Where did my dialog box go?

This used to happen a lot more in Land Desktop but I am sure it has happened to everyone at least once. You go to open a file and the open dialog box is no where to be found. After some searching around you noticed that the command line is asking you to type in the entire path of the file you want to open, like this...

Usually this will happen right after a crash now a days but back in the LDT days it would happen mostly when you would hit the esc key before finishing a command.

Instead of going into a long blog about why this happens I will just tell you how to fix it...

Type "FILEDIA" at the command line and set the value from 0 to 1...

 

 

Voilà!

Upgrading to 2011...

Here is the video from the lunchtime workshop we had in Anaheim on the AutoCAD 2011 upgrade. Hopefully it works ok, the video file is unedited and is over an hour long.



AutoCAD 2011 Workshop (7-7-10) from Randy Shadowen on Vimeo.