Is there an easy way to calculate area of an entire floor, only the rooms and not the walls?

[mathildeD2MY7]

Like the title says... is there an easy way to calculate the area of an entire floor without using a calculator? I have drawn up a floor plan and one of many things the client is asking for is a floor plan overview as to what type of floor each room has, to give to the cleaning crew. So that means I only need to know the area of each room, not including the interior or exterior walls. It's a big building so it would be quite time consuming using the area tool with setting up boundries etc. So yeah... I know it's probably a very easy answer to this, but I'm new to working with schedules and area plans and all that so I'm asking 🙂

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@mathildeD2MY7 

If you are done placing the walls, doors, separators, floor and all bounding elements...etc,

1. Go to Architecture tab >> Rooms & Areas
   • place rooms
   • rename if needed
   • Assign a color scheme (optional)
2. Once all rooms are placed,
   • Go to the View tab >> Create >> Schedules >> Quantity Schedule
   • Create a room schedule (scroll down and select room category from the list)
   • Add the fields (Name, Number, Area ...etc)
   • Under formatting, format Area to calculate totals
   • Under Sorting check the box for Grand Total (and pick a format)

Create Room Schedule

Place Rooms

[mathildeD2MY7]

Thank you! Not all rooms are to be included in the total, but it's much easier to exclude the few instead of calculating the many.

[RDAOU]

You should be easily able to filter the ones you do not need out from the schedule.

[mathildeD2MY7]

Yeah, I realized after replying, lol. Thank you 🙂