Is there a macro that searches for and displays all active dimension objects? all pages?
cscartdept said:Is there a macro that searches for and displays all active dimension objects? all pages?
Could you clarify what you mean by, "displays all active dimension objects"?
I want to find all dims and see if any and how many. does not work in the 'find' tool..WTH??
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OtYz-XrruPIs-LpLffr2RPKOdCUvsJ8n
Here is a macro that lets you "walk through" all of the dimensions on the page, selecting each one in turn:
JQ_Sequentially_Select_Dimensions_2018_08_06_1657.zip.
It looks like this:
VIDEO: Sequentially Select Dimensions demo 01
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Nice. Anyway to .Show modeless so that I can change pages and check for dimensions?
I did this modal because I didn't want to dig in too deeply at this point without knowing more about what your needs were. Not much fun to work up something and then have the prospective user say, "Thanks, but not what I need." because I didn't understand the nature of the problem.
Would it be just as useful to you - or more useful - to get a count of the dimensions for the page, then have a colored rectangle drawn around each of the dimensions? It could have a one-shot cleanup to remove all of the rectangles.
Here's one that is still modal, but allows navigation to different pages. It does its thing for the current page immediately after being launched, and again every time a page change takes place. No more messageboxes, as it shows the number of dimensions in a textbox.
The .GMS file: JQ_Sequentially_Select_Dimensions_2018_08_06_2332.zip.
Short video of it in use:
VIDEO: Sequentially Select Dimensions demo 02
Very cool. Thanks again Eskimo!!
Based on some work I did recently for a "zoom to selection" thing, I could easily modify the macro shown above to zoom in to each dimension as it is selected. That might be useful if one were using this to visually inspect dimensions on a large drawing.