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?

 

[Shir_2025]

Would it possible to convert the millimetres into metres and remove the last two decimal ?

and also have the text in mult row text? I am currently doing it manually.

Thank you

[Barry Kelly]

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@Shir_2025 wrote:

Would it possible to convert the millimetres into metres and remove the last two decimal ?

and also have the text in mult row text? I am currently doing it manually.

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Anything is possible if you know a little GDL.

This is a very old object and does not use the project preferences for units of measurement, but it could be made to do so.

This one is just millimeters or meters.

It simply converts the measured value and converts it to a text string.

You can alter the string for meters to show only one decimal place, in the 2D script....

IT also simply places the text with the TEXT2 command.

This will simply give you a single line of text.

That would need to be changed to use the PARAGRAPH and RICHTEXT2 commands that would allow for a specific width of text.

Then you could add a hotspot to control that width, creating new lines.

But this would also interfere with the text above and below, so their position would have to be adjusted to allow for the extra lines of text.

Or if you always want two lines for the room size, you could add extra TEXT2 commands to output the height and width on separate lines.

You would still have to adjust the position of the text above and below.

I am just sharing the object as it is, and I am happy for you to edit it or have someone else edit it.

Unfortunately I don't have the time to alter the object for specific needs.

If you reduce the decimal points, you may not need to add the second line anyway.

Barry.

[Shir_2025]

That's great and I have managed to change it, Thank you

[Martin Jules]

How can I set up the Zone tool to match the format shown below and automatically display or calculate the room’s X and Y dimensions (Length × Width)?

Operating system used: Windows

[Barry Kelly]

@Martin Jules ,

I have merged you post into this thread.

Read the previous posts and you will see it has been discussed many times before.

The issue you will have is zones can be any shape and do not have a length and width.

I am sure there are many other posts as well.

I even attached an object here similar to the one I use to display room sizes.

Barry.

[Mathias Jonathan]

We are using an object like Barry's here, coupled with a python script using Tapir that place it, rotate it and scale it accordingly on top of each zone. It works well but we have to delete/launch the script again if there are too many modifications.

[Cosminn]

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Hi Gabor,

Yes, this can be done using Zones.

I developed a Zone Geometry Indicator that reads the actual Zone polygon and automatically displays the length of every edge, regardless of how many sides the Zone has. It also follows irregular and reflex geometry and updates together with the Zone.

The workflow uses Archicad’s free Accessories Add-On, so the geometry is taken directly from the associated Zone rather than recreated manually.

You can see the tool here:
https://www.occular.eu/product-page/zone-geometry-indicator

The edge indexing you described, such as F1.01, F1.02, etc., and using those values later in a report would be an additional layer on top of this workflow, but the Zone geometry and individual edge lengths are already available automatically.

Best,
Daniel