Hi there I have a question, but first I will explain the Question.I am a draughtsman who draws roads everyday. I use the measure command to measure the road, by adding a block every 20m. Now the block that I use has text to it, which I have to edit afterwards. ie, it starts at 0m and then I edit the text ( after I exploded the block ) every 20m. 0m, 20m, 40m, ect... Now my question is..Can I have the measure command edit that text automatically? Is there a different command to be used? So that when I finished measuring the line, the text is edited from 0m to, for example, 1560m automatically. If anyone can help me, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.

The Measure command will not change the text automatically.  It sounds like you might need a custom lisp routine that handles chainage or what we in America would call stationing.

Thanks. I will give it a shot.

You can try the LGC3 command from the LGC utility (free). See:
http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/qaID.asp?tip=5883

These are the kinds of problems that take creative thinking if you're not using a program dedicated to this type of work, such as Civil 3D.  You just have to come up with something custom.  If this were my problem I'd start playing around with grabbing segment centerline length values and putting them in a table stashed somewhere off on the side.  From there arithmetic should be able to get total station numbers that could be pulled back into the drawing.... at least this is where I'd start.  Dave

I've seen at least two chainage lisp routines floating about.

By all means, go with a store bought mix (LISP) before cooking from scratch!Dave