Undocked main shelf?


#1

Help!

Somehow I got my main shelf undocked from the top menu bar. I can open it up, but it’s just a separate floating window. In View>Toolbars “Main Shelf” has a little u in front of it. I guess that indicates it’s been undocked or something has changed.
How can I get it docked to the top again? Sliding it around and hoping for it to snap into place isn’t working.
Thanks. :slight_smile:


#2

Open it using View > Optional Panels, not View > Toolbars.


#3

Thank you. :slight_smile:


#4

You can make your own little custom layouts and plugins and scripts and such and have them appear in menus. The u means it’s a user installed thing. A w would mean it’s a workgroup installed thing. No letter means it’s an application default.


#5

Thank you for that, tuna. :slight_smile:

I figured out what the problem was though. I’m using the 2010 demo, which I installed just today. I guess I should have mentioned that. :wink:

But I had checked out one of the Face Robot examples and that automatically switched me to the Face Robot interface, which loaded back up even in a new scene after being closed back down.
I figured out how to close the Face Robot panel and get back my MCP and the left side panels, but trying to open the main shelf just opened it in a floating window.
Finally I figured out I needed to enable the Softimage Interface from the Face Robot tab at the top, to get it all back to normal.
Then each time I opened it back up it opened with the Face Robot interface until I figured out that I had to physically disable that.
Very confusing.

What can I say - I’m a n00b. :wink:


#6

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