Drawing from areas

[beccals]

Can someone please tell me how to draw from areas? I have a list of areas and need to construct a drawing from them - completely stuck!

[ReMark]

How to draw from areas? Perhaps you could supply us with an example. What are you actually drawing, a piece of property? Are we talking distances and bearings?

[beccals]

The area in sqaure metres of a floor plan. I have a different size for each room and have to draw each individually. For example there is a storage room at 240sqm. I can draw rooms from scratch but have no idea to draw them around an area. Thanks.

[Hedgehog]

If they are all rooms in one building then you should draw it as your model at 1:1 as they are as a building... then you can view them in paperspace viewports individually.

[Tiger]

uhm....you don't have any other measurements than the areas? There are many different shapes that can be the same area...

I would go about this geometrical: Assume that all rooms are rectangular, first decide how long one side is going to be - divide the square meters with that length to get the other side - and so on...

[Alan Cullen]

Are you talking about having a fixed area (sq.ft.) and want to draw a rectangle around that area? If so you need at least one side dimension. Then use maths to work out the other side dimension.

[beccals]

Thanks everyone thats all very helpful. Should be ok now!

[ReMark]

Drawing a room layout based solely upon its area. Well at least you'll have plenty of options for sizes. How many ways could one draw a room that had an area of 240 square meters?

[SLW210]

And if there were to be more than 4 walls......