Square footage label for ALL floors

[hyldahldesign]

I'm finding it incredibly confusing and surprising that I can't create some kind of label or text box in my plan that will add up all of the living area from all floors of my project and dynamically display it for me. I've tried so many macro tutorials, chatGPT methods, and workarounds and I can't get anything to work. Where I'm often designing with tight square footage boundaries I need to stay within, it would be tremendously helpful to have a label like this that can track the changes I'm making and give me updated square footage numbers. Is this just not possible? Am I stuck forever doing this manually on my calculator as I switch from floor to floor?

 

I'm working on Chief Architect Premiere X17. Any tips would be appreciated!

[Rpadge]

You can draw polylines for your areas and then use a custom schedule that adds up the areas, that will give you a lot of control over what is calculated, (heated vs. non-heated, patios, decks, etc.) I agree that it seems like it should easier to automatically calculate living spaces.

 

[SHCanada2]

you can use schedules to sum up the room areas and it is dynamic

 

If you want to exclude certain types of rooms, then you need to add a new item in the object information panel, and add in a macro to include or exclude the room.

 

There is at least one post on the topic from last year or maybe the year before

 

AlaskanSon and Renerabbit both have it predone and sell it, I beleive, if you wanted to contact one of them to purchase

Edited 2 hours ago by SHCanada2