calculating square footage.

Use mtext, in the text box, right click and select "Add Field"

In the Field category box select "Objects"

Under Object types, click on the icon

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The Fields box will go away for a moment to allow you to select an object. once you select an object such as a closed polly line your fields box will pop back up with more data in it that proteins to your selection.

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You will probably want to adjust the Units to match the rest of your drawings. Now when ever you change the room configurations just type "RE"at the command line to regen your drawing.

I have used this proses for some preliminary floor plans and have found it to be very useful.

Hello, is there a way to compile the total SF for all the areas?

Thanks

I want to link each space in the floor plan to an Excel spreadsheet. Each space will need to have an identifier – e.g. room number – in its properties and in its corresponding record on the spreadsheet. I’m dealing with a lot of rooms, so I’d rather not have to number each space in manually.

All of the rooms on the floor plan in the dwg file are polylined and all of the polylines are on the same layer of the dwg file. This layer contains nothing but the polylines. I also have another layer that has room numbers for each polylined room. The only thing on this layer are the room numbers as mtext objects.

The mtext objects aren’t linked to their respective polylines, after I run DATAEXTRACTION

Is there a way to associate a room number with each polyline in AutoCad?

Can I store the room number in AutoCad as xdata associated with each polyline and somehow have it recognize it as a property of each space?

Is there any way to create a custom property for polylines in AutoCad that the room number can be stored in?

I'm using AutoCAD 2015.

Thanks in advance