Zones don't show SF correctly.

[Anonymous]

What am I missing? In AC9(osx) the sf area of zones doesn't show correctly in the zone dialog. It does appear correctly in the update zones dialog and sometimes in the zone stamp, but not always. I have check the dialogs and pref. , but can't find any cause for this..... Anyone experience this?

[Anonymous]

Just wanted to say your not alone. I have never used zones in Archicad because the SF never display properly. It usually just says 0.0 sf on the plan, but will have the correct size in the zone settings. For area calculations I just use fills. It would be nice to have a use for the zone tool though

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I am just starting to use the Zones, if this true that are not usable do to BUGs in the SF calculations and display why it was not addressed in AC9 or any discussion on it?
Thanks,
Joseph Harouni

[Rakela Raul]

no problems w zone tool

[Anonymous]

Rakela wrote:
no problems w zone tool

Thank You for the assurance, I hope someone with more understanding of the zones can help our other two good users.
Thanks,
Joseph

[Anonymous]

This is what I'm talking about. Note: the zone stamp says 100sf, the Update Zone dialog says 100sf, but the zone tooll dialog shows 9.29sf..... I don't get it.

[Rakela Raul]

gross area = includes walls
net area = excludes all or part of walls
does it help joseph? im just learning archicad

[Anonymous]

The area value shown in the dialog (9.29) is the number of square meters in 100sf. It looks like a bug.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Matthew....... That sounds like the best answer yet. I figured it was something like that. It's nice to know I'm not crazy. Well...... at least as it relates to zones in Archicad.

Thanks all

[Rakela Raul]

in the last 2 weeks i have done alot of zone area calculations and after this i went back to see if my calcs are all wrong, i did a few by hand and fortunately they are good...could it be something related to preferences/zones or calculation units?

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