This is one of those great tools when you need it, you just need to know it’s there and where to find it as it is hidden on a ribbon panel that needs to be expanded to see it. The command reports a 2D distance regardless of the elevation of the object you select and it works with any object, including Civil 3D objects like Alignments. Civil 3D then draws the line and reports the distance at the command line along with the x,y coordinates of the start and end of that shortest distance line. For instance, the distance value is set to 0.01 in BIM-m, 1 in BIM-cm. Next you will be asked if you want to draw a line showing the location of the shortest distance. The default value of this parameter is variable in Bricsys predefined templates. Dir/Dist 2 Points: Labels direction & distance with two endpoint. Labels direction/distance with one pick on linear segment. It is a modular system covering the major areas of alignments, design, geotech, parcels, points, sections, surfaces, and more. In an imperial drawing (non-metric, non-ISO, ANSI. When you run the command you will be asked to select the first entity and then the second, the order here really doesn’t matter. MapWorks is Civil/Survey Mapping & GIS software for AutoCAD, BricsCAD, and IntelliCAD. I need to enter a distance (size) in the feet/inches units format - e.g. There you will need to expand the Inquiry panel to find the command Minimum Distance Between Entities. You will find this command on the Analyze tab of the ribbon. For me, the cal command is a powerfull tool. See the prompt below: OFFSET specify offset distance or Through/Erase/Layer < 2148.4547 >: ‘cal CAL > Expression: dist ( end, end )/ 5.Personally, I think this command should be in AutoCAD as almost anyone in any industry could benefit from it, but that’s another topic. For exemple, I can use the OFFSET command and using the apostrophe character (‘) and CAL I can input the a value calculated. Have you ever needed to find the shortest distance between two objects in your drawing? Civil 3D has a command for just that.
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