Can’t edit workspaces via CUI editor

In AutoCAD 2008, when you try to add or remove toolbars, menus, palettes or panels to your workspace from within the CUI editor, it appears to save the changes when you exit the editor. When you’re back in the drawing window, however, none of your workspace edits are actually saved.

Workarounds:
This appears to be directly tied to turning on “Automatically save changes to workspace.” If “automatically save changes” is turned on, then the CUI editor does not work. If it is turned off, then editing in the CUI editor does work.  To check this setting, you must first exit the CUI editor and then run the WSSETTINGS command.

First Appeared: AutoCAD 2008
Status as of 2009: Appears to have been fixed.  Tough luck for all of the 2008 users who aren’t on subscription.

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