AutoCAD LT Macro Extension

[Anonymous]

Hi, I work for an Urban Planning/urban design company, and we use Autocad LT daily for the design of new suburbs in growth areas.

We usually start with a site area, which we then design a community for. Once that is done, we need to calculate how many hectares of residential, open space, roads, community facilities, activity centers we have in that area. We have each use separated out onto a different layer.

At the moment we are using the area tool to calculate the various closed polygons on each layer before entering them into an excel spreadsheet to create what we call a 'land-budget'.

Is there a more efficient way, perhaps using a macro extension, which can calculate the areas of the polygons on each layer, then exports those numbers to excel so we have a ‘live’ land-budget, which represents the different uses for that site?

I have no idea if this is possible. Any other more effieicnt sugegstions are welcome.

Cheers. 

Nate

[steven-g]

Using attributed blocks, could possibly help, you can put various attributes in there to show details for each plot such as area, layer, and plot number, you can then use the attext command to extract the data out to a csv file and a few simple formulas in excel to add all areas on the same layer. It all depends on how much work you want to do, and how much work you think it will save. But if all your plots are rectangular as shown in the image then it would be a very simple task.