Very frustrated X6 user, lost ribbon bar and...

[Dontech]

...and my toolpath contour pane (or whatever it's called) on the left side of the screen. All I have is my buttons toolbar up top and the MRU bar to the right of the screen. The rest is just a huge, empty graphics window now.  Not sure how I lost either of those things but it SHOULD NOT be that easy to do, whereby an accidental mouse move screws up your whole interface and stops you dead in your tracks.

I've searched in the Mastercam help menu and online, but not sure where to begin recovering those lost items. All I do know is that the Control Panel applet doesn't help, and I think that having to go into the registry and/or the config file to delete your personal configuration are both problematic, lazy methods for what should be a simple fix. If it's that easy to inadvertently screw up your interface, it ought to be just as easy to restore it without having to reset everything you've spent valuable time customizing to fit your needs. Sorry for the tone, I'm just really annoyed that this is even able to happen at all with this $$$$ software. It should be preventable. I've lost all kinds of production time trying to figure out how to restore what I lost.

Anyone have any simple ideas like which menu to open and/or what checkbox to...umm, check or uncheck so I don't have to mess with the registry or lose my personal config?

 

Thank you for your time.

[Dontech]

Okay, I've figured out how to restore the Toolpath Manager but not the ribbon bar. Any help with that?

[Leon82]

In the control panel there should be a mastercam icon , can't remember what it's called.

 

Go in there and there should be about 5 things and one is to reset the ribbon bar. You will need to restart mastercam

 

I have done this before but not in x6

 

ETA, this may have been for the bottom bar that shifted off the screen

[Richard Thomas - Mastercam UK]

Try starting Create/Line/Endpoints (or draw an arc or rectangle....)  Unless there is a bigger issue, the Ribbon Bar should come back floating somewhere on your screen and you should be able to drag it back into it's proper place.

[Dontech]

Sorry for the delayed response. Thank you all for the help, I was able to fix it. You guys rock.