topic Re: right click shortcut menu keeps disappearing in AutoCAD Architecture Forum

right click shortcut menu keeps disappearing

GODMAF — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:12:16 GMT

Mid drafting, my right click menu stopped offering the shortcut menu. Nothing happened to prompt it. It happened when I tried to right click my titleblock block to draw order it so I could get to a viewport edge. In the image below, I have selected several multileaders. I constantly use things like changing the overall scale from here. I have checked many pages of similar threads without avail.

I tried several things, including:

pickfirst 1

shortcutmenu 11

options/user preferences/windows standard behavior (both checked)

../right-click customization = off, shortcut, shortcut, shortcut when command

killing everything on menuload and reloading it

the CUI seems to have normal stuff... maybe I don't use it enough to recognize an issue, so there is a second picture.

I recently had to wipe cad to defaults to fix this same issue, and it failed to save anything, so it took HOURS to get it back to something like how I run it. I'm not looking to do that again, if it can be avoided.

I'm using architectural 2013.

Re: right click shortcut menu keeps disappearing

pendean — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:25:16 GMT

Greetings @GODMAF

Do you by chance just mean you want this right click menu from the plain-AutoCAD profile

BUT NOT this one from the ARCHITECTURE profile

Or something else?

Re: right click shortcut menu keeps disappearing

GODMAF — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 23:57:46 GMT

That's actually tough to answer, as I can't take a picture of what I would normally see, and have never explored the options. I just have a decade+ of being used to it, and am not sure I can easily describe what it SHOULD be. I'm in the right profile (hasn't changed). The one from architecture seems much more accurate. You having posted the picture lead to me toggling between them, and the architecture seems much more familiar, and is the profile I operate under (global).

Groping back in my mind, I'm pretty sure that I used to have draw order and many other options that i'm seeking semi-consciously. Now i seem not to have that. Maybe it's just that all my customization got randomly eliminated?

Re: right click shortcut menu keeps disappearing

pendean — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:46:49 GMT

@GODMAF wrote:Groping back in my mind, I'm pretty sure that I used to have draw order and many other options that i'm seeking semi-consciously. Now i seem not to have that. Maybe it's just that all my customization got randomly eliminated?

You most likely added those elements manually way back when, they where never present in OOTB installation of ARCH as far back as I can remember.

It's easy to do, just start CUI command, go to SHORTCUT MENUS then drag/drop/copy whatever you want from any other components in any tab or menu (or commands list on the CUI) to either the

Context menu for default mode

Context menu for edit mode

sections.

And moving forward, do what I do, and make a concerted effort to backup your ARCH setup often and regularly, so you can import them regularly if this issue ever arises again. Those tools are right there on your computer:

Re: right click shortcut menu keeps disappearing

David_W_Koch — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 22:02:50 GMT

@GODMAF

The draw order tools are available on the right-click context menu in AutoCAD Architecture. The oldest version to which I have access at the moment is 2018, but I do not believe there have been many changes to this in quite some time, so I expect the same would hold true for 2013.

They are not at the top-level context menu; you have to dig down to get to them. Still faster than typing, unless you set up command aliases.

AutoCAD Architecture 2018 Right-Click Context Menu

Re: right click shortcut menu keeps disappearing

GODMAF — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:33:23 GMT

Sounds about right -_-

Last time I tried that it told me my file was invalid. I had just restored, so I was left dangling at square one.