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measuring area quick and easy

Anonymous
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Hi,

Is there any way to measure area quick and easy? There is the measure tool that will help me with distances, but how about areas? I don't want to check coordinates and count, and I'd rather not use zones either.

I'm (obviously I guess) an absolute beginner, so please excuse me for posting really really basic questions.

(I think this is a working in ArchiCAD/drafting kind of question, but please refer me to another forum if I'm in the wrong place. I'll probably have a lot more questions like this one so you might get annoyed if i keep posting them where they don't belong. )
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Anonymous
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Dwight wrote:
Where sloppy model construction eventually comes around to strike you in the posterior.
Stress Co_
Advisor
Lisa wrote:
...but since I'm a really lazy person I still wonder... is there anyway to do it without creating an object? I'd just like to be able to click the four or six or eleven corners of a room or a slab or whatever and find out how big it is. (Like with the inquiry-tool in autocad. Sorry for bringing that up, hope i don't offend any of you har d core ArchiCad people )
If you want the area of a slab.... just select the slab and open the "Element Information" tool.

That's: Window>> Palettes>> Element Information
Marc Corney, Architect
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Anonymous
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ooh, element information, I like it! I was supposing there would be something like that but I hadn't found it yet. Thanks!

Seems like it's a good idea to ask imprecise questions, because I get so many different good advice!
Aussie John
Newcomer
Matthew wrote:
Dwight wrote:
...boomeranging (quick check to see if you are Australian) yourself into the BIM process...
New definition?

BIM = Boomerang In Motion
Strewth!!
Cheers John
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