Flip Arrow heads and change fill to background

[don_scribner]

Hey guys,

I hope somebody with skill has had to do this as much as I do and created a lisp to make it easy.

Dimensions are often to big ,by ACAD standards, to fit within the extension lines.  If you pull it inside, it WILL fit but AutoCAD flips the arrows and cuts thru the dim with the dimension line. Moving the text off center sometimes flips the arrows.   SO . . .

1) Clip on Dim

2) Hover over one arrow node

3) slide onto pop-up 

4) Hover over node again because the pop-up disappeared

5) Click on flip arrow

6) Repeat for other arrow,

Now . . . properties - text - fill color - drop arrow - background.

The whole thing is as tedious and repetitive as it is ridiculous.  

Does anybody have a lisp that does this in one fell swoop?

Thanks in advance

[Kent1Cooper]

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@don_scribner wrote:

....  If you pull it inside, it WILL fit but AutoCAD flips the arrows and cuts thru the dim with the dimension line. ....  

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Maybe your problem is largely because of default Dimension Style settings.  You can probably take care of at least most of those situations without any routine, by using settings more appropriate to your needs:

The yellow one takes care of your "pull it inside" part.  Your "cuts thru the dim with the dimension line" will not happen if you don't have the green one checked, and that will mean you don't need to deal with masking in the background color.

You will, of course, sometimes still need to monkey with things if even the text part doesn't fit between the extension lines.

[Sea-Haven]

You can move the dim text look at the 25 here but its position is controlled by a lisp when making the dimension as part of a way bigger automation. It makes left and right handed dims. So could do a lisp moving a fixed amount.