After the last issue with ACAD and Vista my IT director has finally decided I can have a new computer... In April. So I need to know what people think would be good graphics cards, processors, etc. for ACAD 2012 & 2013. I say 12 because most times I'm in 13 something goes wrong (Vista). So I have gone back to 12.how to use the Ribbon now and I guess I'll have to learn Windows 7 too. I like my XP and toolbars and I'll miss them.
View 9 RepliesI am trying to customize Autocad 2012 ribbon tab. I can't seem to find how to mimic the small arrow that appears in several of the standard menus. For example, in the 3D Solids - Home Tab, the second panel from the left is "3D Solids Home - Mesh" It has a small arrow in the corner that opens up a preferences dialogue box.
How can I add that arrow to a custom panel with that little arrow so that I can add my command to it?
Where are the bits of the Ribbon API to add a slide out to a ribbon panel?
Autodesk.Windows.RibbonControl ribbonControl = Autodesk.Windows.ComponentManager.Ribbon; RibbonTab Tab = new RibbonTab(); ribbonControl.Tabs.Add(Tab); // create Ribbon panels Autodesk.Windows.RibbonPanelSource panel1Panel = new RibbonPanelSource(); panel1Panel.Title = "Panel1"; RibbonPanel Panel1 = new RibbonPanel(); Panel1.Source = panel1Panel; Tab.Panels.Add(Panel1);
I saw some source that hinted you could use panel1Panel.AddSlideout() but in the search I do not see any Ribbon API that allows for any slideout functionality?Do you *have* to use the CUI API for this?
I have created a custom ribbon in vb.net. And it works now.
However. To make it work i had to do a workaround because IExtensionApplication.Initialize is apparently run before the Ribbon is created in AutoCAD. To make it work i created a time that runs until the ribbon is created.
But i think this is implementation is flawed since i had to do the workaround, but also because the ribbon disappearse when the ribbon is updated. Say when the user changes something in the CUI menu.
Partial Public Class BenteMenu Implements IExtensionApplication Dim WithEvents WSARibPanel As RibbonPanel Dim WithEvents ReformerRibPanel As RibbonPanel Dim WithEvents CNVPanel As RibbonPanel Dim WithEvents ModelPanel As
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I am using ACAD MEP 2012. While i was working on a drawing my AutoCAD session locked up and terminated the program, not thinking anything of it i just restarted ACAD and started working on the same drawing. I noticed the ribbon looks different and now all the command buttons are not showing up under the tabs they are ALL in dropdown windows now. I don't know what happened to the original ribbon setup but it is definitely not what it used to be. Attached below are pics of what i am referring to. The first picture is what it used to look like, the second and third pictures are what they look like now.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have successfully created the ribbon tab in Autocad2010 and its load on start up of Autocad. When i change my workspace my ribbon tab disappear is there any way i can make my tab available in all workspaces.
I am not using CUI Customization.
I have Cad 2013 and don't know how to set up the ribbon style workspace. Ihad set it up a while ago in 2011 and labeled my workspace as KPRIBBON. This workspaceis selected, but the classic CAD Is still the view now in 2013.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am new to AutoCAD and am trying to self teach myself using the autocad bible as a reference. I am on chapter 3 and was following the suggestions for moving the ribbon by undocking it. Great, but now I can't get it back to the top where it started. It moves left and right just fine. I tried undo 100, no luck. I tried restarting my computer but it has now transfered to all of my practice drawings as well, all have the ribbon on the side.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to orientate the ribbon horizontally so that I can have it along the top of my second monitor? It seems that while undocked it only goes vertically.
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen I tried downloading and installing this INCREMENT app from the Exchange Store. First, I can't get this to run at all. If I go into the CUI settings dialogue, I don't see this plug-in listed anywhere where it should appear. It had occurred to me that maybe the only way this app works is from the plug-in tab and not from the command line, but I'm not sure that makes any sense, either seems it should work either way, if I'm interpreting the documentation correctly. But, I cannot make my ribbon tab appear to check out my probably mistaken theory (see above). Navigating around the CUI dialogue and checking the settings for my tab, I see that it is set to "show" and there is every indication that it should appear, but there seems to be something buggy or suspicious going on with the
Control-0 (clean screen) toggle and/or the Control-9 (command line) toggle as well?I don't see how either of these would have any affect on the visibility of my tab, if they were toggled to the correct setting. I am the only person using this workstation so it's not like there is a profile issue at work here.
In the Default.ivb I have created a function that creates a new panel and adds some buttons in the panel.
I see the panel and the buttons, but nothing happens when I click on them.
The documentation says that in order to listen to the events of my buttons I should declare a "Private WithEvents ButDef As ButtonDefinition", but it when I try I get an error message "Only valid in object module"
Another question, still related to the events, I would expect to find a _StartUp event where I should run my function, but I can't find that event.
A sample code for creating a dropdown menu for a AutoCAD ribbon toolbar? I can attach buttons and so on to the toolbar, but I cannot make a drop down menu.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to find the individual icons in the ribbon back in my Autocad Lite. For example all the small icons under the "Clip" tab have disappeared.
How do I get them back?
How to activate specific Tab on the Ribbon by VB.Net code? Exist any way how to "bring to front" my own Ribbon Tab?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been using the ribbon api to create my custom ribbon. I am now attempting to load said rribbon at startup by placing the load command into the initialize componant. It isn't working.
