Solved: Re: enter name of drawing to open??

Anonymous · ‎01-02-2007

after a recent crash civil 3d now asks me to type in the full path and file name for a file i want to open after selecting the open option on the menu or toolbar.
i know there is a variable that requires re setting but i don't know how. advice gratefully recieved.
thanks!

Anonymous · ‎01-02-2007

FILEDIA=1

Anonymous · ‎08-22-2008

I have run into a similar situation where Civil 3D crashed and now when I try to open a file in Civil 3D it asks in the command line: "enter name of drawing to open <.>: The way I've been able to get around it is to have civil 3D open and in the start menu I search for the drawing file and double click it there to open it in Civil 3D. This is not cool. Anyone, please help!!!

Anonymous · ‎08-22-2008

When civil3d crashes like that some parameters get set to the wrong variable. As the previous post mentions, you should Type FILEDIA at the command line and set this variable to 1. Then your open command will work as designed. GL.

Anonymous · ‎05-26-2012

AutoCAD has lots of stupid options like this. I was frustrated by this f software. It sucks.

andrewpuller3811 · ‎05-27-2012

Until you want to automate something then this option comes in very handy.

If a post provides a fix for your issue, click on "Accept as Solution" to help other users find solutions to problems they might have that are similar to yours.

Andrew Puller
Maitland, NSW, Australia
Windows 11
Intel core i7 11800 @ 2.30 GHz with 32GB Ram
Civil 3d 2023

Anonymous · ‎07-22-2013

Thanks for the information on fixing this issue.

neilyj666 · ‎07-22-2013

add the line

(setvar "filedia" 1)

to your acaddoc.lsp file and you won't see this again

neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
Did you find this post helpful? Feel free to Like this post.
Did your question get successfully answered? Then click on the ACCEPT SOLUTION button.

AEC Collection 2025 UKIE (mainly Civil 3D UKIE and IW)
Win 11 Pro x64, 1Tb Primary SSD, 1Tb Secondary SSD
64Gb RAM Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-11855M CPU @ 3.2GHz
NVIDIA RTX A5000 16Gb, Dual 27" Monitor, Dell Inspiron 7760

Anonymous · ‎07-22-2013

Where do I find the acaddoc.Isp file? Thanks.

neilyj666 · ‎07-22-2013

See message 20 in link

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D/Hot-Fix-isn-t-very-hot/td-p/4332149/highlight/true/pa...

neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
Did you find this post helpful? Feel free to Like this post.
Did your question get successfully answered? Then click on the ACCEPT SOLUTION button.

AEC Collection 2025 UKIE (mainly Civil 3D UKIE and IW)
Win 11 Pro x64, 1Tb Primary SSD, 1Tb Secondary SSD
64Gb RAM Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-11855M CPU @ 3.2GHz
NVIDIA RTX A5000 16Gb, Dual 27" Monitor, Dell Inspiron 7760

Ajilal.Vijayan · ‎07-22-2013

In AutoCAD command line type this

(findfile "ACADDOC.lsp")

This should return the path of ACADDOC.lsp

| Drawing Purge

| Xrefs Shortcuts

neilyj666 · ‎07-22-2013

This is true - if acaddoc.lsp isn't found then follow my previous post

neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
Did you find this post helpful? Feel free to Like this post.
Did your question get successfully answered? Then click on the ACCEPT SOLUTION button.

AEC Collection 2025 UKIE (mainly Civil 3D UKIE and IW)
Win 11 Pro x64, 1Tb Primary SSD, 1Tb Secondary SSD
64Gb RAM Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-11855M CPU @ 3.2GHz
NVIDIA RTX A5000 16Gb, Dual 27" Monitor, Dell Inspiron 7760

Anonymous · ‎01-23-2014

Hi I am not an expert by any means on CAD, however somethign has cause my computer to to that thing they're all talking about on this forum where you have to type the name of the drawing in to open it.

I have tried typing Fieldia=1 in and what ever i type it just says there is not a drawing of this name?!!?

Please help I have major project drawings to finish and i cant open them..... I also noticed I couldnt save as when recently working in CAD I had to save over what I had done.

I forgot to mention this is Civil 3D 2013

Thanks

Sam

troma · ‎01-23-2014

If it's asking for the drawing name, type a tilde. It's normally at the top left of the keyboard, looks like this ~
Then, when you have a drawing open, type FILEDIA in the commandline. Hit enter. Then type 1. Enter.

Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Anonymous · ‎01-25-2014

Thank you sooo much!! it worked a treat!

Anonymous · ‎04-14-2014

It works ........Thank you very much for the solution

Anonymous · ‎06-27-2014

Hello;

What if the command line does not show up? I type in FILEDIA after the sentence: "Enter name of drawing to open <.>" and nothing happens

antoniovinci · ‎06-27-2014

KBN11 wrote:

Hello;

What if the command line does not show up? I type in FILEDIA after the sentence: "Enter name of drawing to open <.>" and nothing happens

Read the 23-01-2014 10:47 PM post, man.

Anonymous · ‎06-28-2014

Enter Filedia command and change value to 1

Regards,
Prashant

Anonymous · ‎07-01-2014

Just to clarify for those having difficulty understanding what you are being advised... If you happen to get the prompt for file opening or saving at the command line and not the dialog you expect to see, hit escape to exit the command and THEN type filedia at the command line and change the value to 1. Then try the open or save command again and you will see the dialog box. John