topic Re: Express tools menu not showing in AutoCAD Forum

Express tools menu not showing in the Ribbon !!

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:47:11 GMT

Good afternoon.

I have an installation of Autocad 2020 where I cannot see the express tools menu in the ribbon. Express tools is installed and working: I tried different commands like tcount, attin and estratt , but even if I lauch the commands expresstools or expressmenu from command line the menu in the ribbon still does not show. The expressmenu and the expresstools commands seem to to nothing. What could I try to make the express tools menu appear in the ribbon? I tried to look up in the forum but I didn't find anything that solved that issue

Re: Express tools menu not showing

pendean — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:41:27 GMT

Its a tab, not a menu, unless you want to turn on MENUBAR command to get all menus to appear.
If I may ask, how many tabs do you have in the Ribbon? Post a screenshot.

Have you tried changing workspaces and see if that Ribbon Tab appears?

Re: Express tools menu not showing

imadHabash — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:45:05 GMT

Hi,

>> What could I try to make the express tools menu appear in the ribbon?

right click on ribbon tab and select from show Tabs options.

Re: Express tools menu not showing

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:47:43 GMT

I tried to change workspace, but nothing changes. Here is the screenshot

Re: Express tools menu not showing

pendean — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:48:51 GMT

Try this solution https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/express-tools-menu-not-showing-in-the-ribbon/m-p/9634546#M1025675

Re: Express tools menu not showing

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:49:54 GMT

In my case there is no express tools tab to show. Please see the attached file

Re: Express tools menu not showing

imadHabash — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:12:26 GMT

if you type EXPRESSMENU in command line , any changes ?

Re: Express tools menu not showing

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:18:10 GMT

No, nothing happens. I don't even get an error, it looks like the command is executed, but nothing happens

Re: Express tools menu not showing

pendean — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:21:43 GMT

Start CUI command and let us know if you see EXPRESS installed?

Re: Express tools menu not showing

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:26:31 GMT

No, EXPRESS looks absent

Re: Express tools menu not showing

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:41:20 GMT

I loaded the acetmain.cuix file in CUI and now the tab is showing. Thanks to all that contributed.

for the record, I followed the instructions here to load the file

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/screencast/Main/Details/61ccb9f9-73e0-40ab-82cf-790b38dd1ab0.html

Re: Express tools menu not showing

thomas.kingQDNNE — Thu, 06 May 2021 00:19:16 GMT

Thank you! Many of the other solutions I tried did not work. The linked video was the way!