inserting area

Hello all

I am new to cad and have question: is there way of automaticaly inserting area(text) in to object?

I have handreds of residential lots to mark and writing that by hends is litle bit frustraiting.

I did search sits for info for past few days, but nothing clear.

Thanx for help

One way of doing this is with a LISP routine. There are a few available at the CAD Tips section of the cadalyst magazine website.

www.cadalyst.com

This is an example of the type of LISP program I was referring to:

http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/create-dimension/label-square-acreage

Just polyline the region and then use the list command select the pline and it will tell you the area. May have to press F2 button.

The OP wants the area to be displayed automatically.

Hi

Thanks for replying on my question.

As I mantion I am very new and lerning.

ReMark, you right that is about labeling. I did follow your advice and start learning about LISP. The file is for 2008 I,m using 2010. I cant make to work. Eather I,m doing wrong or is not wqorking with 2010.

My gess is me.

Thanks for great tips. I will read more and make its work.

Thanks

It should still work. What kind of problem are you having?

Maybe the LISP routine submitted by fixo in this thread will work.

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15237&highlight=area+label

quote;

 The OP wants the area to be displayed automatically.

Use FIELD command

FIELD

FIELD NAME=OBJECT

OBJECT TYPE>PICK POLYLINE

PROPERTY=AREA

Like this

You wil get the area text with mask.just explode it.

Thanks for replying Shibuboss.

I did use "bo" command and mesuring tool in 2010.

I am not shure if that was a lisp file that I inserted or that is implemented in the program.

Is there any tutorial on using lisp editor? the best will be one example step by step.I had some trouble to activate the inserted file.

Thank you ReMark for pointing to lisp.

Thanks