Show X & Y dimensions of zone tool in plan view..

[fortyone]

Good afternoon team,

Is there a way of showing the X and Y dimensions of a zone? I cant seem to use associative text label in plan view and the zone stamp tool doesn't have this option. AC22

Do you know of a way of doing this?

[Yves]

Barry's object calls macros, so it cannot function without them.

[Gabor Szelei]

Hello,

Can you do it by writing the lengths of the sides of the zones in the correct places? That way it wouldn't matter how many sides the zone has.

It would be best if these could be listed afterwards. This way a report could be created that includes the length of the sides of the zone.

You can see what I mean in the picture.

The perfect solution would be this:

The numbering of the wall sections would always start at the same place and go counterclockwise so that the indexes could be identified. The indexing would come from the room number. This way you could make a list of the lengths of the wall sections.

Do you think this could be done using zones?

Regards:

Gábor

[Cosminn]

Hello,

Archicad doesn’t natively display overall X/Y room dimensions automatically in plan view (zones only report area by default).

I ran into the same limitation, so I built a small GDL-based solution that calculates and displays the overall zone dimensions live, directly from the zone geometry.

It works in plan (and also in sections/elevations if needed), with video tutorials included:

https://www.occular.eu/product-page/automatic-dimensions

Hope this helps.

[Cosminn]

Hi Gabor, 

Yes — this is absolutely possible in Archicad, but not with native zone stamps or labels.

I actually developed a GDL-based solution that reads the full zone polygon and places the length of each edge directly along the corresponding side — regardless of how many sides the zone has (rectangular or irregular).

The data can also be exposed for listing/scheduling, so reports per zone are possible.

At the moment this tool is still in internal use and not yet released publicly (the UI needs some refinement), but it’s on my roadmap following the zone overall dimensions tool.

Your use case description is exactly how I’ve been using it in practice.

However, I’ve recently released a related solution that automatically displays overall X/Y zone dimensions in plans (and can also be used in sections via labels):

https://www.occular.eu/product-page/automatic-dimensions

It solves a slightly different part of the workflow, but it might already help in many cases.

[Barry Kelly]

Sorry I thought I got rid of all the macros.

Must have missed something.

I will have a look at it again later today.

Barry.

[Mathias Jonathan]

Zones are rarely "orthogonal" in our project. I didn't see any orientation option in your objects. Is there something on the subject?

[Cosminn]

Thanks for raising this — could you share a quick screenshot of one of those zones?

I’d like to better understand the geometry you’re referring to and how you typically document it.

[Cosminn]

Please check this link below, there are video tutorials as well:

https://www.occular.eu/product-page/automatic-dimensions

let me know if I can help.

[Barry Kelly]

Here is the amended object with no macros.

I will update the file in the previous post as well.

Barry.

[Shir_2025]

Hi Barry

This is exactly what i was after. Thank you very much