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DivideMeasurePlus.lsp has been upgraded! For those who haven't seen it before, it contains "turbo-charged" versions of Divide and Measure, with significant enhancements over the ordinary AutoCAD commands [see descriptions in the top of the file]. Improvements in the attached, compared to the "previous release," include:
1. By request from DARIOGOMEZPEREZ on this forum, the DIV+ command now has the option to inset the endmost Points or Blocks or Selection-set insertions by a User-specified distance from the ends of the selected path object. It applies the Dividing operation to the remaining length between those inset locations.
2. I figured one might want to use the same Block or Selection set in both commands. In either of them, if you've named a Block in that command, that has always been offered as the default, and it now also offers the prior Selection set in the Selection option, if there is one. But now, if you haven't yet chosen a Block or Selection in the command you're using, but you have done so in the other command, that other command's Block or Selection is offered as the default.
3. In the Blocks option, if you haven't named a Block for either command yet, but ordinary Insert has a default Block name, that is offered.
4. In the Blocks option, both commands formerly exited if you entered a Block name that was neither defined in the current drawing nor a Drawing in the Support File Search path(s). Now they don't give up on you, but ask you again.
5. In the Selection option, in either command, you can choose to use the prior Selection used in the command you're in, or the set used most recently in the other command, without needing to re-select anything. [Choices are offered only for such Selections as have been established.]
...and a few other minor tweakings and streamlinings and avoidances of oddball problem situations.
Kent Cooper, AIA 
@dariogomezperez wrote:Thanks so much Kent!!
You're welcome.
Something occurred to me since that I want to ask about. It wasn't quite clear to me, looking again at your initial question on the other thread, whether what you want is what I did -- inset the end ones and Divide the remaining length between those. I thought perhaps you might have wanted something else -- Divide the overall length first, leave the typical ones spaced relative to the overall length, and inset the endmost ones from the ends [which would leave them closer to the next ones in than the typical ones are from each other].
If it was really the "something else" that you wanted, I expected you would write back and say it doesn't do what you need, so maybe I shouldn't wonder. Anyway, I suppose the routine could have an option like that, but it seems unusual enough that I probably wouldn't want to write it in. But you can achieve that result in a two-step process:
1. Use DIV+ without the end points/insertions [or regular Divide if you don't need any of DIV+'s other enhancements];
2. Then use DIV+ with end-insets, and "divide" the path object into one segment [something regular Divide won't do].
Kent Cooper, AIA
@3dwannab wrote:
I'm not talking about the center of the 50mm. Please read the description of what I was wanting.
PS the image does not work how the standard divide command works. That's why I have to stretch the line either side by half the width of the object I want to array to distribute that object with even spaces between (not centered).
I agree that the image is not how regular Divide works [the distance between the ends of the Line and the first Block insertion point inward is not the same as the distance between Block insertion points, as Divide would do it]. I don't need a true .DWG to understand what you're after.
I have in mind to work that out, because I could use the same option myself sometimes. Probably not in the next few days, though.... It would be a lot easier if the User could tell the routine how wide the Block is, but it may be possible to have it figure that out.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@november71 wrote:
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Is is possible to select multiple lines and have the block applied to each of the selected lines with the same criteria? distance, scale, etc? And... also always add the same block to both ends of each line, not just the beginning?
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I can work on a multiple-selection option, but in the meantime, it does put them at both ends in DIV+, but not in MEA+ unless the overall length is exactly a multiple of the designated spacing. If you mean to put them at both ends even in MEA+ without an exact-multiple length, that would be "in violation of" the nature of the command, since the spacing between two of them would be different than that between all the others.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@november71 wrote:
.... To have the ability to divide a long line into set (predetermined) lengths..., but importantly, have the block in its correct location, relative to the end of the line .....
If I understand you correctly, I have a suggestion -- two steps, but not requiring any code modification. Use either regular Measure or [if you want any of its greater possibilities] MEA+ without asking for one at the start of the path. Then use DIV+ including putting them at the ends, but dividing it into one segment [regular Divide won't let you do that].
Kent Cooper, AIA
@november71 wrote:
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As far as i can see, you cant select muliple lines in the MEASURE command either?
That's right, nor in regular DIVIDE. One big advantage that DIV+ and MEA+ have over those is that at least you can select multiple objects [albeit only one by one] in one running of the commands, and don't have to recall the command to do another with the same choices [not to mention that they also remember all your previous choices -- one of the main reasons I made them in the first place is that regular DIVIDE and MEASURE don't remember any defaults].
There are several other things about DivideMeasurePlus.lsp that I am already working on, including:
1) In the mark-with-Lines option, whether the Line markers are centered on the path or project to the left or right;
2) Having it display all current settings, and let the User choose only any of them that they want to change, so they don't need to step through and answer all those prompts every time, if they're going to be accepting the defaults for most of them.
I'll add multiple-object-selection-at-once to the list of possible alterations. It would have one very slight drawback. Currently, if you pick a path object that's too short for the command to do what it should, or if in DIV+ you ask it to "divide" into one segment but don't ask for markers at the ends, it lets you know that it can't do anything, but remains in the command. With all-at-once multiple-object selection, it couldn't do that, but could presumably report when it's done whether there were any situations like that [and how many], which would probably be enough.
Kent Cooper, AIA
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