Have you ever lost your AutoCAD open dialog box? I had this question several times. I never experience this, but it looks like this is a common issue. I found many similar thread in some AutoCAD forum. This thread is an example.
When AutoCAD ask us to open a file, either DWG file or other file type, we will see dialog box similar to this.
Instead of having a dialog box opened, you may see this message in command line and in dynamic input.
Enter name of drawing to open <.>: plan.dwg
Some of them said that the dialog box is missing after their computer hang or freeze. I suspect they were running some LISP or program when it happened. Or cancel poorly written LISP without error trapping.
To restore it is easy. Somehow, an AutoCAD system variable has changed.
Type FILEDIA then [enter]. Enter 1 as new value, then [enter]. You should be able to see you file dialog box now.
The safest thing to do is backup your system variable to prevent similar problem. See how you can backup and restore your system variable here.
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