Is there an easy way to total lengths of different dimensions in a drawing.

What I mean is that I make Bills of quantity from drawings. These architectural drawings have many apartments, having pipes with different diameters for soil water, vent pipes etc. I have to get the total length of these different diameters used in the building. I know its monotonous and I have to do it all through my day. Plus it is very stressful cause a mistake in a BOQ is very expensive.

Is there a way, in which maybe a lisp probably brings up a dialog box having diameter 100,50,32...... to which i could click the line and it sums up the total meter run.

I am not sure if this can be done, but I have to individually add up all lengths for different diameters. I have a lisp that gives me the total length though. But once the total length is added it unselects all the lines and it does not delete and ones that are measured. So I have to look for the unmeasured ones among the measured ones again. Moreover the lines that represent these pipes are shown in such a way that the dimensions are pointed to the line by an arrow. Is there a way to search for these numbers in dtext and highligth the corresponding lines? Find and replace, is not appropriate for this, I believe.

Kindly view the attached image to see what I mean.

Frankly, I am looking for perspective. Since I have not been using Autocad for long, I want to know how other users would tackle this issue.

Any feedback is appreciated.

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There are two programs, SelSim and GeomProps.

SelSim - a choice on the sample if the group of your pipes has any excellent feature: a layer, colour, line type..., having specified to one program select all similar in the drawing

GeomProps - adds in the standard panel of the Property, new parametres Length (sum), Area (sum) Volume (sum).

The truth they in Russian, if that is necessary can ask to translate the author of the program to you

Skype - rivilis

Yahoo! - alexander_rivilis

GeomProps.zip

SelSim.zip

Thank you Geobuilder. I think these would be great tools to use. But selsim would not open as the archive is corrupted or damaged. Winzip error.

Could you re upload?

In archive ARX applications for different versions of AutoCAD, for 2010х64 it is damaged, has replaced without it, we will hope that at you 32 bit AutoCAD

An easy way may be to place the different diameters on their own layers, then you could isolate one layer at a time and run a BOM lisp for each one.

One of those being located here ---->

http://www.jtbworld.com/lisp/bomlengths.htm

Geobuilder, could you please ask the author to translate these and give them to me. I think these tools will be of great help.

Geobuilder, could you please ask the author to translate these and give them to me. I think these tools will be of great help.

No, I think it will be better if you ask him yourself. I gave his address(co-ordinates) in 2 post