volume - How do I find a house built volume

[Anonymous]

It gives such a house, which is required to build volume. With all the roof or not.

How can I find a house built in volume?

[Steve Jepson]

Get a very large bucket and fill it with water. Put the house in the bucket.
Measure the volume of water that is missing when you take the house out of the water.

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.

[Anonymous]

the zones I thought too, in the room is ok, but what do the attic and roofs?

[Anonymous]

You can SEO zones to roofs, etc

If you want to see zones in 3d, You can turn zones on

View - Elements in 3D view - Filter elements in 3D

Once you have SEO your zones, you will need to update your zones

Design - Update Zones (I think this only works in plan view)

This will re-calculate your volumes.

[vistasp]

Steve wrote:
Get a very large bucket and fill it with water. Put the house in the bucket.
Measure the volume of water that is missing when you take the house out of the water.

Not if it floats, though. Then you're only be able to measure the weight of the house. 😉

[Anonymous]

Hi,

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 Lists/Elements/General Element List


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 Lists/Elements/Wall/General

Regards, Ede