Full Archie menus in MEP?

[pauljordan]

I know you can put the basic Archie menu in your MEP, has anyone been able to put the sub menus that come with Autocad Architecture in their Architecture Workspace on MEP?? I'm ainly looking at putting the design menus under it. The other will fall in line once I figure out that one.

I'm pretty sure there's a way to do it in the CUI manager but, I'm drawing a blank and losing my hair.

Any help?

[Ed Jobe]

It comes out of the box that way. Open the shortcut that ends with "(US Imperial - Architecture)". This opens the profile "AutoCAD Architecture (US Imperial)".

[pauljordan]

OK, let me add a little to this. I can add the Archie pulldowns like into the workspace area while in the customizer for the CUI, click apply, ok, and everything but, it doesn't modify the toolbar.

What I'd ultimately like to see is the 4 Archie workspaces available on my MEP program. There comes a time when a client uses both and wants the full abilities of the Archie part, then switches over to full use of the MEP part. They're both in the box, they should both work completely.

Right??

~ Wonders why the crickets are chirping.. ~

[pauljordan]

It comes out of the box that way. Open the shortcut that ends with "(US Imperial - Architecture)". This opens the profile "AutoCAD Architecture (US Imperial)".

I know that part Ed, just the Archie workspace that comes with MEP is only the basic menu with walls, doors, windows all on the same palette. The one with Architecture has Design, Documentation, etc as it's menus.

I guess what I'm sayin is the one for the Architecture has types of doors on one palette, types of walls on another palette (tab I guess it is), windows, etc..

[Ed Jobe]

I know that part Ed, just the Archie workspace that comes with MEP is only the basic menu with walls, doors, windows all on the same palette. The one with Architecture has Design, Documentation, etc as it's menus.

True, mep.cui does include an arch workspace. But, the other profile loads adt.cui, the whole enchilada. IOW, don't just change workspaces, change profiles.

[pauljordan]

But, but, but... OK.. Fine...

[Ed Jobe]

But, but, but... OK.. Fine...

That doesn't solve the problem?

[Steve_Bennett]

There are a couple ways to go about this. Really, both profiles and workspaces will need to be used for things to work correctly/efficiently. Otherwise you will have to load all menus into the profile to run ACA/AMEP, and setup workspaces to control all menus/toolbars in the workspaces. This becomes a performance issue when you load a bunch of menus that aren't needed. I have detailed some of that on my blog as well.

Start with this post and work through them to get a larger understanding of some of the issues at hand with multiple CUI files. http://2d-or-not-2d.blogspot.com/200...-that-all.html