragging

Today’s good question comes from Todd. He asked how to control the visibility of objects as they are dragged during a Move- or Copy-type of operation.

By default AutoCAD displays geometry as you drag. However, you can change this behavior using the DRAGMODE command.  It has three modes:

OFF (0) - Ignores all drag requests including those within menu items.
ON (1) - Allows dragging but you must enter the word drag within the operation if you want to see the geometry drag.
AUTO (2) - Enables automatic dragging for any operation that supports it. This is the default mode.

Thanks to Todd for the good question and to Lynn Allen for refreshing my memory regarding the answer!