How to install Express Tools

[marine_designer]

I installed 2006 as part of Mechanical Desktop, and I don't remember getting a prompt to install express tools. How do I install them now? Thanks in advance.

Victor Lavergne
Delta Marine Industries
www.deltamarine.com

[Wanderer]

I installed 2006 as part of Mechanical Desktop, and I don't remember getting a prompt to install express tools. How do I install them now? Thanks in advance.

Victor Lavergne
Delta Marine Industries
www.deltamarine.com

I don't know if that is the same as vanilla... but, even with MAP I got a checkbox asking if I wanted to install express tools and... erm... I dunno 3d dwf support or something... but, by default it was checked and was part of the initial install...

I'd pull up the cd in explorer and look for an exe with express in the title, I think that still works with this one... anyone more knowledgable about?

[jaberwok]

I installed 2006 as part of Mechanical Desktop, and I don't remember getting a prompt to install express tools. How do I install them now? Thanks in advance.

Victor Lavergne
Delta Marine Industries
www.deltamarine.com

ETools should be installed by default but they don't always show of their own accord. Typing Expressmenu should fix it.

[marine_designer]

I tried your suggestions. Expresstools is definitely not loaded, I've typed in expresstools, expressmenu, express, flatten (the tool I really need), and I can't find an .exe file on the installation disk that loads it. Any more ideas? Thanks

Victor

[Wanderer]

I tried your suggestions. Expresstools is definitely not loaded, I've typed in expresstools, expressmenu, express, flatten (the tool I really need), and I can't find an .exe file on the installation disk that loads it. Any more ideas? Thanks

Victor

with my first install of map (long story there) I had to do menuload > acetmain.cui and then I could see the express menu

[marine_designer]

Melanie, that's getting me closer, I have the express toolbars now, but the icons are all question marks!

Victor

[Wanderer]

Melanie, that's getting me closer, I have the express toolbars now, but the icons are all question marks!

Victor

I know I read something about this in the adesk discussion groups... I don't know where it was exactly...

perhaps try the suggestion in express tools 2006 unknown command...

HTH

[mtropper]

Under tools/option/files make sure express tools is loaded in support file search path

[Robert.Hall]

Way to go Autodesk............give us the express tools but do not have them autoload.
So is getting half the way there the same as all the way there?

[jonathan.landeros]

I had this happen to me once. Browse down into your CD and look for a menu with Express in it (I can't remember the exact name). Run the setup in there, and it should install.