topic Re: Problems measuring distances in AutoCAD Forum

Problems measuring distances

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:45:32 GMT

Hi everyone!

I've never had this problem before, but all of a sudden I can't calculate distance between two points.

When I click select the option (Tools -> Calculate -> Distance [or equivalent, I use the Spanish interface]) and I choose my two points, I am asked what I want to measure (lenght, area, ...) instead of giving me the distance. And if I choose distance, I am asked for two points, and so on.

I'm not aware of having changed any parameter or anything.

Thanks in advance,

Eduardo

PD: here you have a video, in case it may help.

Video

Re: Problems measuring distances

nestly2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 22:01:29 GMT

MEASUREGEOM functions require Dynamic Input to be enabled (F12)

Alternately, you could use DIST command.

Re: Problems measuring distances

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 22:23:12 GMT

Thank you very much! I'll accept it as solution in a minute.

By the way, in the past only the number was shown (the menu and the grey rectangle weren't). Do you know how to change that back?

Re: Problems measuring distances

nestly2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 22:35:40 GMT

DYNPROMPT = 0

Re: Problems measuring distances

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:45:15 GMT

Thankyou, this has been driving me crazy since I switched to Autocad 2017! Now if I could just figure out why changing colours is taking so long, I'd be as happy with this as I was with previous releases!!
Have some Kudos!!

Re: Problems measuring distances

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 20:53:10 GMT

Thank you for your answer but i still have same problem, is there anything else need to be active or inactive in order measure to work?

Re: Problems measuring distances

neaton — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:51:08 GMT

DYNPROMPT set to 0 will get rid of the gray box and command prompts will be on the command line. If Dyn Input is on the distances show on the object; if it is off then they are on the command line.

Nancy

@Anonymous wrote:
Thank you for your answer but i still have same problem, is there anything else need to be active or inactive in order measure to work?

Re: Problems measuring distances

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:41:52 GMT

WHAT IF I GET THIS KIND OF MEASURE? ALL I WANT IS THE SIMPLE MEASURE IN MM BETWEEN 2 POINTS. TKS

Re: Problems measuring distances

neaton — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:57:26 GMT

Is the drawings set to millimeters in DWGUNITS? If you select the element and look at it's properties (CTL-1 to turn on Properties palette) what is the length? It appears the item is very long to measure 2 +99 so it may not be on a flat 2D plane but have end points at different elevations. Can you attach the drawing for us to look at?

Nancy

Re: Problems measuring distances

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:24:14 GMT

answering your question, yes, the units are in mm

maybe this is the real problem...things are not on the same plan. I've tried to fix this with a routine that i got in here but all of sudden all other things are going wrong. Now I can't exe fillet, trim, rectangle doesn't have the anchor dots on corners...really i don't know what do do.

If anyone can help please do it on the next 2 hours ...on the 3th i may kill myself...ahahaha

attaching file and it happened to others files as well...

thanks for answering me

Eliana

Re: Problems measuring distances

neaton — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:47:45 GMT

The horizontal and vertical blue lines on PADERES layer are the only ones at the extreme elevation. I did a zoom extents then selected everything and changed their Z elevations to 0.0 in the Properties Palette. This fixed the issue but doesn't solve why it was happening to begin with since ELEVATION is set to 0. AUDIT did find a few errors so one of those may have started it. Do an audit on your other files then manually change everything to elevation 0.0 (takes less than a minute using the Properties palette). I didn't see the extreme elevations inside any of the blocks although not everything is at elevation 0.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Re: Problems measuring distances

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 14:16:08 GMT

this layer paredes is the one that came from the constructor file.

I tried before to set zero on z's but blocks wont allow me to do that, i have to explode them all.

rectangles so far follow the blocks , can't pit them on z=0,00

but its a start.

thanks

Re: Problems measuring distances

neaton — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:35:32 GMT

You don't need to explode the blocks to change the elevations. Open the blocks with the Block Editor (BEDIT or select the block, right-click and choose Block Editor in the right-click menu) and move the linework to elevation 0 in the Properties palette and save the blocks.