Create a Linear Dimension with ARX

Acad::ErrorStatus postToDatabase (AcDbEntity *pEnt)

{

  AcDbObjectId idObj;

  Acad::ErrorStatus es;

  AcDbBlockTable *pBlockTable;

  AcDbBlockTableRecord *pSpaceRecord;

 

  AcDbDatabase *pDb =

      acdbHostApplicationServices()->workingDatabase();

 

  es = pDb->getBlockTable(pBlockTable,

                    AcDb::kForRead);

 

  if (es == Acad::eOk )

  {

    es = pBlockTable->getAt(ACDB_MODEL_SPACE,

                    pSpaceRecord, AcDb::kForWrite);

 

    if ( es == Acad::eOk )

    {

      es = pSpaceRecord->appendAcDbEntity (idObj, pEnt);

      pSpaceRecord->close ();

    }

    pBlockTable->close ();

  }

 

  return es;

}

 

void CreateLinDim()

{

  AcGePoint3d pnt1, pnt2;

 

  // pick start point

  acedGetPoint(NULL,

      L"\nPick bottom left point ",

      asDblArray(pnt1));

  acedGetPoint(asDblArray(pnt1),

      L"\nPick top right point ",

      asDblArray(pnt2));

 

  // now create our dimensions

  AcDbRotatedDimension *dimH =

      new AcDbRotatedDimension(0.0,

      pnt1, pnt2,

      pnt1 – AcGeVector3d  (0, 10, 0));

 

  AcDbRotatedDimension *dimV =

      new AcDbRotatedDimension((4*atan(1.0))/2.0,

      pnt1, pnt2,

      pnt1 – AcGeVector3d (10, 0, 0));

 

  // add to model space

  postToDatabase (dimH);

  postToDatabase (dimV);

 

  // close after use

  dimH->close();

  dimV->close();

}