QDIM command
Can you show us your measure "pull down" on mine there is no QDIM, everything is just measuregeom. See the image below
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@rhmayo wrote:Hi - mine looks like the attached...
Perfect, we all have that too. How do we trigger QDIM like you do when selecting one of these choices please:
1) Do you have problems selecting other pulldown menu items like these too?
2) If you slowly hover your mouse cursor over one of these icons, then click/release the mouse button to select it without moving your cursor away from the button for the entire action, does QDIM start up of does the command you chose start up?
Great. So there is nothing wrong with clicking on icons to activate commands.
Are you by chance deciding on your own to call the yellow lines that appear whenever anyone starts MEASUREGOEM as "QDIM" by chance?
That's called QUICK MEASURE
QDIM is not related at all, never has been
AND... Did you also know that those buttons call MEASUREGEOM command then a sub-option, and for as long as AutoCAD has been around you can NEVER call back a command/sub-option with a tap of the spacebar or <enter> key? You can right-click to select the button again from a right-click pop-up menu if it was last used, or reselect the button from th4 RIBBON. I suspect that you are trying to do this, which the program does not offer as a solution.
Let us know if I understood your issue correctly.
@rhmayo wrote:...the dimension command....
That's a command called DIMLINEAR (and DIMALIGNED), the buttons for them call those specific commands.
back in the old days they were not, you had to call DIM command first, then called HOR or VERT or whatever to get the sub-options. And back then if you just tapped the spacebar or <enter> you got no where either.
MEASUREGEOM is one command with all of these options
If you only ever what to use those options, then you need to replace those RIBBON icons with the old commands instead, then like DIMLINEAR, simply tapping the spacebar will repeat them
and in some cases just starting commands that do not just have easy reporting 'measure" options.
You could also automate with LISP too.
How would you like to proceed, keeping in mind the RIBBON as it exists today will never do what you want when using those MEASURE buttons.
@rhmayo wrote:... spacebar to repeat last command - 'cept it - - - - doesn't 😂
Actually it is: it is repeating MEASUREGEOM command.
Not the sub-option.
It is repeating MEASUREGEOM command.
BTW, to turn off QUICK MEASURING so you never see it, start the MEASUREGEOM command, go into the MODE sub-option, answer NO to the question
This is what is behind those buttons in the RIBBON if you want to know more, the circled is the only thing that repeats with the tap of the spacebar or <enter>:
