I am trying to measure the area of an office space within the stadium and keep getting a ridiculous figure - it keeps saying that it is something like 14 thousand square metres. Am I doing something wrong because it should be coming in somehwere near 150 sq metres?
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I am responsible for populating a database in which one of the fields is the area of individual rooms in a building. The instructions indicated that I was to use polylines to enclose each room / area and to find the area based on these values.
Earlier this year, another student was hired to confirm the measurements on building blueprints. This student took accurate measurements of each room, however instead of correcting the drawings, he simply added override text to the dimensions. Therefore the displayed dimensions are correct but my area values using polylines are inaccurate.
The project that I'm working on includes a number of drawings and close to 1000 rooms. I downloaded a function I found online that allows me to figure out which dimensions were overridden by boxing them in a different colour and I've found that it is a significant ammount.
Is there a way to use these overridden dimensions, without altering the physical nature of the drawing, to find the area of a room?Need to use polylines to calculate area of many rooms. Dimensions have been overridden and are inaccurate. Can i use the overridden dimensions without altering the physical drawing?
I am trying to measure an area within a line , the blue line but could be any of the colours in the image below.
I have tried selecting the line with the magic wand but it seems to only select a small segment at a time.
- how to select the whole line , and not just measure the area of the relatively thick line.
- how to measure the area within the line
Lisp that would permit Toggling from Paper Space into the same zoomed area within Model Space and vice versa.
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It is really hard to understand that there is no limit for model space like real world.
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ACA 2012
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Windows 7
Intel Core i7-2600 CPU
3.4GHz - 8GB ram - 64 bit
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I have to draw this:
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