Get Square Footage for Different Areas of house

[Ringos]

I have a box in my plans that I would like to populate with square footage for the different areas listed. It would seem that this is common and there would be a tool that made this effortless.

Yet, I think I need to figure out custom Macros?

 

If anyone has a great way of doing this with easy automation I would enjoy learning it. I will even pay someone to jump online and help me get this working.

[joey_martin]

Custom schedule aimed a square footage polylines. 

[Ringos]

OK. How would one accomplish this? Can I pay for help?

[SHCanada2]

custom schedules, using object information panel and macros is another way. There is a thread on it.

 

Both alaskan son and rene rabbit have a polished version for sale I believe

[DBCooper]

If all you need is a very basic one, all you need to do is create some polylines and mark them as include in schedule.  Then create a custom schedule that includes polylines and has the area column and the totals row.  You could create two of them, one to show living areas and the other to show the non-living areas.  

 

[Gawdzira]

Here is an example

area schedule table example.plan

[Doug_N]

4 hours ago, Gawdzira said:

Here is an example

area schedule table example.plan 4.99 MB · 3 downloads

Hi Alan,

 

Thought I would take a stab at extending the schedule a bit, but the metric area column is not totaling.  Any thoughts? 

 

dn-areascheduletableexample.plan

[QualicoreHomes]

If you select the "calculate total" for Area (M) then it does. 

[Ringos]

Thanks. Helpful.

I am guessing one would draw the polyline around the area they want or "make room polyline" Drag that off to the side of the drawing, or on a separate layer. Include in schedule, and do that for each area they want included. At the end a person would have a bunch of polyline shapes like you have each drawn from the plan and dragged off to the side or on a separate layer that can be turned on and off?

 

Should I have that formula %area.to_sq_m.round(2)% in macros someplace or is that information known?

[Ringos]

I saw in one example the %area.to_sq_m.round(2)% formula was in the polyline custom object fields. In the other one I did not see a physical formula anywhere. 

[GeneDavis]

What would be the method used when a combined area is the way one would want the area reported in a schedule?

 

Example would be front porch at 100 s.f. and rear porch at 400 s.f., with schedule reporting "porches" at 500 s.f.

 

One big beautiful macro?  Help out a guy who is macro illiterate.

[SHCanada2]

if you were permitted to display only living area, porches and garage, it would be simpler than delineating every single porch

 

[Ringos]

I am able to display only living area, porches and garage. Just trying to figure out what I should provide at a minimum.

[SHCanada2]

19 minutes ago, Ringos said:

Just trying to figure out what I should provide at a minimum.

Wouldn't this be determined by your jurisdiction?

 

I do not have to delineate porches and garages here.

As such I only have 1st floor, 2nd floor, basement living area, and sometimes parcel coverage on my plans

[Doug_N]

On 9/18/2025 at 8:07 AM, QualicoreHomes said:

If you select the "calculate total" for Area (M) then it does. 

I can't tell you how long I looked at that DBX when working on this but it was greyed out.  Of course it was, I had to highlight the macro to enable it!  (smacks forehead)

Thanks Gerard!!

[SHCanada2]

attached is not quite how you have it, but it is a way without macros. For the living area for the floors, pick which rooms are needed to be included in your jurisdiction

Edited Sunday at 02:10 AM by SHCanada2