CMDDIA (System Variable)

Controls the display of the In-Place Text Editor for the DIMEDIT and QLEADER commands, and the display of certain dialog boxes in AutoCAD-based products.

Type:	Integer
Saved in:	Registry
Initial value:	1

Within a script, some commands automatically hide certain dialog boxes or the In-Place Text Editor. In other cases, set CMDDIA to 0 or, when available, use the command line version of a command, which is prefaced with a dash.

Value	Description
0	Suppresses the display of the In-Place Text Editor and certain dialog boxes.
1	Displays the In-Place Text Editor and certain dialog boxes.

Note: The FILEDIA system variable controls the display of file dialog boxes such as SAVEAS and OPEN.

The dialog boxes of the following AutoCAD commands are subject to CMDDIA.

• DBCDEFINELT
• DBCDEFINELLT
• DBCDELETEELT
• DBCDELETEELLT
• DBCDELETEQRY
• DBCDISCONNECT
• DBCEDITQRY
• DBCEDITTABLE
• DBCEXECUTEQRY
• DBCEXPORTLINKS
• DBCNEWQRYTABLE
• DBCONFIGURE
• DBCRELOADLABELS
• DBCVIEWLINKEDTABLE
• DBCVIEWTABLE
• LAYOUTMERGE (Express Tool)
• LEADER
• PLOT
• REDIR (Express Tool)
• SOLIDEDIT
• SYSVARMONITOR
• TCASE (Express Tool)
• TEXT
• XATTACH
• -XREF

In addition, some commands specific to AutoCAD-based products are also subject to CMDDIA.