Can't find raster tools... Yes, I've read the other posts...

[manjuo]

Hi, 

It's the same issue, but everyone seems to this this: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-...

solves something and it doesn't. Raster tools cuix or folder ARE NOT IN IN THE FREAKING DOWNLOAD!!!!!!!!!! I redownloaded 2020, installed 2021 and checked 2018. I'm using Mechanical and architectural, and neither of them have it. 

Someone accepted "It's a separate download" as a solution to a thread. If so, where's the download location? Why would the education package give stress analyses and not raster design tools, and why does it SAY that it's included and students get it free. Who's accepting these solutions? Ar they actually trying or giving up, like I will be after this rant?

BUT, I do have Ltools commands which I read is a command to do something withraster tools, so they must be somewhere in there. Unfortunately, everyone references buttons and not commands I would also rather have the toolbar as well and  think it's stupid that everytime I use AutoCAD I waste hours on crap like this. 

I think most people are doin what I am and after posting this doing it in GIMP and Inkspace, which I should have done in the first place. 

[Patchy]

takes one minute to search and get it.

[RobDraw]

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@manjuo wrote:

Who's accepting these solutions?  

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The OP or in a rare case a moderator will.

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@manjuo wrote:

Ar they actually trying or giving up, like I will be after this rant?

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Posters usually mark a solution unless it actually works. It's got nothing to do with whether or not it will work for you but in this case, if it doesn't, you are probably missing something. It's been a long time since I've used Raster tools but, when I did, it was a different shortcut to get AutoCAD to start with it enabled. Maybe you will read this before you give up and maybe it will help you, maybe not. Either way, thanks for stopping by (just to dump a rant) and good luck.

[manjuo]

Thank you for your 2 s search. Now, try to actually download it from the download center. If you are able to do that, opposed to going to pages saying it's included in AutoCAD, as it says everywhere except for the one thread that said it's another download, then would it be possible to let me know HOW you actually installed it onto AutoCAD? 

If you look at the link, you'll see there is a reported issue with the menu for the toolbar. But the solution there did no work for me. So I would love to hear your resolution. Maybe you can screencast the solution! 

Thanks in advance!

[ChicagoLooper]

Enter MENULOAD on command line. Take a screenshot and upload it.

[manjuo]

@ChicagoLooper : Thanks for your interest. Here's what's happening so far. I don't know where to go from here....

 Menuload...

Customization files in ACAD Support folder

Folder structure for Autodesk where AeCco.cuix copy should be...

 

From https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCA...

[ChicagoLooper]

1. Go here:C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Raster Design 20XX\UserDataCache\Support
2. Copy this to clipboard:AeCo.cuix
3. Paste contents of the clipboaed here: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\<product folder>\RXX.X\<language>\Support
4. Restart AutoCAD

[manjuo]

Hi @ChicagoLooper 

If you see the last picture in the previous message, you will see there is no folder in my programfiles autodesk folder called AutoCAD Raster Design. Or is it there and I don't see it? For those that start with AutoCAD I see:

AutoCAD 2018

AutoCAD 2020

AutoCAD 2021

And then the next one is 

Autodesk AdSSO

Or is there somewhere else I am supposed to look? 

[manjuo]

You will also see that I had copied the link to the page where you got that solution in the original message and right after the last picture of the one before you replied with the thing I just showed you I can't do. 

[manjuo]

That is the problem.... If you have a solution for that, it would be great.

[manjuo]

Just in case I took a screenshot of the Autodesk folder in Program Files 86 so no one wastes our time asking me to check that folder..... 

[ChicagoLooper]

Wrong folder. That’s not the correct folder. You are skimming, not reading. If you are carefully reading the post then you’ d be looking in the right folder. 

Opening the correct folder is not like buying a used car, it’s not negotiable. Either you’re in the right folder or you’re not. 

Read the correct subfolder’s location and you'll be fine. Act like you already know which folder to open and you’ll fail. 

[manjuo]

Before I get other suggestions I've already tried, please see the following proof:

That Raster Design is not loaded in my computer:

So I can't repair it.

That I have installed everything that AutoCAD comes with:

 

Regardless,  I tried and successfully "repaired" AutoCAD

 

That a search on the C disk for AeCo.cuix, as recommended by @ChicagoLooper, returns no matches.

That a search for AeCco.cuix, as recommended on https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-...

also returns no matches:

 

If someone has the C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Raster Design 2021 folder maybe they can zip it and upload it? Then I can just put it in the correct place and move on to the next thing that doesn't work? 

[manjuo]

I didn't upload two of the same pictures, but the program files folder was ABOVE your reply to go there. I took the 86 one so you didn't aske me for that too.

Or was that one C:\Program Files\Autodesk

Not correct?

[manjuo]

I agree, either you read or skim. So, I'm not really sure how this is the wrong folder path: C:\Program Files\Autodesk, but I've added another picture of the same thing JIC

How is this incorrect?

[ChicagoLooper]

Go to post #7 and perform step 1. Take a screenshot of the SUPPORT folder and upload it. Do not proceed to step 2. 

[manjuo]

Go to post 6 and see the pictures. There are 3. The second is the support folder. 

[manjuo]

Hi,

As an update, the Factory Design Utilities cuix is not there either. Here is the support folder: 

  

 

[RobDraw]

Have you considered going nuclear? 

[manjuo]

I’m already maxed out on the crazy, if that’s what you’re referencing. Otherwise, I don’t know what you mean.