topic Re: Fills - areas in Modeling

Fills - areas

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 17:50:36 GMT

i have a problem where if i create a fill and check show area and say the size id 2'X5' therefore 10 s.f. the fill text reads 0.93 s.f.. no matter what fill shape i do it always way under states the actual area. if i use zone tool it gets area correct.
anyone seen this with the area tool?

thanks
donald mac donald

V9, G-5 w/ OSX v 10.3.6

Re: Fills - areas

Aaron Bourgoin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:04:13 GMT

Under Preferences verify that the Dimension preference for Fills is set to square feet.

Re: Fills - areas

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:35:41 GMT

yes i checked that. its set to sq. ft.
none of my prefs that i can see are set to meters.
i'm at a loss.
thanks,
donald mac donald

Re: Fills - areas

Aaron Bourgoin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:16:56 GMT

double click the view in the view set you're working from and verifiy the dimensioning prefs there. AC9 can remember dimension prefs for different viewsets. Very handy, but potentially problemmatic.

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Re: Fills - areas

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:38:27 GMT

0.93 is the area in m2.
There was another issue just yesterday that the Zone Settings Dialog displayed the are in m2 no matter what you set anywhere. On the Floor PLani s was correct, though.
Could be a bug.

Re: Fills - areas

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:24:09 GMT

i was able to correct the problem finally by changing at prefs-dimensions-areas from s.f. to meters. then back to a view then select a fill and it changed from the wrong s.f. number to the correct sq. meter number then back to prefs-dimensions-areas and reset to s.f. and then back to view and it changed to s.f. and area was correct.

thanks for your help.

donald mac donald

Re: Fills - areas

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:46:19 GMT

This also seems to help the coordiante label issue, but the leader lines still don't show.

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Archicad 9
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