How to calculate objects' length Quickly in AutoCAD?
You may have needed to calculate the length of various objects in your drawing if you work with AutoCAD. This can be useful for estimating the materials, costs, or dimensions of your design. However, the default length command in AutoCAD does not allow you to easily calculate and display the lengths of multiple objects.
luckily an AutoCAD LISP routine can be used to quickly calculate the length of objects in AutoCAD. A LISP routine is a small program that can be loaded into AutoCAD and executed to perform various tasks. In this blog post, I'll show you how to use the LISP routine to calculate the length of any object in your drawing and display it in a dialog box.
This lisp prompts the user for a selection of objects to be labeled and proceeds to generate a multi-text object located at the midpoint of each object, displaying a Field Expression referencing the length of the object. The lisp is compatible for use with Arcs, Circles, Lines, Polylines, 2D and 3D Polylines, and under all U C S and View settings.
The lisp will generate multi-text objects positioned directly over the midpoint of each object and aligned with the object whilst preserving text readability. The multi-text will have a background mask enabled and will use the active Text Style and Text Height settings at the time of running the program.
What is the AutoCAD LISP and how do you upload it to AutoCAD?
After you have uploaded the LISP file, you need to type 'MIDLEN' to activate it.
Then select your objects.
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