Looking for: routine to highlight overlapping dimensions

Anybody have a routine that can check for sloppy dimensioning?

I can't really say "sloppy" though since it happens to me every once in a
while. The problem is using "DimContinue" and grabbing a dimension, it
sometimes starts from the wrong end and crosses over the other dimension.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Craig

 

If it's just "once in a while," how about ERASE followed by DIMLINEAR ... ?
LISP is a poor substitute for, well, sloppy work.
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Sorry, that was a bit unkind ... and re-reading, I realize you asked for a
routine to *highlight* such errors. Unfortunately, since the errant
dimensions don't fully overlap, routines like OVERKILL probably won't do the
job, and finding overlapping but different dimensions that share only a
single endpoint may not be a trivial task. Offhand, I can't think of an
effective solution, but then I'm not a LISPer of the caliber of some of the
other folks here.
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Like Paul, I can't think of a programmatic approach, but a manual method
might be to isolate the dimension layer and set all dim text to its home
position. Then it might be fairly obvious when the dim text wasn't in the
middle of the apparent dimension line.

Of course, this would mess up any "good" dimensions which have been manually
positioned. You'd have to take note of the bad ones, then undo back to where
you were, then fix them. Doesn't sound like fun!

 

Thanks, guys. It is kind of a complicated routine, I think. Especially
when you get to rotated/aligned dimensions.

The most difficult errors of this type are when you have a long dimension
next to a short one, i.e. 50'-0" next to 1'-0". It is hard to see that the
50' text isn't centered.