topic Re: Problems with menues in AutoCAD for Mac Forum

Problems with menues

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 06:48:21 GMT

Hi everyone'

I've been using Autocad Autodesk 2015 on a windows pc and now moved over to a Mac. Downloaded Autocad 2015 (Mac version) and do not have the same menus (see below). Can anyone help or give me a link to a video tutorial that can?

Thanks in advance.

windows PC Autocad menu

Re: Problems with menues

tramber — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 07:22:25 GMT

According to me (can't remember if I'm right), you can use the MENUBAR tool turned to 1 in a Mac too. It should work.

But you won't get the same menu, the ribbon menu. You'll get the "classic" menu.

Re: Problems with menues

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:06:06 GMT

@tramber wrote:
According to me (can't remember if I'm right), you can use the MENUBAR tool turned to 1 in a Mac too. It should work.
But you won't get the same menu, the ribbon menu. You'll get the "classic" menu.

Sorry, I'm new to AutoCad. Can you explain how I do it?

Re: Problems with menues

tramber — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:14:10 GMT

MENUBAR to hit on the keyboard and to set to 1

Nothing is more simple. You didn't tell you are new ?

Re: Problems with menues

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:46:55 GMT

@tramber wrote:
MENUBAR to hit on the keyboard and to set to 1
Nothing is more simple. You didn't tell you are new ?

Sorry, but you lack communication skills and perhaps patience. Yes I'm new to AutoCad and Mac, but that should have been apparent to you, but perhaps because English isn't your first language, it's not. if you're not going to be patient and understanding, then perhaps you shouldn't be troubling yourself with helping others. What seems to you, who has been working with Mac, to be 'simple' is obviously NOT to other's like myself.

Thanks for your 'trouble', but don't bother yourself anymore.

Re: Problems with menues

tramber — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:05:12 GMT

Waouh !

I DIDN'T know that you were new to AutoCAD, right ?! I understood that you were a user who don't know about MENUBAR, wich is very understandable.

I gave you a command (variable) name. That is all for me. Sorry if I did wrong.

Re: Problems with menues

pendean — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:58:44 GMT

You cannot get the Windows look on the MAC interface of AutoCAD: they are totally separate and will never match.

Re: Problems with menues

tramber — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:41:15 GMT

He is maybe missing the palettes....a CTRL+0 (alpha keyboard) works under mac, I guess.

(To recover them if they diseappered, what we can't see for sure on the capture)

The palettes and the menubar is all we can get, Isn't it ?

Re: Problems with menues

maxim_k — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:18:13 GMT

I believe OP question was about Ribbon which we can see on the screenshot, and not about menubar.
If so, then there is no Ribbon in AutoCAD for Mac: Dean already mentioned - interface of AutoCAD on Windows and on Mac are totally separate and will never match.

Maxim

Re: Problems with menues

tramber — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:32:36 GMT

I know. I give courses (including mac back to 2013, the first).

We gave the best answers. MENUBAR to 1 is not an innocent advice from me. And I wish I knew if this was helpful.

There is no ribbon and there is.

When you Hatch for exemple.

Re: Problems with menues

maxim_k — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:05:22 GMT

>>> When you Hatch for exemple.
Yes, on Mac there is a kind of "contextual ribbon panels" which appear during specific commands: HATCH (creation and edit)? ARRAY (creation and edit), MTEXT (...), etc. They are called "Visors" and are very helpful.

As about MENUBAR - there is no such system variable in AutoCAD for Mac, because Menu bar in macOS is OS specific UI element and is always visible with the exception of full screen mode, when macOS hides it and it shows only when you move mouse to the top of the screen or use Control+F2 shortcut to move focus to menubar (if this shortcut is enabled in macOS System preferences).

On the second OP's screenshot there is no AutoCAD related menu items on macOS menubar, because the focus was moved to another application (Debut Video Capture Software in that case).

Maxim

Re: Problems with menues

tramber — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:43:39 GMT

Ok done.

Really thought that MENUBAR variable could be available (at 85%) !

And nobody of my (sometimes) student ever showed me that we can hide it (by a "mac" mean).

About the screen capture, I had a doubt and this is good you tell that another app was concerned.

I teach in theaters and shows and concert techniques. It is full of macs !

Not too difficult to teach but quite a long way to do at beginning when some PC users are there too.

And there is no mac emulator (I guess) so it is impossible to train efficiently.

"Visors" ?! official ? I should look if translated so in my language.

Re: Problems with menues

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:40:38 GMT

@pendean wrote:
You cannot get the Windows look on the MAC interface of AutoCAD: they are totally separate and will never match.

Thanks Dean

Re: Problems with menues

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 05:07:12 GMT

@maxim_k wrote:
I believe OP question was about Ribbon which we can see on the screenshot, and not about menubar.
If so, then there is no Ribbon in AutoCAD for Mac: Dean already mentioned - interface of AutoCAD on Windows and on Mac are totally separate and will never match.

Maxim

Thanks Maxim_k, I'll just have to get used to the different Ribbon.

While I'm at it can you direct me to where I'll find the 'view' icon, to insert dimensions from the 2D view?

Kind regards

Re: Problems with menues

maxim_k — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 05:25:01 GMT

Leonard,

VIEWBASE command is not available in AutoCAD for Mac. On Mac you can only view and print the results of Model views, created in AutoCAD for PC.
On Mac you can use only old fashioned SOLVIEW, SOLDRAW commands to create in 2D projections of 3D Solids in Paper space viewports.

Maxim

Re: Problems with menues

pendean — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:50:37 GMT

Friend, check it page out and click on the i-in-a-circle icons to get a more detailed description of the topic, if you truly know AutOCAd for WIndows you can learn a lot from it https://www.autodesk.com/compare/compare-features/autocad-products

This one you are looking or comes under "model documentation" on that page.