Status bar disappearing

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

I just had my one my of contract customers call me and his status bar had disappeared. He is running X5. Has anyone ever seen this or know how to fix it?

 

TIA.

[3rdstring]

My link

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

Thanks. Search first, ask questions later.

[jerms]

Okay guys, I have tried everything I read on the forum. I no longer have a status bar period, maximized or minimized. Getting aggravated.

[Jeremy Herron@DBS Solutions™]

I had one customer have a similar issue, If the link above did not work, try right clicking in top where your toolbars and turn all of them on and see if it comes back, then turn the ones you do no want off. Sounds crazy, but I have seen it work.

 

 

[K2csq7]

Is your windows taskbar set to "auto-hide"? If so, lock it.

[jerms]

Thanks for the reply. I have turned on all, reset all, loaded all tool bars and toolbar files. I had the same exact problem with X5, and recently upgraded to X6, and all was fine until I "updated the folder" I should have thought twice.... No it's not the task bar. It's extremely frustrating trying to design a part and not being able to create view/cplanes or rotate them. or at least I don't know another way to do it...

[K2csq7]

For a temporary fix you could keymap some of the functions, or add them to a custom toolbar, or your right click menu.

[chrisdavala]

I had this happen in X5 awhile back and here is what fixed it as per Jason @ barefoot cnc. Go into registry editor(regedit), hkey current user, software, cnc software. Make sure mastercam is closed first. Right click on mastercam x5 then rename it (I renamed it mastercam x5-1). Then when you reopen mastercam it thinks its the first time you've run it because of the new registry name. Worked perfectly.

[The Chipmaker]

Remember when you could just click on the mastercam open icon and just start programming? Ahhh the good old days......

[jerms]

I finally called tech support (imagine that) It was a registry issue carried over from X5. When I used the "Migration Utility" The tech guy suggested that we (consumers) not use that method. Not sure why they don't tell us ahead of time! Any way I had to go into the registry files in current user and delete the X6 folder, A word of advise if you do this, you will lose all customized settings. I copied selected files such as key maps, toolbars etc. to a folder on my desk top. "HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/CNC Software, Inc./Mastercam X6"