topic Re: Automatic Dimensions in AutoCAD Forum

Automatic Dimensions

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:38:26 GMT

Hi all.

New user here.

2d foundation plan: Does a function exist that will automatically generate a dimension at each change in direction? (in lieu of selecting a dimension style then selecting each point to generate the dimensions)

Re: Automatic Dimensions

pendean — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:49:54 GMT

Nope, all dimensions are user created/driven.

Re: Automatic Dimensions

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:39:58 GMT

If you make the perimeter a single Polyline, there are routines out there that will dimension all edges of a Polyline, such as DimPoly.lsp, >here<. Read more in that thread for background, optional approaches, links to other routines, etc.

Other than that, depending on the configuration, you may be able to use QDIM, which can at least do same-direction Dimensions on an entire side of things in one shot, though not the entire thing all around in one shot.

Re: Automatic Dimensions

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:30:21 GMT

Thank you for the response.

Jason

Re: Automatic Dimensions

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:31:43 GMT

Thank you for the quick response.

Jason