Railing panel Area - is it possible to schedule it?

[alemanda]

Is it possible to get the area of the panels of a railing?
I'm trying everything (I think) but I was not able so fare to get that value ...

[Barry Kelly]

Not that I can see.
Only the height and width of each panel is available.

I just quickly tried with the new expressions in properties in version 22 and that seems to work.
Create an expression for 'height * width' and associate it to the railing panels.
Then you can schedule that property.

Barry.

[alemanda]

Thanks Barry!
I think this is a missing scheduling feature ... we need panels' areas.
Your method works in case of rectangular panels ... in my case I have non-rectangular panels with SEO on the bottom profiles ... I woudl need the net area of them ...