new 2015 placement tool

[erobinson]

How do I add the new "select and place" tool from 2015 to my 2014 toolbar set.  When I load my 2014 toolbars it disappears and I can't seem to find it in the customize user interface.  One would think it should be called SELECT AND PLACE!!!  grrr..someone please help.

[spacefrog_]

You should NEVER EVER load toolbars from previous Max versions..

Period.

[erobinson]

Why not?  Who has time to sit and reconfigure all their tool bars every time a new max is released?  I've been using previous version tool bars since max 9

[Steve_Curley]

Then you've been exceedingly lucky not to cripple Max - as others have managed to do.
Try Voting for it.

[erobinson]

Voted.

[erobinson]

It's under "Placement" but using it doesn't give all the features found in the right click menu 😕

[spacefrog_ · Accepted solution]

If you are brave and have some kind of coder mindset, you can try to edit/modify the cuix files by hand

Those are simply XML files and with some dedication you will be able to import your custom toolbars from previous Max versions by importing the relevant XML nodes into your new Max's cuix file

Of course only do that  on a copy of the cuix files, as you will fail to keep up the correct structure of the XML repeatedly

If you are not that geek minded, i would recommend building your toolbars fresh from scratch in Max'S UI config dialog...

[michaelwbell · Accepted solution]

I have tried Spacefrog's workflow and it worked very well.

I opened 2014 and saved out my setup with all the custom toolbars as a .cuix file.

I opened 2015 and saved out the default toolbars as a new .cuix file

I then just opened both .cuix files and copied over the XML code for all the custom toolbars into the 2015 .cuix file. All my buttons are only placed on new toolbars, i never modify the normal default toolbar. So in that case it was a quick 3 minute job! 

7 custom toolbars copied over.

There are now some buttons on my toolbars that are greyed out because plugins/scripts are missing. Power Preview, for example 😉

Hopefully when i install them for 2015 they will suddenly work again (hopefully)

[erobinson]

Yes thank you!

I tried it and worked no problem.