https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128683#M13687 <BLOCKQUOTE>Steve wrote:<BR />Get a very large bucket and fill it with water. Put the house in the bucket.<BR /> Measure the volume of water that is missing when you take the house out of the water.</BLOCKQUOTE> Not if it floats, though. Then you're only be able to measure the weight of the house. <E><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></E> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:14:52 GMT vistasp 2011-06-24T05:14:52Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128679#M13683 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>It gives such a house, which is required to build volume. With all the roof or not.<BR /> <BR /> How can I find a house built in volume?</T></DIV> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:39:35 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128679#M13683 Anonymous 2011-06-17T08:39:35Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128680#M13684 Get a very large bucket and fill it with water. Put the house in the bucket.<BR /> Measure the volume of water that is missing when you take the house out of the water.<BR /> <BR /> Or you could place some zones in the rooms of the house and extract the volume of the space in the house into a schedule. Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:54:29 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128680#M13684 Steve Jepson 2011-06-17T23:54:29Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128681#M13685 the zones I thought too, in the room is ok, but what do the attic and roofs? Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:23:36 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128681#M13685 Anonymous 2011-06-18T13:23:36Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128682#M13686 You can SEO zones to roofs, etc<BR /> <BR /> If you want to see zones in 3d, You can turn zones on<BR /> <BR /> View - Elements in 3D view - Filter elements in 3D<BR /> <BR /> Once you have SEO your zones, you will need to update your zones<BR /> <BR /> Design - Update Zones (I think this only works in plan view)<BR /> <BR /> This will re-calculate your volumes. Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:41:04 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128682#M13686 Anonymous 2011-06-18T14:41:04Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128683#M13687 <BLOCKQUOTE>Steve wrote:<BR />Get a very large bucket and fill it with water. Put the house in the bucket.<BR /> Measure the volume of water that is missing when you take the house out of the water.</BLOCKQUOTE> Not if it floats, though. Then you're only be able to measure the weight of the house. <E><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></E> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:14:52 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128683#M13687 vistasp 2011-06-24T05:14:52Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128684#M13688 Hi, <BR /> <BR /> If you want to know the volume of the building shell (all the walls, windows, roof and doors) you can save the whole building as an object and get the volume with the <B>Lists/Elements/General Element List</B> <BR /> <BR /> <BR /> If you want to get the external volume of the building (I think this is what you wish) you can make a proximate massing volume with complex profiles and get the volume with <B>Lists/Elements/Wall/General</B><BR /> <BR /> Regards, Ede Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:34:40 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/volume-How-do-I-find-a-house-built-volume/m-p/128684#M13688 Anonymous 2011-06-24T06:34:40Z