topic Re: Zones don't show SF correctly. in Modeling

Zones don't show SF correctly.

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:52:20 GMT

What am I missing? In AC9(osx) the sf area of zones doesn't show correctly in the zone dialog. It does appear correctly in the update zones dialog and sometimes in the zone stamp, but not always. I have check the dialogs and pref. , but can't find any cause for this..... Anyone experience this?

Re: Zones don't show SF correctly.

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:13:45 GMT

Just wanted to say your not alone. I have never used zones in Archicad because the SF never display properly. It usually just says 0.0 sf on the plan, but will have the correct size in the zone settings. For area calculations I just use fills. It would be nice to have a use for the zone tool though

Re: Zones don't show SF correctly.

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:57:51 GMT

Hi,
I am just starting to use the Zones, if this true that are not usable do to BUGs in the SF calculations and display why it was not addressed in AC9 or any discussion on it?
Thanks,
Joseph Harouni

Re: Zones don't show SF correctly.

Rakela Raul — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 18:22:16 GMT

no problems w zone tool

Re: Zones don't show SF correctly.

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:15:35 GMT

Rakela wrote:
no problems w zone tool

Thank You for the assurance, I hope someone with more understanding of the zones can help our other two good users.
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: Zones don't show SF correctly.

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:39:05 GMT

This is what I'm talking about. Note: the zone stamp says 100sf, the Update Zone dialog says 100sf, but the zone tooll dialog shows 9.29sf..... I don't get it.

Re: Zones don't show SF correctly.

Rakela Raul — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:52:17 GMT

gross area = includes walls
net area = excludes all or part of walls
does it help joseph? im just learning archicad

Re: Zones don't show SF correctly.

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:56:15 GMT

The area value shown in the dialog (9.29) is the number of square meters in 100sf. It looks like a bug.

Re: Zones don't show SF correctly.

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:15:04 GMT

Thanks Matthew....... That sounds like the best answer yet. I figured it was something like that. It's nice to know I'm not crazy. Well...... at least as it relates to zones in Archicad.

Thanks all

Re: Zones don't show SF correctly.

Rakela Raul — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:29:44 GMT

in the last 2 weeks i have done alot of zone area calculations and after this i went back to see if my calcs are all wrong, i did a few by hand and fortunately they are good...could it be something related to preferences/zones or calculation units?

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=3304