Hello Everyone.I've just been doing an area schedule and required gross areas. Now to do this I was hoping that I could place a piece of text with a field (area selected) in it and select multiple shapes, that would give me a cumulative area of the shapes. However, fields only work, from what I know, on one object. Is there an intelligent way to make the field link to several objects and give a total area of the objects?I know of the cheating way to do this where one joins all the shapes via very small linkages that don't affect the overall area, but this is unclean and time consuming. There must be a better way!Ben
Unknown said:...(you cannot add or delete vertext unless you drop the grouped hole).
Since CE (2015) that you can insert and delete vertex from group holes (only deeper control for arc is still missing).
Regards
José
another quick way is to create a regular polygon like a square to enclose all the shapes ., measure this by element or you know already as you drew it, copy answer to excel or paper,
Then use the measure area tool by flood with locate internal shapes and remeasure this now gives the area less the internal shapes, the difference of this value and the earlier value is the total of the internal shapes..., I prefer selection sets measure area of selection , even by level names.. but this was a quick way when you have hundreds of little pieces or lots of shapes in a big design like cadastral property shapes...
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What I always do is to have a level on my dgnlib only for areas and put this elements on construction class. With named groups and a click I get pretty quickly with what I need. If needed I place text with field to these elements and they are always linked. But only element by element, not more than one. Regards