Loads geometry and named objects from a selected view or layer into a drawing.
It is recommended that you partially open a drawing by using OPEN and choosing Partial Open in the Select File dialog box to display the Partial Open dialog box.
When you are running a script and using PARTIALOPEN, FILEDIA can be set to 0 or 1. When FILEDIA is set to 0 and you enter PARTIALOPEN or -PARTIALOPEN at the Command prompt, the following prompts are displayed.
The following prompts are displayed.
- Name of drawing to open
- Specifies the name of the drawing you want to open.
You can enter ~ (tilde) at the prompt to ignore FILEDIA and display the Select File dialog box. In the Select File dialog box, select a file and choose Partial Open to display the Partial Open dialog box. If you enter a file name at the Command prompt, additional prompts are displayed.
- View to load
- Opens the drawing with the geometry from the selected view loaded.
- View. Opens the drawing with all the objects in the named view that you specify.
- Extents. Opens all the objects in the drawing.
- ?. Displays a list of views.
- Layers to load
- Loads geometry from one or more layers into the current drawing. To load geometry from multiple layers, use a comma between layer names. If no layer geometry is specified, no layer geometry is loaded into the drawing, including geometry specified to load from a view. Enter ? to display a list of layers.
- Unload all xrefs on open?
- Specifies whether xrefs are included in the opened drawing.
- Yes. Does not load any external references into the drawing.
- No. Loads all external references into the drawing.