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How to measure area of square footage in CAD?

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jgarciacorpus69
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How to measure area of square footage in CAD?

Does anyone know how to measure the square footage or where to click for this one? I know that in Revit you can simply measure the room square footage.

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Hi,

In AutoCAD .. AREA command will serve your issue . also by MEASURE (Command)

Imad Habash

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pendean
in reply to: jgarciacorpus69

@jgarciacorpus69 or... in AutoCADARCHITECTURE (the 'revit' equivalent that gets and understands rooms etc) instead of plain AutoCAD (which is just generic drafting for the masses but no one specific) you'd use built-in tools like https://www.google.com/search?q=autocad+architecture+room+area

So... are you really stuck using plain AutoCAD? ARCH version is free for all active subscribers, but you have to draw with those intelligent tools and object types to reap the benefits of those tools (like room spaces etc.).
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RobDraw
in reply to: jgarciacorpus69

Draw a polyline. Area is a property of the polyline.


Rob

Drafting is a breeze and Revit doesn't always work the way you think it should.
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Kevin.Spear
in reply to: RobDraw

Depends on flavor of autocad. If in vanilla autocad, make sure you're length units are set to architectural and insert units to inches (UNITS command). Areas will be reported in sq in & sq ft.
Thanks
Kevin

Kevin Spear, PE
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Goto the Autodesk App Store and download my free AOL app to help you with labeling closed boundary object areas:

Area Object Link (AOL) | AutoCAD | Autodesk App Store


Paul Li
IT Specialist
@The Office
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jgarciacorpus69
in reply to: pendean

The type of Autocad that I am using is the Education version which has most of every tool. 

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