Continual measuring
What command are you doing for the measuring? Measuring means different things to different people. If you are measuring distances, the MEASUREGEOM command should get you the ability to continually measure distances as a single command.
Christopher T. Cowgill, P.E.
AutoCAD Certified Professional
Civil 3D Certified Professional
Civil 3D 2026 on Windows 11
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Hi and Welcome to AUtoDesk Forum,
I suggest to use Multiple choice from DIST command. specify the first point then enter M for that.
Command: DIST
Specify first point:
Specify second point or [Multiple points]:
Regards,
Imad Habash
Hi,
What do you need to measure. Is it Length that you are mentioning.
Please specify your issue or add a screen shot or a sample drawing.
Cheers,
Vinay Vijayakumaran 
when you start the distance command, click your first point, then click M for multiple, then click your additional points.
Christopher T. Cowgill, P.E.
AutoCAD Certified Professional
Civil 3D Certified Professional
Civil 3D 2026 on Windows 11
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Hi,
Refer Mr. Imad's post.
MEA> Show First point > enter M for multiple > then measure continuously.
Cheers,
Vinay Vijayakumaran
I have some routines that I wrote when I didn't have the Multiple option in the DIST command [attached]. SumDistCont.lsp with its SDC command is similar to DIST with the Multiple option with the added feature that it reports each individual distance along the way, as well as the cumulative total. SumDist.lsp with its SD command does the same reporting and accumulating of a total of multiple distances, but unlike either SDC or DIST / Multiple, for distances that are not strung together continuously, but separate -- it asks for both points for each distance, rather than just the next point and the next, etc., but still adds them up as you keep picking points defining more distances. So you can get the total length of [for instance] a set of Lines representing parallel beams.
EDIT: If you're interested in selecting objects with lengths, rather than picking points to define straight-line-only distances, so that you could include the lengths of Arcs, Splines, etc., there are routines out there to do that. For instance, there are at least three just in the first page of returns in a Search on the Cadalyst CAD Tips site for "total length."
Kent Cooper, AIA 
There is nothing built-in to keep a running total of multiple object lengths.
GrantsPirate
Piping and Mech. Designer
Always save a copy of the drawing before trying anything suggested here.
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