Invalid dimensions

[robert.1.hall72202]

Can somebody point me to a program or routine that will check drawings for
invalid (typed in overides) dimensions????
I have a few files I have found on the internet but they only work with earlier releases of AutoCad. Anyone have something that works with newer versions?

[michael.12445]

We had the same problem, so we wrote the attached LISP file (To use, type DIMCHK at the command: prompt). It asks you to select a string of dimensions, then draws ovals around the ones that have been "fudged."

If your dimensioning tolerance is set large enough, it's also possible to create a string of dimensions and an overall dimension, where the string doesn't add up to the overall due to rounding errors, even though none of the dimension values were overridden. Therefore these totals are reported on the command line, as well as showing ovals around the fudged dimensions.

Note that it only works with "linear" (horizontal and vertical) dimensions, not "aligned" dimensions.

Michael Evans
Togawa & Smith, Inc.

[Spectrefish]

Can somebody point me to a program or routine that will check drawings for
invalid (typed in overides) dimensions????
I have a few files I have found on the internet but they only work with earlier releases of AutoCad. Anyone have something that works with newer versions?Here is a lisp that will change the color of typed over dimensions. You can customize the color by adding whatever color number you want. You can either load it in your startup suite or run it drawing by drawing. If all your dimensions are in model space then you need to use the lisp in model space. If they are in paper space you need to use it in paperspace.

I use this with 2005.