Square footage

[Tom Krowka]

I have a Client that wants every space in the project named. Then he wants to have a square footage calc. of each space, no matter what it is or what it is used for.

What would be the easiest way to accomplish this? Zone on the drawing, then generate a schedule from the zone?

[Anonymous]

Tom wrote:
I have a Client that wants every space in the project named. Then he wants to have a square footage calc. of each space, no matter what it is or what it is used for.

What would be the easiest way to accomplish this? Zone on the drawing, then generate a schedule from the zone?

Zones are definitely the way you want to go. You're probably going to need zones in the project anyway to generate door/wdw schedules etc....so why not also use them to list the spaces?

Zones are a powerful organizing tool:
-Your project is going to need roomnames so use the zone for this.
-Zones categories can be used to help organize how they are listed.
-Zones also can be controlled via display options to show or hide their visibillty, names etc.
-Keep in mind that as your design develops you can update the zones and the information you choose to schedule from the zones will update as well.

[Dwight]

Reviewing the zone tool, I can see that the saw-off between the two tools is so rudimentary that I regret ever suggesting fills.

[Aussie John]

IMHO Use zone stamps as you can then create a door schedule which knows which zone it is in.

[Anonymous]

Dwight Atkinson wrote:

"call me a luddite:

Even though area/text/fills seem cheap and nasty compared to the sophistication and ease of use presented to us by the usual calculation menu options, you can see what you are doing and nothng is cryptic. It is hard to get into trouble with fills for floor area stuff."

i can't agree more with this statement!

donald mac donald

[Dwight]

They call me the luddite, I keep blowin' off my mouth
Well now, they call me the luddite, I keep blowin' off my mouth
I ain't got me no definitive answers, I don't carry me no correct grammar.

/ A - - - / D - A - / E D A - /

Been a change in the rendering engine, ain't no change in me.
Well, there's a change in the material definitions, ain't no change in me
And I ain't hidin' from nobody, down here in the basement in my underwear.

Well, I got that green light, baby, R,0, G,255, B,0,
I got that green light, baby, R,0, G,255, B,0.

etc.

[Aussie John]

dont know how anyone with a 30" monitor could be a luddite but there you go.

[Dwight]

Not that my 2, 21 inchers weren't greying out and shorting out and fuzzing out after only three years of 24 hour use - what cra.p. Sony:

Shame on you.

A guy with a 30" display isn't a luddite.
He is a slave to fashion.
Fashion, and accessories.

PS: It is the bees knees.

[Aussie John]

So Dwight whats the report on the 30" - all its cracked up to be?

[Dwight]

Bees Knees = Swell.

Easy install on the new grafix card - more fan noise.

Fills the field of view. Tricky with my eyes/glasses combo - still don't have the perfect height.

A second one would be like an Irish drunk, when faced with two wishes from a Leprechaun and gets a bottomless bottle of whiskey for his first wish, asks for second bottle for the other hand.

PC Rag said it is not as unformly bright from all directions as it could be and they are right, but from stage centre it is uniform, sharp and text is clear to 8 pt.

Used to the size now, but visitors are dumb-struck. And DVD is great. No more tanning bed for me.

Satisfied, for once.