I’ve been playing around a few days (newbie) and watched a fair amount of tutorials. I’m wanting to layout a new floor plan from scratch, and would like to work out the basic rooms prior to going 3d. Using rectangles and stretching works well, but is there a square footage label that is dynamic. I s…

Sounds like Tig’s Area text tag would work for you. SketchUp Plugins | PluginStore | SketchUcation SketchUp Plugin and Extension Store by SketchUcation provides free downloads of hundreds of SketchUp extensions and plugins

If the “Info” docker is visible, then a surface’s area will be shown (assuming it’s selected). If you select a line to stretch it then the info panel will show that line’s length - you just need to click on the surface for it to update.

I think I’m following that part. Was hoping the pushpin text label would update like the dimensions.

Thanks - ‘box’, what I was looking for.

Floor plan layout using rectangles with dynamic area label

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Sounds like Tig’s Area text tag would work for you.

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Floor plan layout using rectangles with dynamic area label

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