Total Length of different lines

[Anonymous]

Dear all,

I have a problem to calculate the total length of lines in CAD drawing as below:

We are making cable layout with many different cable types based primarily on their thicknesses and calculate the total lengths of different cable types to make a bill of material for further processing.

My questions are : How can I draw the lines with different thickness in a same layer named Cabling, for an example ? Then calculate the total length of different lines based on their thicknesses to table and export to excel spreadsheet for cost estimating.

[Kent1Cooper]

Welcome to these Forums!

For the totaling of the lengths of multiple objects part of it, check this out, and I'm sure there other such routines you can find with some Searching.  You should be able to apply something like that to an application of QSELECT or FILTER or SELECTSIMILAR that can filter for lineweight or Polyline width, to isolate those with such properties in common.  I leave the exporting to Excel to others....

[3wood]

SELECTSIMILAR can't differentiate Polyline width.

[ВeekeeCZ]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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My questions are : How can I draw the lines with different thickness in a same layer named Cabling, for an example ? Then calculate the total length of different lines based on their thicknesses to table and export to excel spreadsheet for cost estimating.

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Sure, use DATAEXTRACTION command. There are properties as thickness or lineweight available. You can select all objects in your Cabling layer.

Just curious, how do you control that your cables has correct thickness? Visual control must be difficult, potential of mistake is big...?

[Anonymous]

@ВeekeeCZ : Your question is cool. In the beginning of drafting, we faced the problem of choosing wrong cable thicknesses. However, we deal with this by lay-outing cable by cable.