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jarviss
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Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject:
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hello,
is there a way to make autocad figure the area of an enclosed pline by the "outermost" side of the enclosed pline?
what i mean is...we have a building (say a 200' x 200' box)
and in our site plan, we want to "beef up" the line weight for this outline. so we give the pline a width of 10'
on our plan..the pline is centered on the wall..so 5' is "outside" of the building and 5' is "Inside" of the building.
when we take the area..it'll be a correct 40,000 square feet.
::::HOWEVER::::
we want the 10' wide pline to be all "inside" the building.. so that any canopies are clealy shown on the site plan. (a 4' canopy would be engulfed by the 5' extra width of the pline)
? so..if we just offset the exterior pline 5' (to the inside) then all the pline is insidet he building..b.ut our area is now...smaller
see what i'm getting at?
so im not sure if theres a command or something to tell autocad to take the area, based on the outermost side of a pline with width?
thanks
-G
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Paul Turvill
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Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject:
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I guess if I had that requirement, I'd use *two* polylines: one at 0 width
at the actual perimeter of the structure, and a 10' wide one, offset 5' to
the inside. Then I'd ignore the latter one use the former one to get the
area.
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"jarviss" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
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| Quote: | hello,
is there a way to make autocad figure the area of an enclosed pline by the
"outermost" side of the enclosed pline? |
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jarviss
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Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject:
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i agree.
i was just hoping there might be some "hidden" setting that only like 4 or 5 of you autocad experts new about.
;)
anywhoo...i'll do that, but was concerned about some other kid opening this thing up later and getting the wrong area calc.
thanks
-G
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OLD-CADaver
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Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject:
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<<was concerned about some other kid opening this thing up later and getting the wrong area calc. >>
Which is a very good reason to avoid this kind of "work-around". Use solid hatching instead. |
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Paul Caruthers
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject:
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could you use a mline instead? you can solid hatch the area between the
lines. it will not however give you the area like a closed polyline....a
quick boundry or the area command would .......just a thought.
Paul Caruthers
"jarviss" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
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| Quote: | hello,
is there a way to make autocad figure the area of an enclosed pline by the
"outermost" side of the enclosed pline?
what i mean is...we have a building (say a 200' x 200' box)
and in our site plan, we want to "beef up" the line weight for this
outline. so we give the pline a width of 10'
on our plan..the pline is centered on the wall..so 5' is "outside" of the
building and 5' is "Inside" of the building.
when we take the area..it'll be a correct 40,000 square feet.
::::HOWEVER::::
we want the 10' wide pline to be all "inside" the building.. so that any
canopies are clealy shown on the site plan. (a 4' canopy would be engulfed
by the 5' extra width of the pline)
? so..if we just offset the exterior pline 5' (to the inside) then all the
pline is insidet he building..b.ut our area is now...smaller
see what i'm getting at?
so im not sure if theres a command or something to tell autocad to take
the area, based on the outermost side of a pline with width?
thanks
-G |
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