topic Re: lost menu ribbon in AutoCAD Architecture Customization Forum

lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:02:54 GMT

I was workingona project with autocad 2011, but i lsot the original menus, Ihave been obliged to use the costomed menu. I knew how to use Autocad 2000 and ADT 2002, I have not used them for years, and now I have become a novice. Please help!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: lost menu ribbon

David_W_Koch — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:26:55 GMT

Are you using AutoCAD Architecture 2011 or AutoCAD 2011?

What do you mean by you lost the "original" menus? Do you have no menu at all (no ribbon)? Or do you mean that the pull-down menus and toolbars are missing? If the latter, they are not missing, they have been removed from the ACA.cuix, in favor of the ribbon interface.

If you used the RIBBONCLOSE command to turn off the ribbon, the RIBBON command will turn it back on. Or, you can set the RIBBONSTATE system variable to 1.

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:27:26 GMT

Mr. David, Thank you soo much for your intrest in helping me. I am using a trial version of Autocad Architecture 2011. The problem started when I tried to revise the tools , I accidentally changed the program.

All that i can see now are : the save icon, undo and redo icon,print icon,project navigator icon, create a new file icon and a little bit more.

How do i bring back all the tools to the window of my current file?

Re: lost menu ribbon

David_W_Koch — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:32:56 GMT

See the attached image. Perhaps you have simply cycled the ribbon to a minimized state. If not, try typing RIBBON at the command prompt. If you turned the ribbon off, that will turn it back on. If both of those fail, check the Options dialog, on the Files tab, to see what Customization File has been specified. If that is blank, or points to a file that does not have ribbon tabs defined within it, you will not have any ribbon tabs.

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:14:53 GMT

You are right, thanks for you help (:, now it´s here again.

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:58:31 GMT

I have had that aproblem a few times too. But my current situation is that I lost my .cuix file that has the tabs and panels for my ribbon. Can't seem to find the right file.

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:50:18 GMT

Can ribbon that been used in autocad 2000 can be load in autocad civil 2010? i have problem load that ribbon. Please help.

Re: lost menu ribbon

autocad.phil — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 05:29:43 GMT

I just became a "I Lost My Ribbon" club member! I reinstalled the software/suite the other day (clean/full install, including registry trimming/wipeout). Today I signed into Autodesk 360 account and... bam.... it sent me to the bug report page. There I was wondering what happened. Later I started Autocad (blank file) and found my ribbon missing. I shut down Autocad, then opened a dwg file and it was still missing. I tried the RIBBONCLOSE, RIBBON, etc but it didn't help. The ribbon really is there... but totally blank:)

There I was thinking... no wonder... some people just refuse to use ribbons but the legacy menu system lol:) Here I am adventurous to use ribbons after avoiding it for many years ha ha:) Anyways, while messing around I went to the top-left corner (the A icon/menu) and found/selected something like "show menu bar" and it gave something like the "File Edit View Insert Format Tools" etc pulldown menus. Somewhere in there was an item related to Workspace and I selected "3D Modeling". Lo and behold... all my ribbons showed up again and it's all good!! 😄

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:01:17 GMT

Hi!

I use Autocad 2014 and I cant find my ribbons. I dont have the button to cycle through the states and even when I type ribbon in the command line, it does not seem to want to open. I checked the file path in Customization file and the specified file is : C\.......\autodesk\autocad 2014\r19.1\enu\support\acad

I also tried : C\......\autodesk\aca2014\enu\support\acad and it doesn't work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:26:18 GMT

To fix this, type 'cui' to open the 'Customize User Interface' window.
Make sure you are on the customize tab (should be default)
Make sure the top left window is expanded (the Customizations in All Files window)
Scroll to the very top and right-click 'ACA' or 'ACAD'
Then select 'Reset ACA.CUIX' or 'Reset ACAD.CUIX'
Click 'Continue' on the pop up window.
Then I had to close and re-open AutoCAD for the ribbon to reappear.
Hope this helps

Hans

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:11:12 GMT

Thanks this helps a lot 🙂

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:00:08 GMT

thanks

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:09:03 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
See the attached image. Perhaps you have simply cycled the ribbon to a minimized state. If not, try typing RIBBON at the command prompt. If you turned the ribbon off, that will turn it back on. If both of those fail, check the Options dialog, on the Files tab, to see what Customization File has been specified. If that is blank, or points to a file that does not have ribbon tabs defined within it, you will not have any ribbon tabs.

Thanks for the help David,

I had this happen also and just used your advice to correct it.

Wasn't real worried about it as I've got some bigger issues I'm stuck with right now...

Thanks

Erik

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2014 05:23:25 GMT

Hi all,

I am working on AutoCAD 2014. and I see my Ribbon not loading. I tried to run RIBBON command but still its not coming.

I am working on OS : Windows 2008 Server

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:09:15 GMT

Thanks Autocad.Phil! I was wading through the answers and getting nowhere when I saw your post. I already had the menubar (menubar=1), but had the same blank space where my ribbons should have been. My QAT was also missing.

I clicked on the Tools/Workspaces and then clicked ACADE &2D Drafting & Annotation and my Ribbons and QAT came back. I did lose the Menubar and had to turn it on again, but it looks like I am in business.

Re: lost menu ribbon

amusat90 — Wed, 18 May 2016 10:44:49 GMT

Thank you very much. Guys, make sure you press 'ok' and not 'apply'

Re: lost menu ribbon

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 05:50:10 GMT

Thank you very much.

Re: lost menu ribbon

marc — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:02:58 GMT

No panic ... just follow these steps (max. 30")

Close the program, .. then;

Windows
> Autodesk
> AutoCAD 201X
> Reset settings to default

> Problem solved

Kind regards, Marc CLT