Open without default drawing Drawing1.dwg

[poirier]

How can I open Autocad without the default drawing opening (Drawing1.dwg)?

I'd rather have it start like the older versions of autocad where I pick which drawing to open. Thanks in advance!

[rkent]

Change the variable STARTUP to 1.

[bbankston]

thanks, rkent. I've always wondered how to change that myself. How do you guys know these things?

[f700es]

I always thought it would be cool to have a setting where it was no start-up template and and no start screen. Then you could set the background to be the company logo. Well, I thought it would be cool

[rkmcswain]

Just an FYI.... even if you startup AutoCAD and "drawing1.dwg" opens, it will close as soon as you open another drawing, provided DBMOD=0 in "drawing1.dwg".

[rkent]

..... How do you guys know these things?

 

I have used AutoCAD since 1988 and each year of a new release I purchase a book based on the new release and read it through. For the last 4 or 5 releases I have only purchased the Ralph Grabowski booklet "What's New In AutoCAD 20xx". I had a subscription to Cadalyst and Cadence for years and learned a lot from those magazines as well. Also I have been participating in forums like this one for years and so I pick up knowledge along the way, just as you have for this one particular issue.

[bbankston]

this site is uh-mazing!

 

Seriously, we've had a couple of new hire AutoCAD monkeys here that have schooling/certifications and I still know more than them, and I'm self taught through the PDF booklet (that came with the software) and this wonderful website.

 

PS (those guys don't work here no mo'.)

[KENAI1194]

Change the variable STARTUP to 1.

 

Is there a time limit on replying? I just spent the last 10 minutes or so getting it just right, & when I did Preview Post I was told I wasn't logged in!

[KENAI1194]

Been using Map 3D 2011 for the last couple months (2007 before that). Yesterday I installed Autodesk viewer to be able to view the CADfiles as a Viewer would show them. We have been having issues w/ Masking blacking out Field text (Filename) when printing from the Viewer in our document management software (EDMS). I wanted to see if my solution worked by opening the file in the viewer after installing it on my box. Then I noticed the Drawing1.dwg along w/ the desired CADfile. I Uninstalled the viewer, but that did not help. Anyone know if the INI file or some such IT Nazi stuff going on here? I am just the CAD guy, not knowledgeable enough in It stuff to know what all my installs have done.

[KENAI1194]

Also SDI set to 1 for multiple sessions.