Wall Square Footage

[trashcan]

I have an oddly shaped room with curved walls in some places and I need to calculate the square footage of all the walls in this room. You would need this information to figure out how much paint you need, for example. Any ideas? 

[bcd]

Directly from the walls might be the most honest,

 

A quicker way:

Drop a Polygon on the floor

Extrude to full height

AEC>Machine Design>3d Properties.

(Dont forget the subtract the floor & ceiling from the Surface Area)

[Pat Stanford]

Create a worksheet.

 

Make a database row with a criteria of Type is Wall and Type is Round Wall.

 

Enter a formula of =WallArea_Net. This will give you the area of one side of each wall less any opening like Door and Windows.

 

The database header row will show the total area.  If you want to hide the database header, SUMmarize the values on a different column (even a blank column) and then check the Sum Values box in the column with the Area.

 

 

[bcd]

Ah well - if the room has windows ...

[bcd]

If you don't know worksheets then it's really good to learn them

But if it's just a once off you can use the Extract Tool to Extract Nurbs Surfaces on the faces of the Walls and manually add up the area given by the 3d Properties command.

[trashcan]

@bcd the extract surface --> 3D properties thing did the trick. 

 

I'd love to learn how to do the worksheets, but I'm afraid that I have more questions than answers. 

 

Ideally, the worksheet would tally up all the square footage of all the interior walls (not just the curved walls). 

 

Also, I am using an unstyled wall - how does the worksheet determine the interior vs exterior? 

[Pat Stanford]

The Left side is considered the outside, so alway draw clockwise.  ;-)

[bcd]

In the northern hemisphere 😉

[Pat Stanford]

I don't remember the clock's going backwards when I was in Peru.  ;-)