touchup toolbar

[donjacobsen]

The touch up toolbar is kind of an odd creature - you can only invoke the toolbar when you run the AECItouchup command.

So here's my problem . . .

I am running RD 2008 and I had dual monitors for a while. I am back to a single monitor and now my touchup toolbar is not visible. It must be way off screen because it thinks I still have two monitors.

Since you can't use the toolbar command to invoke the touchup toolbar, there really isn't anyway of finding it. I have tried minimizing my screen, clean screen, showing ALL toolbars, but nothing has brought it back.

Maybe there's a registry setting ???

Any ideas on how to get my touchup toolbar back would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Don

[david.zavislan]

You can change the coordinates of the toolbar in the registry. Backup the registry first by exporting the folder you are going to modify.

I don't have 2008, but here is the key locatoin for 2010.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R18.0\ACAD-8000:409\Applications\AeciTouchup\Options

Replace R18.0 with the number for 2008. Should be R17.1

Replace the ACAD-8000:409 with the version of AutoCAD you have installed. The 8000:409 is for Civil 3D 2010.

Keys you want to modify are HorzPos and VertPos. Change the number to pixel coordinates that will appear on your monitor. The default for other toolbars appears to be around 200 and 200.

[donjacobsen]

Ahh - that did the trick!

Thank you very much!