topic Re: ACAD 2025 Wall Lengths in AutoCAD Forum

ACAD 2025 Wall Lengths

BillAllenSE — Tue, 21 May 2024 17:04:32 GMT

I need to determine the lengths of two types of walls (right now, interior and exterior). The walls are drawn with two lines. I'm too embarrassed to say how I'm trying to do that now. Let's just say it would be easier using Bluebeam markups.
Is there an easier way to do this?
Thank you

Re: ACAD 2025 Wall Lengths

pendean — Tue, 21 May 2024 17:18:59 GMT

@BillAllenSE wrote:
I need to determine the lengths of two types of walls...

By chance, did nothing here worked for you? Elaborate please.

Plain AutoCAD does not do "walls", but each line can be measured using:

DIST command (sort of how Bluebeam does it)

LIST command

DIMLINEAR or DIMALIGNED commands if your DIMSTYLE is correctly preset.

HTH

Re: ACAD 2025 Wall Lengths

BillAllenSE — Tue, 21 May 2024 17:24:31 GMT

Thank you for your response, but I don't need to measure the length of each line. What I want is the total length of the walls. I've tried overlaying the walls with a polyline, but the interior walls are not continuous. I've also tried bpoly to get the areas and divide by the thickness, but, again, the interior walls are all segmented and it's still tedious.
With Bluebeam, I also wouldn't measure. I would use a markup tool for each type of wall and get a summary of the total markups (count and length and whatever other property I would want to use).
It just seems tedious to me to draw a polyline over the walls, and count each one individually. I just thought there might be a slick way of doing it in ACAD.

Re: ACAD 2025 Wall Lengths

pendean — Tue, 21 May 2024 17:54:04 GMT

@BillAllenSE wrote:
...What I want is the total length of the walls....

My bad, I misunderstood: nothing core to AutoCAD does that, you'll want to use a custom LISP like this

https://www.lee-mac.com/totallengthandarea.html