View shape dimensions

Anonymous — Sat, 15 May 2021 10:56:23 GMT

Hello,

I'm completely new to AutoCAD. I've drawn rectangles by inputting length and width in mm, and after doing this I would expect to see these dimensions showing somewhere in the Properties panel for that shape. In the Geometry section of Properties I can see various figures but none of them are the dimensions of the rectangle that I inputted. Am I looking in the wrong place for the dimensions or is that I'm not building the shape in the right way?

Re: View shape dimensions

Kent1Cooper — Sat, 15 May 2021 11:45:52 GMT

A rectangle made with the RECTANG command is just a Polyline. Once it's drawn, AutoCAD doesn't know it was made with that command, as opposed to having been drawn point by point, or made with the POLYGON command as a square and maybe STRETCHed, or originating from four Lines and joined together with JOIN or PEDIT's Join option, etc. There is no entity type called a rectangle, nor any rectangle "property" of such a Polyline -- it's being rectangular is just a matter of the positional relationship of its vertices, and nothing else about it distinguishes it from any quadrilateral shape.

But if you have Dynamic Input turned on [F12 key -- the DYNMODE System Variable], you can just pick on it, and hover the cursor over any of the corner grips, and you'll see the lengths of the adjacent edges.

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View shape dimensions

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