Hello everyone.
I am trying to generate dimensions from the selected two polylines ( sometimes more than two ) on four sides.
Is this possible ?
Snapshot and a drawing attached.
Thanks in advance.
Generate Dimensions
It may be possible to do something, but probably not just what you show. Your overall Dimensions are not overall, and there are several internal places that Dimensions could be taken to that you don't include. An automated routine would almost surely need to hit every possible dimensionable location along each edge of things. So for what you show, a lot of User selection would be involved to tell it just what you want dimensioned, and what not. You'd do just as well with an ordinary DIMLINEAR to start an edge, and then DIMCONTINUE to go the rest of the way -- no code required.
Also, if you can stand to break the outlines up into edges, look into QDIM, which will do at least a lot of what you want. But with those entire closed shapes, QDIM will also give you Dimensions across to the opposite side.
Kent Cooper, AIA 
What is this - marked red - "straight line"... I am afraid that QDIM will find all gaps along the way of dimensioning...
@marko_ribar wrote:
What is this - marked red - "straight line"... I am afraid that QDIM will find all gaps along the way of dimensioning...
And that one's an actual jog in the shape. There are also edges without jogs but with intermediate vertices [multiple segments along one edge], which QDIM or any automated routine would also pick up on:
And for some reason OVERKILL didn't consolidate those as I expected, so cleaning those up could take some manual work. All the more reason to do it manually with DIMLINEAR and DIMCONTINUE.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@J-Rocks wrote:
.... I can refine the polylines via redrawing them with these extra vertices that are located on segments as an extra ones and will this be suitable to write a routine to dimensions them as needed ?
There would still be the issues described in Message 2.
Kent Cooper, AIA
I did an autodim that does about 90% of what you want it was based on lines and used a crossing line to determine the points to have dimensions. I think I can make it work with pline but it will be different version to original line code. It did a start point and end point is perp to that point. The problem is where your green and purple plines are used.
Why no horizontal dim at this spot ? Jogs have been mentioned.
Is it that hard to use "continue" in the dim command ? Make sure osnap is endpoint.
Top row Dim hor 1st 2 points then "cont"
Dim Ali then cont
