Archicad currently allows users to model planning zones (as Zones or Fills) and overlay them on property parcels (e.g., cadastral maps), but it lacks a tool to extract quantitative data about how these areas intersect.
In urban planning workflows, property parcels often have different land-use zones crossing their boundaries (e.g., part of a parcel falls in a residential zone, another part in a green/public zone). Currently, there is no automated way to calculate how much of each property area belongs to each planning zone.
This feature would allow selecting two sets of areas (Zones or Fills) and automatically extract:
- The overlapping area between each parcel and each planning zone
- The percentage of a parcel that falls into each zone
- A tabular report summarizing the results for multiple parcels
Example use case:
In an urban zoning study, I overlay the regulatory zoning map (land-use rules) with the cadastral parcels of ownership. Since their shapes are different and overlapping, I need to know exactly how much of each property lies in each zone. A built-in intersection calculation would immediately provide these data, without external GIS tools or manual operations.
Why this is useful:
- Essential for urban planning and land-use analysis
- Automates calculations for property-zone overlaps
- Helps in compliance checks and urban planning reports
- Avoids exporting data to external GIS or CAD software for intersection analysis
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