Installing Menus in AutoCAD 2015-2025

AutoCAD makes use of a new and "complicated" ribbon based menu system in its 2015 version and after. The underlying code behind controlling and updating the menus has changed and Artwork's installer is unable to automatically update the menu in version 2015. Fortunately this can be done by the user with a few simple steps (assuming you know exactly what to do). This page documents the steps to install menus for our family of packaging tools that run inside of AutoCAD.


Starting Point

Our starting point is a "clean" AutoCAD as shown below:

type menuload at the command line.

On the command line type: menuload [enter]

When running the MENULOAD command in AutoCAD 2015 or after, you will need to select and load the file AC_WIREBOND.MNS as oppose to the AC_WIREBOND.CUIX file.
AC_WIREBOND.MNS is located in the wirebond folder, for example c:\ACS Package Tools 2020\Wirebond


MENUBAR command

If it still fails to show the Wirebond software in the menu, run the command MENUBAR and set it to 1.