Calculate painting area

dieter10

Hey,

Is there a quick way or plugin to calculate the surface area from an object (for ex. a railing). It should be very usefull for me to know how many hours/paint we need for a job.

TECHDAVE02

If made up of components a simple 1.select all surfaces of components
2.then X by the number of each component
3.total it up and Bobs your uncle total area.

sdmitch

@dieter10 said:

Hey,

Is there a quick way or plugin to calculate the surface area from an object (for ex. a railing). It should be very usefull for me to know how many hours/paint we need for a job.

This should do it.

Usage: Plugins>SDM Tools>Face Tool>Area of Faces

Area of Faces.rb

dieter10

@sdmitch said:

@dieter10 said:

Hey,

Is there a quick way or plugin to calculate the surface area from an object (for ex. a railing). It should be very usefull for me to know how many hours/paint we need for a job.

This should do it.

Usage: Plugins>SDM Tools>Face Tool>Area of Faces

Thanks for your answer. I tried out an came to the conclusion that it takes all the "white" (default) sides of a face. But the problem is that all off my construction drawings are tubes, and they have an inner side that does not need to be painted. So what i did: use the plugin to calculate the area, divide it by 2. And mulitply it by *1,2. And thats quite near to the reality. Is there anyone with a better solution ?

panixia

i would strongly reccomend to give a look at fredo tools plugin.. it has a couple of tools to deal with area labels/material/reporting/flipping/painting and other useful stuff. the most of theese tools also can operate on group and subgroups without having to open them for editing..

http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=FredoTools

you also need this additional library to have it working properly

http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=LibFredo6

hope this can help

area labels.jpg

sdmitch

If the tubes happen to be components, edit any instance and remove all surfaces not to be painted. Or if the surfaces to be painted have a unique texture applied, then that could be used in the search to select only those faces.