Chances are it has happened to you when you received drawings from someone else, you have dimensioned components but something does not add up. Hopefully you notice there is a discrepancy and the person has cheated with dimension value overrides, or you could be headed for a headache in fabrication or construction. Stephen Preston Autodesk DevTech Americas Manager wrote a nice plugin that will help you identify these overridden dimensions as well as including all the source code to see how it was accomplished.
June’s Plugin of the Month: Dimension Patrol Kean’s post with source code and download the plugin and provide feedback on the Autodesk Labs Plugin of the Month page.
Follow the instructions to download and load using the AutoCAD command NETLOAD.
Example: Set DIMPATROL value to 1 then check out the drawing and you see the suspect dimensions highlighted in red transparent highlights
Cheers,
Shaan
AutoCAD Free Plugin of the Month for June 2010 ~ Dimension Patrol
will this Plugin work in AutoCAD LT 2011?
I am new to this.
Cannot find NETLOAD
Will not load
Patrick,
Make sure you review the ReadMe for install and support details. In order for NETLOAD to run you need to have Microsoft .NET installed which is normally installed with AutoCAD 2010/2011.
Best Regards,
Shaan
And AutoCAD LT doesn’t support customization through .NET, LISP, ObjectARX, VBA or any other API. You’ll need full AutoCAD to use this.