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Re: Areas

by Philippe <contact@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feb 27, 2008 at 01:04 PM

Ranger a écrit :
> On 26 Feb, 17:01, strawberry <zac.ca...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>   
>> On 26 Feb, 16:55, strawberry <zac.ca...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> In AutoCad 2008 it seems they still haven't resolved the issue of
>>> displaying the area of objects on the drawing - a floorplan with
>>> columns, say. I still use an old custom routine for this but it seems
>>> by now someone would have thought of a way of combining this
>>> functionality within something like the HATCH command, such that any
>>> amendments to the hatch boundary would have a corresponding impact on
>>> the displayed value - or am I missing something?
>>>       
>> I should add that the fact that listing a hatch object gives you its
>> area in units² suggests that the capability is already there, just not
>> implemented.
>>     
>
> As Autodesk bought REVIT a couple of years ago, why can't they take
> some of it's good points and put them in AutoCAD? I refer to the room
> tags which give area information. I know you would need to designate
> lines as room bounding same as REVIT does for walls but they have the
> code so how dificult is it to copy it over?
>
> I do a lot of space areas for retail design and this would be ideal.
> At present I draw a polyline on a specific layer (area outlines) then
> look at it's properties. When I change the shape of the space I adjust
> the polyline but it would be good if it was more automatic.
>
> John
>   
Hello,

You can give a look here :
http://www.delicad.com/autocad/activeline_pro.php

It is in french, but I can translate it if anyone is interested.

Philippe

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 7 Posts in Topic:
Areas
strawberry <zac.carey@  2008-02-26 08:55:27 
Re: Areas
strawberry <zac.carey@  2008-02-26 09:01:27 
Re: Areas
Ranger <johnahall@[EMA  2008-02-26 13:27:25 
Re: Areas
Philippe <contact@[EMA  2008-02-27 13:04:53 
Re: Areas
strawberry <zac.carey@  2008-02-27 14:59:04 
Re: Areas
sakoguy <dstockton@[EM  2008-02-29 04:55:05 
Re: Areas
strawberry <zac.carey@  2008-03-01 00:42:23 

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