Note or label in acres

glenn

I had originally posted in general SU area, might have better luck here????
Hello,
Does anyone know of a way to display “acres” as a system measured note or label?
Currently, selecting a face will result in a note/label with square feet. I’d like SU to make the note in acres instead of having to do the math myself.
Thank you,
Glenn
SU 7.1pro
XPsp3

Chris Fullmer

Hmm, I've written a snippet of code that I run at work that takes a selection of faces and determines the acres and adds a note to the model pointing to the center of the faces and displays in acres.

I'll try to rememeber to upload here when I get back to workin tomorrow (about 14 hours from now).

Chris

glenn

Thanks Chris,
That will be great!!!
Glenn

TIG

This scant 'one-liner' does it - select some face[s] and paste it into the Ruby Console, a piece of text showing the area to 3dp is placed at each face's center - but has no undo, command, menu etc etc...

m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.each{|e|m.active_entities.add_text((((e.area*0.000159423).to_i)/1000.0).to_f.to_s+"acres",(e.bounds.center),[10,10,10])if e.class==Sketchup;;Face}

glenn

Thank you Tig, works like a charm !!!!!
Glenn