That would be useful for us in early stages before we have a SketchUp model in progress.

I don’t think so, you can do it on sketchup easily, even on an early stage just create an schematic plane and skp will show you the area if you send the model to layout the label tool will show the area by default. You don’t need to draw on layout and get the measures there, that’s not Layout’s purp…

[image] francisquitof: I don’t think so, you can do it on sketchup easily Create a material for each area category you need and paint your floors (or copies of them) with those. Right-clicking each material in the In Model materials browser and selecting Area from the context menu gives you t…

I agree with LO area tags request. Having areas being retrieved from model is not that simple. Area of the room isn’t always the floor area, as you might have different floors, or textures on the floor, you might have drawn planks in your model, or have a bathtub that excludes part of the floor. I…

This is a nice idea. I could see my self using this tip but it doesn’t really address my feature request

I hear you but its basically a question of preference. As I said, there are times that having basic calculations available from LO would be beneficial. (The root of my problem is that there is someone in our office who does a lot of preliminary/prospecting type work but doesn’t have the skills to w…

Ok Noted ! :slight_smile: I have also had to manage staff like that… I am sure you know your processes well… just personally I hate seeing data dead ends…

Actually I think LO would greatly benefit from an Entity Tray (eg Property) that summaries any selected entity in LO… be it a SU or LO entity…

Which SU entity would you pick to retrieve areas from?

Well actually… although I mentioned that in my initial response I edited that out as you can already extract and area from an surface in Layout with the label tool… I thought that was limited only to a component but can use the label tool to select a single surface in a group or primitive entity. A…

I use the Autotext tool in LO to tag areas. However, this implies having the right face in Sketchup to Tag. That face is never automatic in the model as it usually never exists. What I endup doing is creating area faces that exist only for areas. Honestly, these are cumbersome to create and maintain…

Area calculations based on scaled drawings in LO

LayOut Feature Requests

janvin June 26, 2023, 3:44pm 20

brought up the notion of an Entity Tray a couple of years (see my post below) - it’ll be wishful thinking that they implement this in LO and if they do, it’ll be so far down the road unfortunately.

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Area calculations based on scaled drawings in LO

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