When opening parts or drawings, my CommandManager works just fine, but when I open an assembly, it looks like this:
That is, all the other tabs are gone, and nearly all the commands are gone from what remains. I've never seen this before, and suspect registry corruption or similar. It worked fine just yesterday. I searched forum for similar, and others had entire ribbon hidden, not emptied like this. Ref. Spec: SW Premium 2016 SP3.0 on Win7 Pro.
I plan to restore UI with Settings Wizard, which I hope will work, but wanted to know:
What may have caused this (maybe it's avoidable)?
Will this likely happen again?
Could this be due to something outside of SW, such as Windows Update maybe?
Is Settings Wizard the best solution, or would I need to shoot my productivity in the foot today with a reinstall?
Thanks folks.
Thanks Loretta and Joel for helping out.
Before I got your callback, I tried restoring the System State prior to updating KB3177467. After reboot, it worked. All my CommandManager items were returned as before.
At that point, I called back and reported what worked. Since this update was marked Critical by windows, I didn't want to just ignore it. So I went ahead and ran the same update again. It did not require a reboot, but I did so anyway. This time, the CommandManager worked as intended both before and after the update.
VAR suggested clearing out Solidworks from the registry, and allowing it to rewrite its registry entities upon reload as the default initial settings. Then, I was going to restore settings with the wizard. However, somehow it seems to have healed itself now, and isn't consistent.
It makes little sense, but I'm happy enough that it works now.