Measure Combined Volume

Hi,

I have a number of simple shapes, generally boxes of differing sizes. Is there a way to measure the volume of more than one element at a time? I.e. I'd like to click on one element then hold the control button and click another element [+n] and for microstation to tell me what the area of both elements [or +n elements] combined are.

Is there a way to do this already? The nearest I can get is to physically merge all the shapes together then calculate the volume, but it would be less time consuming if I didn't have to merge the elements first.

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  • Unknown said:

    That is awesome - I never even considered selecting the elements first then applying the measure tool...

    But inst  that how mst is designed to work most of the time ..( we might have added reverse  feature process a while back  to make it acad user friendly)

    pick the element, pic the tool,  follow the  prompts

    hasnt Inga has said this 100's times...?

    or am I just running in autopilot when I use mstn...

    FYI Measure area works on 2d areas that way  too, BTW  nice free tool  "  Area tool" mdl  also does adding , subtracting and labelling areas too works on true closed shapes very hand with subdivisions and or property lots...

     

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