Dimensions with VIF

Greetings,
I want to create a macro or lisp routine or command button that will add
"VIF" to certain dimensions. Also, I would like to be able to turn on
alternate dimensions on any dimension over a certain size. Has anyone
ever come across something like this or similar?

Thanks in advance.
CP

 

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I want to create a macro or lisp routine or command button that will add
"VIF" to certain dimensions.

The easiest way to do this is to create a different dimension style with the
VIF suffix. Then change those dimesnions to that style.

dimension over a certain size.

I think that's going to require a lisp to determine the dimension size, and
then apply an override or change styles.

In general, I think that if there's more than one dimension in a drawing
which needs a special treatment, it's easier to maintain if you add a new
dimension style rather than apply overrides to particular dimensions.

 

Tom's got some good points. Here is a macro
that will let you apply the override to a selection
of dimensions.

;;Adds VIF to selected dimensions.
(defun c:vif ( / ss) ;D. C. Broad 2004
(setq ss (ssget (list (cons 0 "dimension"))))
(command "dim1" "new" "<>VIF" ss ""))

 

Thanks alot guys. Yeah, I thought about Tom's way before but I use multiple
DimStyles. A macro or lisp would be the fastest way to modify the dim text
for any style already in use.

You guys are the best.
CP