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Express Tools not working in Inventor's AutoCAD

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sbrusco
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Express Tools not working in Inventor's AutoCAD

Hi All,

 

I'm not sure where i should post this because it is a problem with AutoCAD, but only with the Inventor seats. All my plain AutoCAD seats are running their Express Tools correctly but the AutoCAD that comes with Inventor will not.

 

I have ET partial loaded in my custom menu, just like the plain seats, and it shows up in the pull-down menu and the ribbon but when i pick on any of the tools, it says "Unknown command."

 

Any suggestions?

 

Sal


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Message 2 of 8
kstate92
in reply to: sbrusco

A shot in the dark, but try (assuming Win 7 here) Control Panel > Programs and Features > right-click on AutoCAD Mechanical and pick Uninstall/Change, then pick Add or Remove Features and check the Express Tools box if not already checked.  I had to do this for a co-worker just last week (Inventor 2010, though).

KState92
Inventor Professional 2020
AutoCAD Mechanical 2022.0.1
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit - 1903
Core i7-8700 32 GB Ram
Quadro P2000
Message 3 of 8
Martin_Goodland
in reply to: sbrusco

Following the instructions in the link fixed it for me.

 

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=17317443&linkID=9240897

 

I have had a couple of machines with this issue.

 

Regards

 

Martin

Inventor 2023
Message 4 of 8
sbrusco
in reply to: kstate92

Thanks KState92 and Martin,

 

Your suggestions are the same and it did not work, although i DID have to check the Express Tools box to add it.

 

Do i have to reboot?


Message 5 of 8
kstate92
in reply to: sbrusco

Couldn't hurt to reboot.  What does running the EXPRESSTOOLS and EXPRESSMENU commands do?  You mentioned a CUI, IIRC; if it was from a prior version install, could it be pointing to a wrong (older) location?

KState92
Inventor Professional 2020
AutoCAD Mechanical 2022.0.1
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit - 1903
Core i7-8700 32 GB Ram
Quadro P2000
Message 6 of 8

Could you able to load the express tools in AutoCAD Mechanical successfully ?

 

Do let me know, if you need further assistance.



Vinod Balasubramanian
AutoCAD Industry Support & Escalation Lead

Message 7 of 8

Hi Vinod,

 

I just figured out the missing piece of the puzzle. I needed to add

C:\program files\autodesk\autocad 2013\express

to my Options>Files>Support File Search Path.

 

Apparently, this is not automatically added when you add Express Tools after the initial load.

 

Sal


Message 8 of 8

this is what I really needed, after reinstalling Express tools. Thanks!!

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