topic Re: My Menu Bar desappeared in AutoCAD LT Forum

AutoCAD LT - My Menu Bar desappeared

diegosales7HP9H — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:37:02 GMT

Good afternoon,

According to the picture attached, the options desappeared. How can I fix it?

[ The subject line of this post has been edited to include the product name by @handjonathan ]

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

imadHabash — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:45:35 GMT

Hi,

At the Command prompt, enter MENUBAR. Enter 1 to display the menu bar.
Or .. At the top-left of the application window, on the right end of the Quick Access toolbar, click the drop-down menu >> Show Menu Bar.

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

TheCADnoob — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:54:24 GMT

What do you see in your cui?

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-is-missing-options-in-the-menu-bar.html

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

pendean — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:20:20 GMT

@diegosales7HP9H

Your menu bar is on, three words right there in your screenshot, FILE WINDOW HELP.

MENUBAR is the command name, is it on?

OR do you mean your Ribbon? RIBBON command may do it.

Did you restart your computer yet? Fixes it for most users.

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

diegosales7HP9H — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:18:35 GMT

Hello. I want all those options appear on the screen again, like Insert, Annotate, etc.

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

cadffm — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:35:55 GMT

In your Profile are the wrong settings (wrong path to the Main cuix file),

or the file was deleted on your hd.

Start Command OPTIONS

Tab FILES

node Customazation Files -> Main... -> c:\users\<userid>\Roaming\Autodesk\Autocad LT 2022\<Rnn>\<lan>

\support\acadlt

If not: Which path is there?

or is it blank? If so, try to add the path

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

diegosales7HP9H — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:48:45 GMT

The main customization file is empty. How Do I add it?

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

cadffm — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:51:40 GMT

Select the "empty" field and press the button [Browse] on the right,

then try to follow my path (for <userid> <Rnn> <lan> you have to use your folders, because your name is another than my and lan(guage) is DEUtsch, yours not 😉 (or?)

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

diegosales7HP9H — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:09:32 GMT

Well, I recovered following your steps, but the format is different. Do I have to load the Enterprise Customization file ?

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

diegosales7HP9H — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:11:08 GMT

To be shown like this:

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

cadffm — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:32:36 GMT

Run RIBBON command

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

pendean — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:00:39 GMT

RESET AutoCADLT, it looks like you might have more messed up items that initially thought, here is how

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-reset-AutoCAD-to-defaults.html

Or reinstall LT https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-repair-AutoCAD-Installation.html

Also ensure that you have installed the 2022.1.2 Update: ABOUT command will confirm what you have installed. If not, get it from your Autodesk Account Page here https://manage.autodesk.com/cep/#products-services/updates
Restart your PC afterwards.

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

diegosales7HP9H — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:01:13 GMT

Look: I typed the Ribbon command:

Nothing...

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

cadffm — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:05:37 GMT

Use command WSCURRENT and accept the default value..

But in your case, I think there is much more brocken and pendeans answer is the best in this situation: RESET AutoCADLT

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

diegosales7HP9H — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:15:26 GMT

Thank you very much! God Bless!

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

davetheplanman — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 03:45:16 GMT

Just get used to working without the ribbon. it never stays up there and is constantly rearranging itself to the point of being more frustrating than useful. If anybody could ever figure a way to seriously lock the damm thing in place, that would be greatly appreciated.

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

TheCADnoob — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:05:22 GMT

Id caution against not using the Ribbon. I know There are a lot of users that don't like it, but i don't see it going away anytime soon and the contextual ribbons can be extremely helpful. Also if you are looking for or find yourself needing assistance, the tutorials and people assisting you likely be using the modern interfaces.

We have a few users that do not use the ribbon and one some of the vertical, they literally cannot do some tasks without it.

When it comes to things moving you can search out the command by clicking in the A and searching.

All that said, i get it. One of the beauties of this program is the ability to customize as much as it allows. And i have seen some extremely efficient users using the toolbar style interface.

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

davetheplanman — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:33:28 GMT

You bet and thanks! Yes I did love the ribbon- I just got sick of fighting it!

Thx,

Dave

Re: My Menu Bar desappeared

pendean — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 21:11:45 GMT

@davetheplanman wrote:

Just get used to working without the ribbon. it never stays up there and is constantly rearranging itself to the point of being more frustrating than useful. If anybody could ever figure a way to seriously lock the damm thing in place, that would be greatly appreciated.

Well, that's a very unusual problem for sure: what version as listed in ABOUT command are you using, and what is your OS?

And what else did you try to fix it instead of just turning it off?

Or is this perhaps what the problem is that you call "changing itelf" https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-maximize-the-ribbon-panels.html

Or this https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Display-Hatch-dialog-box-instead-of-the-ribbon.html

Or....?

Re: AutoCAD LT - My Menu Bar desappeared

davetheplanman — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:43:38 GMT

Actually it's not that unusual at all. Constant battle- definitely doing it's own thing and I didn't turn it off- it vanishes and reappears whenever it wants! It hasn't pestered me for awhile, so maybe I finally destroyed the beast!

The issue with the ribbon as a long time user (Ver 2.6 circa 1987) is as follows: AutoDesk got so cutesy with the interface that it now that it freaks out and disappears / turns sideways / and is just a general nuisance.

Same with the "Insert" command. WTF happened to that thing- holy smokes I quit using that as well when ACAD went through the cutesy phase. The cutesy phase creates real headaches for 1 man shows or smaller Offices. Most don't have an IT dept and definitely don't have TIME to monkey with stuff that has worked for years before they screwed with it.

Stuff needs to work reliably straight out of the box, without spending hours playing with it- You know, how it used to "pre-cutesy" days!

Im at: Product Version T.53.0.0 AAD Lt 2023. I just downloaded 2 nights ago, so it should be the latest.

Thanks again for the heads up on that!

Dave