Anyone have trouble with the R menu being inacessible?

[patricks]

This has been a problem for several years now. Seems to happen most often after sending a print job, either to Adobe PDF or a physical printer/plotter.

I click on the "R" application menu, and nothing happens. I click down below where the menu should be, and it will flash for a split second and that's it. That means I can't do anything from that menu like print, export, start a new family, close the file, or anything (except things that have a shortcut like Ctrl-P for print). This happened just awhile ago when I was trying to close the file after synchronizing. I could not just close the file, so I had to instead close all the view windows I had open in the project.

Another thing that comes along with the R menu issue is that any function that makes a dialog box come up, such as Printing or bringing up Type Properties of an object, will appear as though nothing happens. Then if you click somewhere in your drawing window you get one of the Windows "alarm" sounds, and the dialog box suddenly pops up with the title bar flashing like crazy, as if to say "NO YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE CLICKED OUTSIDE THIS BOX!" But, I had to click outside the box to make the box appear!

The only remedy for both of these is to close down Revit completely and start it up again. Anyone else ever run into this?

[jsteinhauer]

Patricks,

My guess is Revit is still processing for some time after the original command has been completed. This is similar to when I close out of Revit at the end of the day, then go to shut down my workstation. If I don't close Revit first before, closing my email, Excel, Time Keep, Instant Messenger, Windows Media Player, Windows Explorer, FireFox... Windows will tell me that Revit is still running in the background, even though i closed it like 2 minutes ago, and that I could be putting unsaved data at risk. So, check your task manager to see how much memory your computer is currently using, and then see if a majority of it is being sucked up by Revit. That will tell you that Revit is still doing something, even though the User might not see anything happening. As a matter of good practice, S2C before printing anything.

Cheers,
Jeff S.

[irneb]

I wonder if this is something similar to the ribbon "loosing" some of its tabs. That's usually fixable through minimizing, restoring & maximizing Revit, it might help for the R menu, but I don't know about the dialogues. It's a bug in DotNet, though I think some of the updates from Microsoft fixed this - not sure which though.