Select muliple dimensions and Autocad automatically sums them and gives a total

[paul9ZMBV]

Surely there has to be a way of selecting muliple dimensions and Autocad automatically sums them and gives a total.

I find myself having to type into a calculator various dimensions and adding up manually to find out the total sum.

Any ideas i understand lisps cant be used on LT (not that i would know how to write or add a lips)

Any advice much appreciated.

[cadffm · Accepted solution]

"Surely there has to be "

😊

Surely not.

For this goal you should use another program, sorry.

Power-LT-Users can set up a workflow and automation to get the sum by LIST command and an additional external program,

but this is nothing to learn in days (or are you able to program your own tools ? Excel vba would be enough..

[pendean · Accepted solution]

If this is a dire business need then it is time for you to subscribe to full AutoCAD to take advantage of it's programming abilities like this https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/add-dimensions-total/td-p/7608221

if this is a one off wishlist, you spend more time finding a fix instead of using a calculator: unless all of these dimensions are in a single row, end to end, in which case a simple DIMCONTINUE from last to first is all you need to do to get a total.