Expert: Bob - 12/28/2008

Question
Somehow, i have managed to turn on the express tools in ACAD2000. I can't find a command or a menu selection to turn it back off and restart the standard tool bars. Perusal of the internet has been a waste of time thus far.

Can you save me from myself?

thanx in advance,

-scot

Answer
Hi

HERE IS WHERE TO LOOK FOR EXPRESS TOOLS -- OTHER GROUPS ARE GREAT TOO

http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=36
(remember, your software is about to have its 10th birthday, so the posts on releases after, say 2004, wont necessarily apply.

You left out how you got there --- you must have tried to install Express Tools, and along the way missed the checkbox for which menus Acad should display, checking only EXPRESS.

These are my problems in answering you:

1--Somehow, i have managed to turn on the express tools in ACAD2000

You loaded (correct term) the Express Menu and killed the other menus, apparently --- this is the kind of error, which when we make, we need to go right back and fix while it is fresh in our minds.

2--I can't find a command or a menu selection to turn it back off and restart the standard tool bars.

HELP should tell you how to load menus (I dont have that old release here to check on it, but it is there)---

If your question indicated that you had tried the normal commands, such as MENU and MENULOAD, to no avail, I would tell you to re-install.

If you are trying to teach yourself AutoCAD without a good book, and without learning how to use HELP, just poking and trying, your life will be a constant nightmare.

If you had known enough to put ___ autocad menus___ into Google, you would have seen many articles on the subject, of which only the old ones are relevant to you.

=== THUS, SINCE YOU LEFT OUT YOUR BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE (which makes my job much harder, by triple)
ALL I CAN DO IS GUESS WHY YOU ARE WHERE YOU ARE
=== And my guess is that you are attempting self-learning without structure. The menus thing is in HELP and all books.

I cant type large enough to tell you to please get a good book and follow the lessons. Also, if you are trying to use AutoCAD for work, I would suggest stopping now, buying AutoCAD 2009 (or LT, at less money, and most of the capability) and a book. The nine years contain a lot of progress, and why go through the ordeal of learning the old one, only to be out of date. (if you have an employer who sticks you with 2000, you didnt say so -- 2000 is OK, but not nearly so quick, if one learns the new stuff)

I try to point out where to look up your own answer, hoping to teach you how not to get stuck. So-- go look in HELP for menu, menuload,etc -- and you should be fine in 10 minutes.  Write back if I have mistaken you.

BOB