Can't See Ribbons or Menus (Land F/X or ACAD)
Issue
You are unable to see some or all of your AutoCAD (ACAD) or Land F/X ribbons and/or menus. For example, your ACAD ribbons may be visible but you can't see your Land F/X ribbons. Or you can see all your pull-down menus but none of your ribbons. Read on for all the possible combinations of ribbons and menus that you can and can't see, and how to make everything visible.
Important: Do not uninstall Land F/X at this point! Uninstalling will lead to a whole new set of problems.
Other common issues with ribbons:
What are you seeing/not seeing?
Cause
Your AutoCAD menus are unloaded (or loaded improperly), and your ribbons are turned off.
Solution
Step 1: Unload and reload the ACAD menus.
Type MENULOAD in the Command line, and press Enter.
Then follow our steps to unload and reload your ACAD menus.
Step 2: Load the Land F/X menus.
Follow our steps to load your Land F/X menus.
Step 3: Enable the ribbons and menus (if necessary).
Enable the ribbons
Type RIBBON in the Command line, and press Enter. You should now see all your ribbons.
Enable the menus (if necessary)
If you don't see your pull-down menus, type MENUBAR in the Command line and press Enter.
When prompted to enter a value, type 1 and press Enter.
You should now see all your ribbons and menus.
Still don't see your ribbons or menus? Move on to the next step.
Step 4: Run our latest Workstation installer.
If you still can't see your ribbons and/or menus, follow our steps to download and run the latest version of the Land F/X Workstation installer.
Still don't see your ribbons or menus? Move on to the next step.
Step 5: Load your menus manually.
Follow our steps to load your AutoCAD menus.
Then follow our steps to load your Land F/X menus.
You should now see your ribbons and menus.
Still don't see your ribbons or menus? Follow our manual workstation installation steps.
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Cause
Your Land F/X menus have become unloaded, making your ribbons invisible.
Solution
1. Download and run our latest Land F/X Workstation installer.
Don't see your Land F/X ribbons? Move on to the next step.
2. If you don't see your Land F/X ribbons at this point, follow our steps to load your Land F/X menus.
Once you've loaded your Land F/X menus, your ribbons should all be visible.
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Cause
Your menubar is turned off, which makes your menus invisible.
Solution
Type MENUBAR in the Command line, and press Enter. When prompted to enter a value, type 1 and press Enter.
Your pull-down menus should now be visible.
Still don't see your menus? Move on to the next step.
If your menus are still invisible, you'll need to unload and reload your Land F/X menus.
Tpe MENULOAD in the Command line. Then follow our instructions to unload and reload your Land F/X menus.
You should now see your menus.
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You might see the Land F/X menus to the right or left of the AutoCAD menus.
You might also notice that "LFX User" is the only available workspace to select from the Workspace Switching menu in the bottom right corner of your CAD interface.
Cause
Your ribbons are turned off, which makes them invisible.
Solution
Step 1: Try enabling the ribbons.
In many cases, you can simply turn your ribbons back on. Type RIBBON in the Command line and press Enter.
Don't see the ribbons? Move on to the next step.
Step 2: Unload and Reload the ACAD Menus.
Type MENULOAD in the Command line, and press Enter.
In the Load/Unload Customizations dialog box, highlight ACAD from within the Loaded Customization Groups. Then click Unload.
The Loaded Customization Groups list will now be empty.
Type ACAD in the File Name field. Then click Load.
Your AutoCAD menus will reload. You may be able to see your ribbons at this point.
Still don't see the ribbons? Move on to the next step.
Step 3: Unload and reload your Land F/X menus.
Follow our steps to load your Land F/X menus.
You should now see your ribbons.
Still don't see your ribbons? Follow our manual workstation installation steps.
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Cause
Two possible scenarios can render the ribbons and pull-down menus invisible:
- You have the ribbons and menus turned off, or
- Your AutoCAD and/or Land F/X menus are unloaded.
Solution
1. First, try turning on your ribbons and menubar.
2. To turn the ribbons on, type RIBBON in the Command line and press Enter.=
3. To turn the menubar on, type MENUBAR in the Command line and press Enter. When prompted to enter a value, type 1. Then press Enter.
If the issue was simply that your ribbons and menus were turned off, you should see them now.
Still don't see your ribbons and/or menus? Move on to the next step.
4. Follow our steps to load the Land F/X menus.
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Cause
The file acad.cuix may be damaged or configured improperly.
Solution
Type CUI in the Command line and press Enter.
The Customized User Interface (CUI) will open. You now have a couple of options, depending on whether you've customized your ACAD.CUIX file.
Option 1: If you HAVE NOT made a large number of customizations to your ACAD.CUIX file:
You can resolve this issue by resetting the file ACAD.CUIX manually:
Right-click the ACAD entry in the left pane. Then select Reset ACAD.CUIX from the menu that opens.
This step will reset the file ACAD.CUIXto its default state, making your ACAD ribbo visible.
Option 2: If you HAVE made a large number of customizations to your ACAD.CUIX file:
You can use the CUI to turn your ribbons back on manually without resetting ACAD.CUIX to a default state.
Select your workspace in the left pane of the Customized User Interface (Drafting & Annotation Default shown as an example).
Then click Customize Workspace in the right pane.
The items in the right pane will turn blue and become expandable, as pictured to the right.
Expand the Ribbon Tabs group by clicking the plus (+) sign.
For each tab you want to enable, select that tab, then select Yes in the Show menu.
The example to the left shows the process of enabling the Output tab to make it visible in the ribbon.
Once you've enabled all the tabs you want to see, click Apply to apply your changes, then click OK to close the Customized User Interface.
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