AutoCAD - Missing Dialog Box

Has your dialog box gone missing or no longer appearing on screen?

Its a common issue but very easy to fix. 

It’s the system variable called FILEDIA which has changed.

If you do the following:

Type FILEDIA into the command line it should say the following Enter new value for FILEDIA <0>: change this to 1 and the dialog boxes should now appear on screen again.

In simple terms:

0 Does not display dialog boxes. 

The default setting is 1 Displays dialog boxes.

AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2013 - System Requirements

If you are looking to run AutoCAD Structural Detailing you might want to see what spec of machine you will need. Below is the standard spec Autodesk recommend you have to run ASD on a 32bit and 64bit machine.

For 32-Bit AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2013

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional or Home Premium edition, Microsoft® Windows Vista® (SP2) Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home Premium edition, or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home edition (SP3 or later)
• For Windows Vista and Windows 7: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or greater with SSE2 technology
• For Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or greater with SSE2 technology
• 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• 6 GB free disk space for default install, 6 GB hard disk space available after installation
• Video card 1,280 x 1,024 true color
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
• DVD drive (for installation only)

For 64-Bit AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2013

• Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium edition or Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, Ultimate, or Home Premium edition (SP2 or later)
• AMD Athlon™ 64 with SSE2 technology, AMD Opteron™ with SSE2 technology, Intel® Xeon® with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
• 6 GB free disk space for default install, 6 GB hard disk space available after installation
• Video card 1,280 x 1,024 true color
• Internet Explorer 7.0 (or later)
• Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
• DVD drive (for installation only)

Please note information has been taken from Autodesk website for more details see the following link.

AutoCAD Structural Detailing