Open drawing dialogue box

[piaLarman]

CAD 2006. When I try to open a drawing through AutoCAD... CAD requests the filename in the command line versus giving the standard microsoft dialogue box.

When I want to 'SAVE AS' it is asking me to enter the file name & tree in the commandline.

It is driving me nuts :? Please help!

[Cad64]

Set your variable FILEDIA to 1.

[piaLarman]

Thanks much CAD 64

[shinymathew]

i also faced a similar problem today. fortunately i could find out the solution from cadtutor forum immediately. thanks to you.

but how this problem started all of a sudden? without changing any settings knowingly? ofcourse i worked on some autoplant files also. is it any reason?

[rkmcswain]

but how this problem started all of a sudden? without changing any settings knowingly? ofcourse i worked on some autoplant files also. is it any reason?

Most likely a poorly written lisp or VBA routine changed it and did not set it back.

You can use the lisp routine on the following page to alert you when a system variable is changed.
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2007/03/system-variables-changing-on-their-own.html