Guest VALAH Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 Dear fellows, In AutoCad 2006, when I want to open a new or existing drawing or template, instead of regular dialog box I receive only a prompter dialog which is present in the command line also, asking me for the name of the drawing that I want to open; it is the case also when I want to save a drawing too. I already checked the "Options" under the "Open and Save" tab and everything looks to be in order. How can I resolve this bothering problem since I am able to perform the above tasks only accessing "Windows explorer"? Thank you for your understanding. Best regards, VALAH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f700es Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 type "FILEDIA" and change it's setting. It will be on either 1 or 0. Change it to the other and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dommy2Hotty Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 FILEDIA is the correct variable. Should be turned on to get the dialog. 1 = ON, 0 = OFF. Also, if you're faced with that, the ~ will force the dialog so you can finish the open command and then turn filedia on. Here's a quick look: Command: FILEDIA Enter new value for FILEDIA <0>: 1 Command: OPEN //^---Open dialog shows Command: FILEDIA Enter new value for FILEDIA <1>: 0 Command: OPEN Enter name of drawing to open <D:\ASE\RAFB\0429_GAI3B-TT457\A1-4-TT457-PLAN.dwg>: ~ //^---entering the ~ for the file name will force the dialog so you can finish the command Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murtazachd Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Thanks it is realy helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZWCAD Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 controls the display of dialog boxes used with commands that read and write files. For example, if FILEDIA is set to 1, saveas displays the Save Drawing As dialog box. If FILEDIA is set to 0, SAVEAS displays prompts on the command line. The procedures in this documentation assume that FILEDIA is set to 1. Even when FILEDIA is set to 0, you can display a file dialog box by entering a tilde (~) at the first prompt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjavy7 Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 It worked for me too! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designerstuart Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 FILEDIA, PICKADD and PICKFIRST seem to be the route of many curious problems..... but how come they get changed when the OP has never heard of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 FILEDIA, PICKADD and PICKFIRST seem to be the route of many curious problems..... but how come they get changed when the OP has never heard of them? thats a good question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 They can be changed by poorly written lisp routines that fail to reset system variables upon completing whatever task they were designed to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Third party apps and even AutoCAD commands that are not set up to restore Variables to their previous settings when cancelled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 Also check cmddia whenever filedia is inadvertently changed as it is often not reset as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANIEL Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 that makes sense, the ol i canceled a command and lost all my osnap settings thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larrytru Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Thank You. That did the trick. I couldn't find the command to turn it on anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootbob Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Awesome, thanks for the tips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaminn1 Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 that was a relief bless you dear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CADnoobi Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Hello, AutoCAD MEP 2010. I have set attdia,filedia and cmddia all to 1. My dialogue boxes will still not come up when I type on the command line. For example, I type "xref" and I get prompts in the command line versus the dialogue box popping up. The same for "layer" and "linetype". Oh and my ~ response to the first prompt does not bring up the dialogue box either. I saw in ACAD help that this may be related to AutoLISP. However, I know nothing about AutoLISP. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Close AutoCAD, then restart with a different profile or new profile. Does it work now? Start AutoCAD with a new profile (copy the shortcut on the desktop, right click on shortcut, go to Shortcut tab, in the Target line after the first statement in quotes you may have a /p profile_name, over write that if it is there with /p newprofile (pick any name that doesn't already exist in your profile folder), and if you don't have a /p profile_name then simply add the /p newprofile to that line. Pick ok, then double click on the icon, AutoCAD will start with the new clean profile, open a drawing and see if you have the same trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CADnoobi Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Ok I was able to do that, it made a new profile. I made sure all of the variables were set to 1. The problem is still there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Do you use more than one monitor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CADnoobi Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Yes, I have two monitors. However, the prompts continue to come up in the command line [?/Bind/Detach/Path/Unload/Reload/Overlay/Attach] so I don't think that I have a missing window, but maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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