FACEAREA("material") giving incorrect measurements

[ErikaKR]

Hi,
I am new to using dynamic components, so there may be something obvious I am doing wrong,...?

I am trying to produce a schedule of areas using dynamic components with a custom attribute area =FACEAREA("materialname")/2. However the results for the areas seem incorrect ( way out!). I am checking against the entity info results and with manual dimensions on the simpler rectangular areas.

Does anybody have any ideas what I may be doing wrong? My drawing is set with millimetres as the units. Could it be a unit conversion issue? Although I have tried multiplying by 25.4 and that isn't giving me a correct answer either.

Any ideas for things to check would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[TIG]

As far as I know DCs can be set up in either inches [Sketchup's default] or cm.
I expect the area returned is in square inches ?
If so, to turn that into sq mm you'll need to multiply it by 25.4*25.4 [it's 'square' no 'linear'...
Or, if the DC is returning the area in sq cm, then try using *100 to change the sq cm into sq mm...

[ErikaKR]

Thank you TIG!

It was my maths that was failing me. I failed to square. Though, I don't see why if Sketchup can give areas in the drawing set units (metric) in text and in entity info, it can't do it with facearea...?

Thanks again.

[TIG]

DCs have no awareness of the Model Units, so you have to force it into using what units you want.
DCs always default to inches unless told otherwise...