Digitize Rectangle

This command enables you to quickly create rectangles while digitizing. In the dialog, you can pick to set elevations to the rectangles, otherwise all rectangles will have 0.0 elevation. The Elevation Adder will be added to the value you enter in for the prompt "Enter polyline elevation <0.00>:". For example, if you know all the rectangles you are creating are in the 200s for elevation, you can put in this value for the Elevation Adder and simply put 46, 54, 57, etc. when prompted, and your rectangles will end up with the elevations of 246, 254, 257 etc. There are three ways to enter a layer name, Use current drawing layer, Select from a list of layer name, or Pick an entity on the screen to get its layer name. Auto-Zoom mode would automatically zoom the display to center around the last point when you get near the edge of the screen while picking points.

Annotate closed pads will label your rectangles according to the Settings button/dialog shown below:

In this dialog, you can enter in a Prefix or a Suffix to the elevation, and determine the labels position, orientation, precision out to 5 decimal places, its layer, and text size.

Prompts

Target surface: Design
Digitize Rectangle Dialog Make any chances you desire in the above dialogs.
Enter polyline elevation <0.00>: 200
First point: pick a point on the drawing using puck
Segment length: 0.00, Total length: 0.00
Close[A]/Undo[B]/Osnap[.]/Pick next point: pick next point
Segment length: 1105.96, Total length: 1105.96
Close[A]/Undo[B]/Osnap[.]/Pick next point: pick next point
Segment length: 426.83, Total length: 1532.79, Area: 236021.59
Close[A]/Undo[B]/Osnap[.]/Pick next point (Enter to end): After 3 points you can press (A) for Close to create a rectangle
Digitize Another FINAL_PAD Polyline [Yes(A)/<No(B)>]? B for No

Prerequisite: a digitizer
Keyboard Command: DIG_RECT