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ELOQUINTET

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~menu problems in 2005/3.3
« on: August 10, 2004, 01:31:55 PM »
i asked this question before but now it's really getting on my nerves. i recently installed 2005 and when i work with 3.3 which is what everybody else uses here i get acan't find menu group message which takes about four clicks to cancel out of everytime i open a drawing. now i'm working on someone elses drawing who has all the drawings seperated so i gotta have about 10 files open to work on the set. i really need some help resolving this. i have installed 2005 at home along with 2002 and have no prob. when i open a drawing after i cancel it will be in menuload at the command line which i have to cancel as well. if i go into toolbars and check my custom toolbar nothing shows up and if i click on any of the sub groups autocad crashes no questions asked. anyway i really need some help you guys it's drivin me insane...

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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2004, 01:54:02 PM »
do you know where the menu group is located? Perhaps adding that to the 3.3 search file path.
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ELOQUINTET

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« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2004, 01:56:56 PM »
don't really know which menu it is refering to but all of my paths are still there. i seem to get the message when express tools is at command line so i uninstalled and reinstalled and nadda. can't figure it out.

ELOQUINTET

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« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2004, 02:00:51 PM »
on the verge of just uninstalling 2005 here at work as i'm just using it in my spare time to get familiar with new stuff.

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« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2004, 02:06:12 PM »
is every one there using a custom menu that gets loaded from a network drive? Can you upload a screen shot of the error msg. box?

also how are you opening the dwgs? Dbl. click the file name in Explorer or from acad?
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« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2004, 02:08:14 PM »
try unloading the express tools menu.
menuload
select express (or whatever it's called)
click unload
close & restart acad.
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ELOQUINTET

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« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2004, 02:13:51 PM »
no this is my toolbars located in my docs. i'm opening in autocad

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« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2004, 02:30:11 PM »
so 3.3 can't find your custom menus?
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ELOQUINTET

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« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2004, 02:43:21 PM »
nope can't find i guess my menu. if i go load the menu then go to toolbars to mine and check any it crashes. i uninstalled 2005 and still get same thing.

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« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2004, 03:44:58 PM »
then do a fix on 3.3
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« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2004, 04:27:22 PM »
uh don't have the disc would have to have the it guy come in. he still has yet to fix my popup problem which should give you an indication of how useful he is. can i run repair on it without disc?

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« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2004, 05:31:48 PM »
no
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ELOQUINTET

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« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2004, 07:05:47 PM »
hmmm i'm tempted to just install my version of straight acad 2002 on my machine at work as i don't use much of adt anyway. the it guy would prolly have a cow for not using licensed software but i gotta work and he "to put it bluntly" sucks so hey what am i supposed to do. still pondering whether i should or not. or just have him repair it as he won't just give me the disc and let me do it myself. anyway thanks for the suggestions i'll keep ya posted

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« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2004, 07:54:55 PM »
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hmmm i'm tempted to just install my version of straight acad 2002 on my machine at work as i don't use much of adt anyway. the it guy would prolly have a cow for not using licensed software but i gotta work and he "to put it bluntly" sucks so hey what am i supposed to do. still pondering whether i should or not. or just have him repair it as he won't just give me the disc and let me do it myself. anyway thanks for the suggestions i'll keep ya posted
To keep you out of hot water, let the IT guy do it.  The first rule of this business is "make sure it is not your fault".  That means doing everything you're supposed to do, and let everyone else do the same.  You get caught with unlicensed software, and it becomes your fault in a hurry. If the IT guy can't fix it, it becomes his fault.

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« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2004, 09:14:44 PM »
Then you go to your Boss and tell him that you are down and the IT guy can't fix it. You have a fix you want to try , but Mr. IT won't let you. Ask Boss if he really wants you to sit there at less than 100% productivity. Sometimes you have to hang the IT guy. They know netwoks and windows, but NONE that I have met know didly squat about AutoCad.

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« Reply #15 on: August 11, 2004, 05:17:34 AM »
as far as i'm aware if you have 10 licences, and 9 operating licenced stations and 1 "non-licenced" version running, and "the other" licence not running, then legally you are o.k.  It may not be Company policy but you won't go to the slammer.  you get into deep sh*t with the software provider but a licence is only permission to use the software NOT the software.

Our IT guy first had 2000 nt running on his machine, changed to XP int the early days of XP (i.e. no drivers for the hadware he was running and it kept crashing) so reverted back to a pirated 2000 NT ( he had to give his original one back, and they wont supply "old" software, they were pushing XP like mad at the time ) but he had the XP CD but he wasn't using it  and the xp licence was a "superior/newer" licence which superseeded any 2000 NT licence he would have had anyway.  He's using XP now  but it got him out of a fix for a while.


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« Reply #16 on: August 11, 2004, 07:18:09 AM »
Quote from: Dent Cermak
Sometimes you have to hang the IT guy.
Like a bunny in a swamp.   :D

ELOQUINTET

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« Reply #17 on: August 12, 2004, 11:13:43 AM »
well i did a reinstall and still having same problem. maybe it has to do with it setup. i'm wondering does anybody know why i would get this (see below) when loading, what is yellow yellow yellow etc.?

Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Text / Dimension Style Changer Loaded, Type TDS to run
Yellow /nText Increment Loaded, Enter TxtInc to run.
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow

daron

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« Reply #18 on: August 12, 2004, 12:59:33 PM »
You usually get that as a return value from autoloading lisps.

CADaver

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« Reply #19 on: August 12, 2004, 01:21:15 PM »
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Yellow
Yellow
Are you using "AUTOTABS" or someother drawing tab creator?

ELOQUINTET

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« Reply #20 on: August 12, 2004, 01:23:02 PM »
no nuttin

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« Reply #21 on: August 12, 2004, 02:07:21 PM »
Looks like you have a bunch of autoloading lisp that you probably don't want.  Check your search path you have set up in Autocad, and make sure there are no autoload files (acad.lsp, acaddoc.lsp, etc.) in those directories.  If there are, look at them and make sure they aren't doing anything you don't want.

These files are loaded if they exist in the search path.  Autocad's uninstall does not erase files, it merely uninstalls the software so that it won't work.  So, unless you manually deleted directories and files after doing your uninstall, you can still have a lot of stuff from your old installation hanging around.

You should also look at your acad.mnl file and make sure it's not doing anything funky.