Measuring amount of multiple types of line for chart

[oscar_gonzalez5]

Is there a way to measure(ft) multiple types of poly lines (electrical) laid out a neighborhood? Would really help if I could link that to a chart that gets updated lengths as a I take delete/add.    

[komondormrex]

hey,

you may add a field which would be a summary of all plines lengths. this field would update it value upon changing lengths of any summing pline. however it would report error when summing pline is deleted. to keep a filed consistent with all current summing plines a lisp program would be needed.

[paullimapa]

Try solutions from this thread

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/is-there-a-lisp-routine-to-extract-p...

[Sea-Haven]

Using fields updates values on the fly but if you have a 100+ plines the field will probably fall apart a nightmare to code, the simple way is have a Add / Delete option in a lisp and it goes away and finds all plines and updates values somewhere. The get plines and add would take maybe a second or 2. 

Need more info a finished output and a matching sample dwg.