ksperopoulos Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 I am surprised when I searched on here that there are very few threads for "isometric dimensioning". I am looking for a good lisp either on here or somewhere else that can dimension 3D objects while in an isometric view using annotative dimension styles. It would be nice if it also had the option to cycle through the different planes as well in this program. Does anyone know of such a program? Quote
ReMark Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Why wouldn't you reorient your UCS and then do your dimensioning? Quote
ksperopoulos Posted February 22, 2014 Author Posted February 22, 2014 Two words.....extra clicks! Plus we have multiple planes the dimensioned objects might be on and I don't want to have to reset the UCS every time. Quote
ReMark Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 That's why AutoCAD has a feature called Dynamic UCS. No extra clicks. Quote
ksperopoulos Posted February 22, 2014 Author Posted February 22, 2014 I wish it were that easy. The issue I have with the dynamic UCS is it only works on AutoCad solids. I am trying to dimension objects that are a part of an add-on to AutoCad. So I need to use a rotated dimension that can be placed by using osnaps. After I place the dimension, then ideally I would be able to cycle through the options for dimensions that are along the plane of the selected osnaps. ( Does that make sense? ) Quote
rkent Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 Rotating the ucs is the easy way. You can drag the ucs icon into place and grab one of the icons end points to orient it properly, add dimensions, go again. I don't see a lisp helping all that much. I do have a small lisp that let's me type two letters to rotate the ucs icon about one of the three axis so it makes that part much quicker. Quote
ksperopoulos Posted February 22, 2014 Author Posted February 22, 2014 Rotating the UCS is what I want to eliminate. Believe me. Over the course of thousands and thousands of drawings, these extra steps would really add up to a LOT of wasted time. Quote
ksperopoulos Posted February 25, 2014 Author Posted February 25, 2014 Sorry David, I left my computer at work this last weekend (I had to get away for a little bit). I was busy today, but I will try to post something for you guys to look at tomorrow. Are you wanting the DWG or just an example of a PDF? Quote
ksperopoulos Posted February 26, 2014 Author Posted February 26, 2014 Sorry for the delay. Here is an example of one of our drawings. You will probably have to download the object enabler from here to see the piping. Quote
ksperopoulos Posted February 28, 2014 Author Posted February 28, 2014 Has anyone tried downloading this file yet? I have been having issues posting the file on here so I tried using my google drive. Let me know if you can't access it on my google drive and I will try to figure something else out. Quote
David Bethel Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 Most IT peeps will not allow access to Google drive -David Quote
rkent Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 Has anyone tried downloading this file yet? I have been having issues posting the file on here so I tried using my google drive. Let me know if you can't access it on my google drive and I will try to figure something else out. I tried and it wouldn't work. Get it down under 1000KB and you can post it right here. Quote
ksperopoulos Posted March 1, 2014 Author Posted March 1, 2014 Thanks for trying. I'm not sure why I am having trouble with my google drive. I guess the reason I can't post on here is it is 2.1MB. Sorry for the hassle. Honestly though, it doesn't have to be any particular object. It can just be a polyline that is shown in an isometric view through a viewport. I just though someone would have already done something like this. But if not, I may try to tackle this task myself and see how I do. Quote
steven-g Posted March 1, 2014 Posted March 1, 2014 I downloaded it just fine, I didn't bother with the object enabler, so I could only see the dims. Here is a starter, rudimentary but (LT), I used a macro that inserts a block (pick a point on your object) you then need to pick again on the centre of the block followed by picking on one of the outer points to orient your ucs to the direction that suits your dims (so you can choose one of four orientations), the block is then deleted and dim linear starts up to add your dimension. You need to click a few times but its all on screen, I don't know how it will work with your geometry, but it works fine here. ^C^Cinsert;point;\1;0;Ucs;za;\\erase;l;;dli; You might not find this useful, but thanks for the question because I will use it, ISO test.dwg Quote
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