I'm having a problem with Command Manager today. My evaluate tab, which I use mainly for the measure tool, appears to have gone walkabout. It's there for assemblies and drawings but missing in my parts files. Weldments was also missing but I added that back in with Customize Command Manager.. option, however evaluate wasn't there to choose.
Can anyone help?
I don't have SW2016 but I'd suggest putting the measure tool in your "S" key. It should still be in the Tools toolbar or you can drag it to the heads up toolbar.
Steve C
This actually helped me find that there is a tools toolbar which seems to have replaced the evaluate tab. Everything I was missing is in the tools tab now.
Thanks.
As you can see from this image my .sldprt files have the tools tab and my .sldasm files have the old evaluate tab. Don't know why this happened but it's fixed I guess.
As I said before, I don't have SW2016 so I don't know for certain what's missing. Do what Deepak is suggesting to see you can get it back because it does sound if though it should be there.
I tend to use the "S" more and rely less on the toolbars.
Steve C
Restart system & check
might be loading problem
or
go to Customize Command Manager ---> click on Reset to defaults
Mark, can you try the steps in the attached video to see if that get your tab back.
Hi Deepak,
As you can see from the picture Evaluate has completely disappeared from my part files.
When you clicked on Customize CommandManager, did you see many tabs like in my video?
If not then do a registry set and that should being stuff back. Make sure you take a backup of the current settings using Copy Settings Wizard.
I wonder if you you go to Customize - Customization then clicked on "Show All", if you would then have "Evaluate" available to add to your Command Manager..
Nada.
I don't even know what pressing those buttons do as nothing seemed to change when I did 0_o.
Hmmm,,, I was thinking that when you did that then right clicked on your command manager you would get something like this.
When I click on "Customize CommandManager" I get the same thing as your screenshot depicts. No Evaluate there but I do have it available from the drop down.
I have it available in drawings and assemblies but it's completely vanished in part files.
Try right clicking on the command manager and see if it's there to select.
Steve C
Hi,
I had simmilar problem with disappearing tabs when I worked on assembly and found a fix for it. In your case it would look like this:
1) open assembly
2) customize CommandManager
3) right click evaluate tab and copy it to Part
It worked for me. I hope it will work for you as well.
Regards,
Piotr
This worked Piotr. Thank you very much.
Great! I'm glad I was able to help
Rather than copying from Assembly to Part, I had luck with deleting these two registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 2016\User Interface\CommandManager
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 2016\User Interface\Custom API Toolbars
This seems to bring any Command Manager customizations back to default, without affecting anything else. And for me, it brought back the Evaluate tab I was missing.
The downside of copying the tab from one context to another (from Assembly to Part, or vice versa) is that it may be missing some buttons specific to that context (e.g., Part doesn't have "Interference Detection" like Assembly does).
This works perfectly!
Hi,
I had simmilar problem with disappearing tabs when I worked on assembly and found a fix for it. In your case it would look like this:
1) open assembly
2) customize CommandManager
3) right click evaluate tab and copy it to Part
It worked for me. I hope it will work for you as well.
Regards,
Piotr