Pick line in autocad

[Anonymous]

greeting all,

I have a big drawing and I want to make areas to calculate the area or calculate parameters

my ask is there anything like pick line like Revit in AutoCAD because I have a big plan with a lot of shapes and it takes a lot of time to make areas or

parameters

Thx for help guys

[chriscowgill7373]

if the object you are selecting is a polyline, when initiating the AREA command, you can choose the OBJECT option and select an object, if the object has an area property, it will give you the area.  Is this what you are referring to?

[Anonymous]

No Dear, 

I have multi lines separated and make shape when u want to make area for this shape u have to make polyline for all lines of this shape to calculate area

is there anything like pick line in Revit  to make it easy draw this shape 

Thx 

[chriscowgill7373]

can you post an example drawing?  There are several things out there that can be used, I'm just not fully grasping what data you are working with.

[Anonymous]

this my project with big landscape and many shapes 

[chriscowgill7373]

which version of AutoCAD are you opening (so I can make sure I am testing with tools that are available to you)  I see the drawing format is 2004, the farthest back I can go for software is 2015.  I dont remember what tools have been added in which years.

[Kent1Cooper]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking, either [and the posted drawing is missing Xrefs -- post just the underlying model drawing, since we don't need the border and title block and so on].  But if you mean to pick inside an open area and have a perimeter constructed around the edges of it, the BOUNDARY or BPOLY command will do that.  You have the choice to have it make a Polyline or a Region, if you have a reason to want one or the other -- with either, you can select it and read the area in the Properties palette.

[Anonymous]

this good command thx for this one +1 this will help me more,

and am asking when you use Revit,

when you insert AutoCAD drawing and make something like slab you have the option to make pick line

is there something like this in AutoCAD

Thx For kinds of you guys

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, the answer is no.  At least none that I know of.  However, you can set the osnap to endpoint when drawing the polylines to define the areas.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for helping me dears

with my best wishes

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:

... when you use Revit,

when you insert AutoCAD drawing and make something like slab you have the option to make pick line

is there something like this in AutoCAD

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I don't know Revit [yet], but if I understand correctly, I think there is something like that in some of the overlay  programs, such as in the Architectural one, I believe a "wall" object can have its defining basis location at either face, or at the center, or maybe at a particular [for example] stud line inside, etc.  Whether a floor slab can be an object of a similar type, I don't know.  Plain-old AutoCAD wouldn't know that a series of parallel Lines represents a wall, or a floor slab, so it can't treat them as a unit in the same way, but it can with limitations if you can use MultiLines  [MLINE command], though they are harder to work with in other respects.

[Anonymous]

Thx Dear