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remove solidworks menu's

remove solidworks menu's

remove solidworks menu's

(OP)
Solidworks has placed some stupid menu's in my autocad.
How can I manipulate the Autocad startup (.ini?) to not
place these menus.  I have tried removing the menu's via the "customize" method, but when I select "pdmwautocadaddin" menu group autocad will not let me delete (greyed out delete button).

sorry for the probable repeat...search is down.
dsgnr1
acadm6

RE: remove solidworks menu's

I found the only way to rid yourself of this annoyance is to kill the problem at its root.  I searched my AutoCAD directories to find where any files with EDW (edrawings), PDM, or SWfileconv in the name existed.  I then moved all those files to a far away place.  In my case, I know I will never use these utilities inside of AutoCAD so I am safe to do this.

Once those source files are moved, then you can remove the menus, etc. from the startup list and the tools/customize menus list.

Just make sure that if you plan on using these utilities in the future that you store the files in a place other than the recycle bin.

Regards,

JEM

Solidworks 2007 SP3.0
2GB Ram/3GB Switch
Quadro FX1300
P4 3.40GHz Duo XP Pro SP2.0

RE: remove solidworks menu's

(OP)
thanks Jobie.
I will try this soon.
also use mostly solidworks and had a fix for this once but don't remember how I did it.

dsgnr1

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Version of SolidWorks: 2006
SolidWorks Sercive Pack:sp4.1
Operating System & Service Pack: win2k v5 (sp4)
Graphics Card and Driver version: Nvidia Quadro fx540, 7.1.8.4
Amount of installed RAM: 1GB
Virtual Memory settings: APPS, total paging = 1024mb
CPU Type & Speed: intel pent 4 / cpu 3.00GHz


RE: remove solidworks menu's

One thing that sucks about my method is that everytime you install a new Swx service pack, it will re-embed all of those menus into autocad.

I would love to know of a method that would solve this permanantly.  Too bad Swx doesn't ask you whether or not you want those options installed.  That's my biggest beef with Swx: it too often assumes it knows what you want to do.

Solidworks 2007 SP3.0
2GB Ram/3GB Switch
Quadro FX1300
P4 3.40GHz Duo XP Pro SP2.0

RE: remove solidworks menu's

It doesn't hurt to leave it there.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)

RE: remove solidworks menu's

(OP)
Thanks Jobie and Ctopher for your input.  I chose to remove for now.  For future reference, is there any way I can order (have IT guy order) the installs so that the "EDW", "pdm", "swf" menu's don't show up?

I just prefer to keep apps as simple as possible...is that so wwrroooonnnnggg? =)
(must be my Solidworks background shining through)

Thanks again!
dsgnr1

¿)
Version of SolidWorks: 2006
SolidWorks Sercive Pack:sp4.1
Operating System & Service Pack: win2k v5 (sp4)
Graphics Card and Driver version: Nvidia Quadro fx540, 7.1.8.4
Amount of installed RAM: 1GB
Virtual Memory settings: APPS, total paging = 1024mb
CPU Type & Speed: intel pent 4 / cpu 3.00GHz


RE: remove solidworks menu's

I think the solution is simpler than everyone is making it out to be.  I had a problem with WaterCAD changing all of the menus.  When I started WaterCAD the first time all of the menus changed.  After that every time I opened just AutoCAD I still had all of the WaterCAD menus.

I re-loaded AutoCAD to get rid of the problem and vowed never to start WaterCAD for AutoCAD again, just use the stand-alone program.  Oops, I started the wrong program.

I finally found that ToolsMenu:Options and the last tab Profiles shows profiles that are created by other programs for a whole slew of settings.  The <<Unnamed Profile>> is the default AutoCAD profile.  I Set it back to Current and all of the other problems and I had my AutoCAD menus and toolbars back the way I originally set them.

Hope it works.

Mark Schroder
Design Engineer
McKean & Associates Engineers

RE: remove solidworks menu's

ctopher,

Do you mean it doesn't hurt to leave the menus loaded  whether you use them or not?

Solidworks 2007 SP3.0
2GB Ram/3GB Switch
Quadro FX1300
P4 3.40GHz Duo XP Pro SP2.0

RE: remove solidworks menu's

As long as the installation hasn't changed any of the original autocad commands that are accessed by the original menus I don't see a problem with it.  After the solidworks installation did it set up another profile?  The only way around that I can think of if it just modified the default profile is to duplicate (with a different name) the default profile and then load solidworks.  The menus are just a list of commands and if they reside in a profile that you are not using they shouldn't interfere.

Mark

RE: remove solidworks menu's

Correct. It doesn't hurt anything.
Plus, if you use both ACAD and SolidWorks, remove the menus you don't like, there is a chance that with the next upgrade of SolidWorks the menus will be installed again.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)

RE: remove solidworks menu's

I am sure I am just nitpicking, but everytime I open AutoCAD, I have to sit and watch a splash screen for PDMworks, then a splash screen for edrawings, then a splash screen for Adobe.  Now I am more than a minute into my AutoCAD session and I haven't accomplished anything.  Then, there are 3 more pull down menus and 3 more toolbars cluttering up my display.  Some days I have a hard enough time clicking the right icon without all that other stuff in my way.

And since I never have and never will use any of these utilities within AutoCAD it does cause more harm than good.

I guess I just find it fundamentally wrong that as you install Swx it doesn't even give you a choice.  It embeds itself into other apps whether you want it to or not.

And yes, it does do this for each and every service pack upgrade.

In the future I will try to remember the method of changing profiles as mentioned by marks625.  It definitely sounds promising.

Solidworks 2007 SP3.0
2GB Ram/3GB Switch
Quadro FX1300
P4 3.40GHz Duo XP Pro SP2.0

RE: remove solidworks menu's

(OP)
I am like you Jobiewan99.
I like a very simple screen to look at.  In fact I use primarily (99%) typed shortcuts commands in autocad. (i.e. mo for properties, st for style, op for autocad options etc.)  I have a very simple menu bar.  I use nothing but the properties menu and a couple custom buttons. (one is a super purge...three purges and a save, the other is a combined zoom with a zoom .9x).  It su__s that I will have to move the edw files on each install.  Oh well.

dsgnr1

¿)
Version of SolidWorks: 2006
SolidWorks Sercive Pack:sp4.1
Operating System & Service Pack: win2k v5 (sp4)
Graphics Card and Driver version: Nvidia Quadro fx540, 7.1.8.4
Amount of installed RAM: 1GB
Virtual Memory settings: APPS, total paging = 1024mb
CPU Type & Speed: intel pent 4 / cpu 3.00GHz


RE: remove solidworks menu's

I agree that you should have a choice to install them.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)

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