Missing ShareNow icons for AutoCAD 2009? Perhaps you migrated...

If you migrated your AutoCAD 2008 CUI settings when you installed AutoCAD 2009, you need to manually add the ShareNow icons to an existing toolbar. ShareNow and ShareDSD are available from the command line independent from this action.

I was testing ShareNow with AutoCAD 2009. I installed the add-in but had no ShareNow icons. My AutoCAD 2009 looked like:

This was puzzling to our ShareNow developers who got results that looked like:

Upon further investigation it turned out that I had migrated my 2008 CUI settings from AutoCAD 2008 to 2009 when I installed AutoCAD 2009. Hence a subsequent install of the ShareNow add-in did not result in the icons being added to the Quick Properties toolbar. If this happens to you, please use the AutoCAD CUI user interface to add the ShareNow and ShareDSD icons to a toolbar of your choosing.

I chose:

Now I can share my designs with others right from AutoCAD by clicking an icon. The others do not need AutoCAD or additional plug-ins - just their browsers. For more information see:

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/ShareNow/

Scratching our heads but finding the answers is alive in the lab.