topic Re: ORTHO dimesion lines with broken legs. refer attached image. in AutoCAD Plant 3D Forum

ORTHO dimesion lines with broken legs. refer attached image.

rvetalM4T2D — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:15:58 GMT

Is there any way to create dimension style as attached in image.

Re: ORTHO dimesion lines with broken legs. refer attached image.

DVaquand — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:41:40 GMT

Hello

To my knowledge in manual mode NO or by programming perhaps.

== French ==

A ma connaissance en mode manuel NON ou alors par de la programmation peut-être.

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Dominique VAQUAND
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Re: ORTHO dimesion lines with broken legs. refer attached image.

Michiel.Valcke — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:25:04 GMT

So you want arrows for the first dimension and dots for the continuous dimensions?

The easiest way would be to make two dimension styles, and place the arrows-style default and then afterwards modify the style of the other dimensions so they will update to dots - or vice versa.

Re: ORTHO dimesion lines with broken legs. refer attached image.

rvetalM4T2D — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:43:53 GMT

I see, thanks. But that is not what I am looking for. I want dimension style with broken legs as attached in image.

Re: ORTHO dimesion lines with broken legs. refer attached image.

Michiel.Valcke — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:45:17 GMT

ah, I'm afraid that is not possible.

Re: ORTHO dimesion lines with broken legs. refer attached image.

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Re: ORTHO dimesion lines with broken legs. refer attached image.

rvetalM4T2D — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:28:57 GMT

Hello, Thanks for the responses everyone.
In my opinion a dynamic block mimmicking the dimension will be a good solution to this.
I'm no expert in creating that, may I get some help to create such a dynamic block.

Re: ORTHO dimesion lines with broken legs. refer attached image.

Michiel.Valcke — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:49:15 GMT

You can try the block in this sample drawing as an example to start from - from there you can recreate according to your needs. There are some limitations towards the number of items you can dimension this way (you would need to create separate blocks or visibility states to add more dimensions) and I used fields in attributes for the actual dimension so you need to use the REGEN command to show the actual value. There is also no smart behaviour for the text placements so you have to do the text placements manually.

The people over in the dynamic blocks forum might be able to help you further:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/dynamic-blocks-forum/bd-p/dynamic-blocks-forum-en