saving/loading just a custom toolbar (without the whole UI)

[Rich O]

Is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to load ALL toolbars from my old version, only my single custom one.

 

After spending half an hour making sure all my scripts are there (after copy-pasting of the scripts and usermacros folders in C:\Users\Richard\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\201 5 - 64bit\ENU\ to the 2017 equivalent), getting the damn toolbar is proving the hardest part of migrating to Max 2017!

 

The main issue is that saving a .ciux file from Customise User Interface>Toolbars in 2015 and loading it in 2017 also replaces all the default Max icons with the old ones, which I don't want. I just want my one custom toolbar.

I *could* just re-create it from scratch but it'd be convenient if there is a way to import it.

 

Any ideas?

[Josef Wienerroither]

You CAN edit the .cuix file manually, at the end it's only a xml file. It might become very cumbersome fast if you have many custom toolbars, and ever more when you add your custom buttons to standard toolbars. But other than that you simply can copy paste the corresponding XML nodes ( each entry starts with " node. Be sure to copy/paste the complete set inside and including the opening "". A good code/text editor ( like Notepad++ ) which allows to fold those sections comes in handy here.

 

I always would create my own toolbar for customizations or prepare to have to pull buttons onto them manually with each new Max version. NEVER EVER load a cuix file from a previous Max version into a new version. As you already wrote you loose a lot and even make Max usntable/not launching.