lhwalker Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 Is there a way to calculate living areas in the program? My client needs me to calculate living areas over brick and living areas over framing... Is there a way to do this other than just tracing a cad line or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhwalker Posted January 18, 2023 Author Share Posted January 18, 2023 over brick would just be the gross living area as usual on a normal house with 2x4 brick walls over framing would be the are limited to the outside of the studs... apparently his framer only charges him for the over framing area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 You have control over how living area is calculated. You can have it go to the outside of wall surfaces or the main layer (framing) in your general plan defaults. You can also change which rooms are included in the room dialog. You can use the "make living area polyline" tool to generate a poly showing the area you want and turn on the label showing the area. See if this support article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00424/changing-how-square-footage-is-calculated.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhwalker Posted January 18, 2023 Author Share Posted January 18, 2023 Thank you for your response, I need to expand my question, If I am trying to generat a area schedule showing the living area, garage area, porch, patio how do I separate out these areas? I don't see a way to to make a polyline that would only select the garage or patio area. This seams like a simple task to do but I am struggling with it in this program, I must admit I am converting from Softplan to this program... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlesVolz Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 3 hours ago, solver said: You can select the Exterior Room, use the Make Living Area Polyline tool (Edit toolbar) to create a polyline automatically. Select garage and do the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtldesigns Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 5 hours ago, lhwalker said: schedule showing the living area, garage area, porch, patio how do I separate out these areas? Am I missing something here? Wouldn't a room schedule do this? You can set to standard, or interior sq. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 You can also put polylines into a schedule. So you could generate polylines for the rooms you want to show and generate a schedule that shows the areas. You can even combine the polylines as needed to just show garage space, patio space, and living areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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