Calculating parking-stripes paint area

[Kimtaurus]

For an office building we're designing, we need to measure the needed paint for the parking stripes and arrows.

I know several methods for doing this, but I was wondering how everyone else is doing this.

Method 1: split face + paint tool

Method 2: 3D arrow and stripe component of which we measure the top surface area.

Method 3: filled regions

[chrisplyler]

I guess it's always been easier for me to just calculate linear feet in my head than attempt anything like that.

If you make them all with Parking families...couldn't you add a shared parameter as a type parameter? Manually enter the paint area for each family and type once. Then at least you could get dynamic totals, right? Maybe add one for paint color also, then group totals by color?

[Anonymous]

I've never had the need for paint calculation but you could possibly achieve a pretty accurate measurement by using sub regions on a topo surface. You can assign the paint a material if you need to see it stand out on the topo. When you select the subregion it will give you a square footage measurement. This will at least handle the curvature of the topography if it's not flat.  Not sure if this is the type of measurement you'd need but it may work well.

I used to use this technique on parking lots of our projects and it typically worked great, then it exported out to Lumion or Sketchup perfectly so you could assign materials to the stripes easily. You will occasionally see some weirdness with the geometry though so I tried to unite as many stripes into a single "stripe" when possible.