https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/8566631#M346665 <P>Excellent !&nbsp; &nbsp;this is save time for me !</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thanks Neil <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:07:35 GMT Anonymous 2019-02-01T14:07:35Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5120514#M346626 <P>Hi!<BR />I would like to know if it's possible to have the total length of different lines by selecting them in a drawing?<BR />Those lines are all separated and it will take forever to do it manually on a calculator <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span><BR />Thx!</P> Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:00:27 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5120514#M346626 veloster 2014-06-27T14:00:27Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5120604#M346627 <P>Welcome to the Autodesk forums.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>AutoCAD doesn't have anything like that built in, but it's easily done with TLEN.lsp (Total LENgth of selected objects)</P> <P><A href="http://www.turvill.com/t2/free_stuff/tlen.lsp" target="_blank">http://www.turvill.com/t2/free_stuff/tlen.lsp</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>If you're not familiar with how to use lisp, simply copy/paste (CTRL+V) <STRONG>ALL</STRONG> the text and characters in the above link into your command line and press Enter, then type TLEN into the command line and follow the command prompt (select the objects)&nbsp; Note using this method, the lisp is only loaded for the current session, if you want it to be a permanent feature, Add it to the Startup Suite or the acaddoc.lsp file.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:41:49 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5120604#M346627 nestly2 2014-06-27T14:41:49Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5120638#M346628 Thanks! Works perfectly! Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:42:18 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5120638#M346628 veloster 2014-06-27T14:42:18Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5121076#M346629 <P>There are <EM>several</EM> additional routines that will do that <A href="http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/node/tiplisting?keywords=total%20length" target="_self">here</A>.</P> Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:24:48 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5121076#M346629 Kent1Cooper 2014-06-27T17:24:48Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5121344#M346630 <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Hello from France</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Welcome to the Autodesk/AutoCAD Forums ! </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I am using since a long time ago this nice French routine : TLENGTH </P> <P>which is running on : LINE , POLYLINE , LWPOLYLINE , ARC , CIRCLE , ELLIPSE , SPLINE , MLINE , REGION , MPOLYGON </P> <P>You can remove easily some entities from the filter inside the routine ...&nbsp; </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thks to Patrick_35 for this beautiful routine ...</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:29:56 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5121344#M346630 braudpat 2014-06-27T19:29:56Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5453892#M346631 <P>working better than what I expected.</P><P>Thanks</P> Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:03:12 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5453892#M346631 ajahmadi 2014-12-28T09:03:12Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5614363#M346632 <P>There's "MeteorSpec" plug-in that calculates the summarized lengths of polylines. &nbsp;Look at Autodesk Exchange apps.&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/ACD/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com:meteorspectrial_windows32and64:en" target="_blank">https://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/ACD/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com:meteorspectrial_windows32and64:en</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:57:26 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5614363#M346632 Anonymous 2015-04-30T15:57:26Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5619786#M346633 thats perfect Mon, 04 May 2015 13:14:04 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5619786#M346633 Anonymous 2015-05-04T13:14:04Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5901159#M346634 <P><SPAN>How do you Add it to the Startup Suite or the acaddoc.lsp file?</SPAN></P> Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:38:02 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5901159#M346634 Anonymous 2015-11-10T14:38:02Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5901200#M346635 <P>Appload command, and look for the suitcase icon, add it in there.</P> Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:56:18 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5901200#M346635 Patchy 2015-11-10T14:56:18Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5901507#M346636 Thanks for the help. Worked great. Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:02:33 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/5901507#M346636 Anonymous 2015-11-10T17:02:33Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/6369633#M346638 <P>when i select the lines and press enter nothing happens.help..</P> Tue, 07 Jun 2016 08:03:37 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/6369633#M346638 Anonymous 2016-06-07T08:03:37Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/6372120#M346639 <P>the command is not working for me.when select the lines and press enter nothing happens.any idea why?my cad is not the full version.not activated.mayb thas y?</P> Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:00:24 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/6372120#M346639 Anonymous 2016-06-08T10:00:24Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/6380418#M346640 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR />@Anonymous wrote:<BR /> <P>....my cad is not the full version....mayb thas y?</P> <HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>If by that you mean you are using AutoCAD LT, that would be the reason. &nbsp;It does not have AutoLisp capability.</P> Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:33:57 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/6380418#M346640 Kent1Cooper 2016-06-13T14:33:57Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/6419750#M346641 <P><SPAN>Click <SPAN>Analyze tab,</SPAN><SPAN>Inquiry panel,</SPAN><SPAN>Add Distances</SPAN>.</SPAN></P> Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:27:22 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/6419750#M346641 yosephk 2016-07-05T15:27:22Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/6807596#M346642 <P>thank, it works very nice..............</P> Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:41:15 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/6807596#M346642 Anonymous 2017-01-16T11:41:15Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/7001494#M346643 <P>Well done it woks very well. Cheers</P> Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:45:09 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/7001494#M346643 Anonymous 2017-04-06T21:45:09Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/7080929#M346644 <P>Thank you. Just what I needed.</P> Fri, 12 May 2017 19:28:41 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/7080929#M346644 Anonymous 2017-05-12T19:28:41Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/7086436#M346645 Very nice thank you so much.. Tue, 16 May 2017 11:09:41 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/7086436#M346645 Anonymous 2017-05-16T11:09:41Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/7096922#M346646 <P>for accumulative lengths by picking points along the way:</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Just searched this little gem out:</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>TLENGTH - PICK FIRST POINT - THEN SELECT MULTIPLE AND CLICK AWAY - RIGHT CLICK TO END = TOTAL LENGTH</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>this is brilliant - no lisp or other complex workarounds</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>well done Pat</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Darren</P> Sat, 20 May 2017 00:17:43 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/how-to-calculate-the-total-length-of-multiple-lines/m-p/7096922#M346646 wisedrawing 2017-05-20T00:17:43Z