

Hopefully this post will be of help to someone else. I don't think you will read this in any of the help files. Enter TOOLBAR into the command line and select ALL, and then SHOW. I would say there is a glitch in the software. Modify Properties Standard Styles If you have AutoCAD Mechanical or wish to enable all of the toolbars use the following method. Then I closed it and immediately all of the toolbars on the screen appeared correctly, including the few custom icons I had made. Even though it was a canned icon, I named it Lines. I clicked on the first icon in that toolbar (which was the standard Line command) and clicked on edit, then save. I opened that flyout independently as a toolbar on the screen and it was also blank (icons were in preview pane but not on screen). I had named the first flyout "Lines-flyout". I had added some flyouts to the Draw toolbar and as a result the entire Draw tool bar on the screen was blank. As hokey as this is going to sound this is what I did to solve the problem. Recover all missing AutoCAD menus and toolbars How to reset your Autocad and Civil 3D Techie BUD 1.6K subscribers Subscribe 86 7.4K views 2 years ago ResettingAutocad. I read yesterday about someone finding a problem with one icon and when they resolved that problem all of their other problems cleared up. Any tool bar that I modified has this problem.

I added "shrink wrapped" icons from the selection menu (they came with the program) to some of the toolbars and/or moved more commonly used commands to the top of the toolbar.
