I need to figure square area in inches

danray35 · 21 Jan 2011, 01:36

Is there a plugin that will figure out square inches

Chris Fullmer · 21 Jan 2011, 01:56

SketchUp can find square feet automatically for you. Are you set to use the metric system by default? Or are you already in the Imperial system? If you are on metric, switch the model units to Architecural inches. Then when you select a face, open the Entity Info window and it will show the square feet. Multiply that number 144 to get square inches.

Or if that is too difficult for your specific task, it is not too hard to write a quick snippet of code that would place a text label on the face that displays the square inches of that face.

Chris

PS - when trying to get the area of a face, you can have only the face select - no edges. So be care ful when you selct the face (or faces) that you have no edges selected.

vidy · 21 Jan 2011, 03:36

@chris fullmer said:

PS - when trying to get the area of a face, you can have only the face select - no edges. So be care ful when you selct the face (or faces) that you have no edges selected.

off course after selecting the face you need to open window > entity info
and with this plugin http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=11745 , you can easily jump to other unit format to find out your measure.. but currently it has problem on showing the icon on SU v.7 and above.. maybe somebody can help this issue..

regards,

gilles · 21 Jan 2011, 08:14

hello,
open "model infos" check units, format: decimal - inches.

note that when "text tool" is selected it gives you area if you click on a face.