Lisp routine for sum area of hatches needed - how to

[Anonymous]

Hi. I want to be able to export the sum areas of different hatches to show the total floor areas of different uses. Is there a good lisp routine for this or any other way of doing this efficiently? I am a complete beginner when it comes to this so please reply with an easy to understand answer. Appreciate it.

[David_W_Koch]

Are you using AutoCAD Architecture, or are you an architect using plain AutoCAD?

If the former, you may want to consider scheduling your Hatches.  You may be able to group the various hatch types together and then have the schedule show a subtotal for the area of each group.  You may also want to consider using Space objects instead of Hatches.

[Anonymous]

I am using plain AutoCAD. Can I still schedule the hatches? If not, I have found a few useful lisp routines so I could use those. Thanks,

Carl

[David_W_Koch]

The Schedule Feature is part of AutoCAD Architecture, not plain AutoCAD.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

There's MeteorSpec plug-in that calculates the summarized areas of polylines. 

Look at Autodesk Exchange apps. https://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3ameteorspectrial_...