READ THE WHOLE THING!! after all.... i took the time to type it...the least you can do is read it! it's worth the time, and SHOULD solve your problem with the AUTO option in the DIMSPACE command in AutoCAD. After extensive searching, and countless hours of trial and error.....lots and lots of error....this is
the FULLY FUNCTIONING lisp routine that I came up with in order to get the DIMSPACE command to be default to 0 and not ask you for a set distance. Which is what I wanted for my personal use. I have absolutely NO idea how it works, or why, i cannot explain lisp to you, all i know is that this little gem is a huge time saver for me. feel free to modify the "CX" to what ever suits you. i used that simply because i was running out of options to try. i then went into my customization file and edited my .pgp file where you set your shortcut keys and set the keystrokes to "AD" so the .pgp entry looks like this:
AD, *CX
of course, you can set it to whatever you want. i wish i could be of more help as to explaining the HOW it works, but all i know is that it works for me in AutoCAD 2017. I hope it works for you as well as it does for me. to put this into AutoCAD (at least the way i did it, i know there are other ways)
- open CAD (duh)
- open a blank dwg or dwt file
- go to the TOOLS menu button (i don't use the ribbon, i HATE the f$#@%g ribbon) so you'll have to find the appropriate tab, button, or whatever, i think it's under the MANAGE tab, and open the Visual LISP Editor.
- copy the text below the dotted line into your LISP editor and SAVEAS (whatever you want as long as it's under the LISP SOURCE FILES file type)it into a place you won't forget.
- Type CUI into your command line and on the left side under the ALL CUSTOMIZATION FILES scroll down until you see the fly-out for LISP FILES right click on that and click on the LOAD LISP and then go to your file where you saved this lisp, pick it and click open.
- hit APPLY , then OK. and wham bam thank ya ma'am!!! you're new time saving lisp code will run everytime you open an AutoCAD file!!
As i said before, I'm sure that there are other more effective ways of doing this process, but this is what i've come across and it was written for people by people (me) that don't know $h1T about lisp programming. All i can say is that i personally haven't had any problems with it. and....YES!! you can still use the default DIMSPACE command and input a distance that you want or if you choose to go with the AUTO option it will space the dimensions to 2X the text height by default. OH! and one more little tid bit of happy fun times...YES!! you can use window selection to pick your dims that you want to move down to the BASE DIMENSION.... a problem that some other lisp codes i tried would not let you do. i'd like to be all cocky and act like i knew what i was doing...but that just isn't the case. if you copy the lisp BELOW THE LINE (if i have to tell you not to copy the line....) (>_<) then maybe you shouldn't be doing this at all....just sayin.... 😉
anyway...that all being said...feel free to copy, share, modify as you see fit. If you figure out a way to make it work better... awesome...I'd love to hear it. but i don't need any snotty emails about my crappy programming skills... I ALREADY KNOW! 🙂
this post was not written in response to just any one post, it's just the culmination of several hours and days of scouring the interweb for an answer to this issue. and i wanted it out there in case i need it again. I would actually rather see AutoDesk just implement a command like the AMDIMALIGN command that is in AutoCAD Mechanical, into ALL of the AutoCAD variations and alleviate this situation altogether... ...hint...hint...
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(DEFUN C:CX ()
(Command "dimspace" pause (setq ss1 (ssget)) ss1"" "0.0"))
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