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Tip author Sanjay Kulkarni had an occasion to measure multiple distances repeatedly, but found the built-in AutoCAD commands too tedious. That experience inspired him to create thi... Read more
Frequent contributor Alan Thompson is back this month with a nice little AutoCAD routine that's designed to be loaded at startup time, so insert this code into your ACADDOC.LSP fil... Read more
Bill DeShawn presents a tweak to AutoCAD's built-in Distance command. Bill works in architectural units, but he likes to spot-check distances, and he wants to see the result in dec... Read more
Tip#: 3914
Author: Bill DeShawn
Rename File To: di.lsp,__MACOSX/,__MACOSX/._di.lsp
Alan Thompson is back again with another great routine. This one reports the distance between two points along an entity in AutoCAD. You could use the MeasureGeom command to obtain... Read more
This routine from Alan Thompson reports the total distance between any number of chosen points. It works similarly to the built-in Dist command, except that with this routine, you ... Read more
Tipster Ed Galicki shares a command macro that he uses in AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop (AMD) that helps him calculate centering distances for stacked plates.
DuctiSoft President Andrea Andreetti is back this month with another great routine for AutoCAD. Tadd is a LISP routine that will display the ... Read more
Lee McDonnell is back again, this time with a routine that labels AutoCAD entities with their length. This routine works for circles, lines, arcs, and polylines. Start by loading t... Read more