Hi I got this error yesterday that makes me not load the graphite tools in 3dsmax , does anyone know hot to fix it? I have looked around the web and the solutions I found didn't help ... XAML Parse error saying "error parsing xaml file: root element missing". I clicked ok, and it said that "The main Ribbon configuration…
You need to delete the file that's corrupted and when you start Max again, it'll create a new one. C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2011 - 64bit\enu\UI\MaxManaged.xaml (Or there may be a MaxManaged.xaml.backup file there that you can rename.) I think this is fixed in SP1 or SP2, by the way.