Dim ribCntrl As Autodesk.Windows.RibbonControl = Autodesk.Windows.ComponentManager.Ribbon
If ComponentManager.Ribbon Is Nothing Then
Return
End If
For i As Integer = 0 To ribCntrl.Tabs.Count - 1
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I seem to remember being told it's because the ribbon .dll hasn't yet started at this point sso it has nothing to use to load it?
I turned on my AutoCAD LT 2011 this morning at work, and I didn't have any panels or tabs on the top ribbon. After searching for a way to turn them on, I found a way to remove the ribbon completely and am unable to get it back. How can I get my ribbon with tabs and panels back on the top of the screen?
View 9 Replies View Relatedis it possible to add a textbox to the ribbons in Inventor 2013?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am trying to create a ribbon of my own, and the code and execution is fine, but I am not able to put the images.
my images are not more than 1 kb in size and are stored in the resources.resources1.... how do I get them to display.
I am trying to work with the available code found in one of the training sessions,
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'on one of my subs I am calling this function
'ribBtn.LargeImage = LoadImage("FR.png")
Private Shared Function LoadImage(ByRef ImageName As String) As Imaging.BitmapImage
Dim bi As New System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage()
bi.BeginInit()
bi.StreamSource = GetEmbeddedResourceStream("MyRibbon_Autocad." & ImageName)
bi.EndInit() ' When i debug the code, the code is exiting at this point, i am assuming it is not getting initialised.
Return bi
End Function
Protected Shared Function GetEmbeddedResourceStream(ByVal ResourceName As String) As Stream
Return System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(ResourceName)
End Function
I dont see any error, but the ribbon is getting generated but withut any images, just a plane ribbon.
How the actual file location of a drawing can be shown on the ribbon insert of just the file names. For example, file name BOM.dwg is located in C:custom---. Currently, the tool bar is showing AutoCAD BOM. dwg but I want it to show AutoCAD C:custom---.
View 2 Replies View Relatedthis newbie question. I could not figure it out how to do this.
I found a sample project named RibbonSample in which by running a command, a new tab will be added to the ribbon.
I am trying to have that tab added upon loading the dll. So I added that command in the constructor of the dll, by "
SendStringToExecute" command. But the new tab did not show up. Then I added the method which creates the tab in the constructor, and I found the same thing. In both cases, when I type the command for creating the ribbon tab, a second tab, along with the first tab I added in the constructor, show up.
So I guess two possible options I have: first, find a way to make the new ribbon tab to be shown at first place, when the dll is loaded. Second, to find a way to postpone running a command added in the constructor of the dll, until the dll is loaded, so it can run like when I type it.
I don't use MLINE much (and thought the command was DLINE) and wanted to draw 2 parallel lines. I found I could type MLINE and do what I want.
I'm trying to get used to the Ribbon and wanted to find it there, but after several minutes wasted looking all over the Ribbon, I never found it. The Help showed the ICON of 2 parallel diagonal lines but I can't find it anywhere.
Acad 2013 32bit on XP Pro...I use the Ribbon as a palette.I'm creating a Dynamic Block with 3 visibility states (Plan, Front, Side).When I try to change from one visibility state to another using the Ribbon pull-down it keeps reverting back to the previous view.
To make it stick I have to use the visibility state dialogue box.
I've recently started using Map 2011 and am not happy with the new ribbon. Most of the commands that I use for setting up my maps seem to have been removed from the ribbon. Is there a way so that the ribbon set up from Map 2010 can be used in 2011? I just got used to the layout in 2010 and then everything changes.
View 3 Replies View RelatedDim icon_Main As IPictureDisp icon_Main = PictureDispConverter.ToIPictureDisp(My.Resources.Garant)Dim controlDefs As ControlDefinitions = m_ inventorApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitionsbt_main = controlDefs.AddButtonDefinition("Projektmanager", "int_projekt", Command TypesEnum.kFilePropertyEditCmdType, app_guid, "beschreibung blabla", "tooltip", icon_Main, icon_Main, ButtonDisplayEnum.kAlwaysDisplayText).
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When i start this code, a nice tab shows up when i open an assembly, good!But Now i want to show the same tab with the same button in Part Ribbon.
I created a custom ribbon for my collection of blocks.
I want to arrange the buttons in three columns each with about 5 to 10 rows.
The ribbon is nicely created, except that all rows are shown.
I would like to see only the first three rows and the next rows as a drop down.
Like in the Draw-section of the home tab in AutoCAD 2013.
Everytime I try to attach a Hyperlink to a dwg via the ribbon Hyperlink button I receive a FATAL ERROR: Unhandled Access Violation Reading 0x0000 Exception at e1e7b028h.
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow I can get a form onto the ribbon or create a custom Icon to run it.
I have read up on afew forums that VB needs to be used in order to achive this but I want to double check.
I dont have VB but if it is the only way to get this to work I will download it.
i downloaded this version of cad and before i had only worked with the 2007 version at school and its very different. But what i need is a cool ribbon so i can work but for some bizarre reason all of my pallets in my ribbon is completely weird and funky and the cad came like this
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how to get the FEA box to appear in the ribbon in Mechanical Destop?
View 7 Replies View Relatedsomehow i have changed how the ribbon buttons are displayed. instead of being expanded and showing all the commands on the button, it only shows the button tittle. one of then shows "DRAW" . when i click on it, it shows all the sub commands. how do i get it to expand and show all the subcommands without clicking on it. it was showing them before, however, i changed a setting and cannot find it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAutocad 2010, when I open it, it appears no ribbon? see this: Untitled.jpg
How can I relaunch the ribbon. I do not know how come in the way. I closed it yesterday, but when I open it this morning, the ribbon didn't appear.