Hey what is up nation, in this session I'm going to teach you how to get the areas
of any spaces you've created in Sketchup.
I imported a model from the 3d warehouse here. It was modeled by Jonathan E.
There'll be a link in the description below. It's a really cool sort of modern
mobile home and I'm really sort of into that. There are three different areas
here. There's an entrance that comes into here, and then there's a bedroom, a
bathroom, and a living room. That's what I'm assuming these spaces are based on
not having more information. I guess this could have been the kitchen but it looks
like there's a TV in there. So I'm assuming that when you come in, this area
here, is the kitchen. What we're looking to do here is get the areas of these
four spaces. You can do that a few different ways. The first way, if you just
want to write these [areas] down is that you can actually look at the 'entity info'.
So if I select any face in Sketchup the 'entity info' will show an area here. So
you can see this has... this space is about 470 square feet. But... there is... when I look
at this... It's including all of this. If I just
want this kitchen area, I don't want to have that. So obviously you could draw
another shape here, but I'm going to show you a way that you can get the right
area without having to redraw. Just for reference you should know that there's a
section cut that I put through here. So this doesn't actually look like this
-with this black line. I'm just cutting through with a section. I did that
with 'tools'>'section plane'. If you press 'L' that'll give you the line
tool. Then you can close off this door here. Because I created a section
there's also another line that's connecting with this,
completing a face. So I'm just going to delete that face and then [right] click on this [line]
and hit 'hide'. Now you can see that when I select this I have a much smaller area
because it's just selecting that face. And... I'm not seeing that line in my model.
So it sort of gives you the best of the both worlds. The way that I've always
done my areas is... the space itself... if it's not a part of the space it doesn't count. So
you shouldn't be including any sort of doorways or steps
because they're not a feature of the space. So here, quickly, I'm just going to
close off all these doorways and then delete the faces that are inside and
then going to select them. I'm hitting 'ctrl' here as I select just so that I
just have the select and not deselect [option]. I'm going to 'hide' them. So you can see I
could go through here and get each area of each space and have the area up here (in the entity info).
You can also get areas by using the text tool or the leader tool. If you select
that tool and select on any face, by default it will show you the area of
that face. So you can see that match the entity info that we had before. Now
something that's important here is that when you click off of that it'll stop
your... the ability to add text directly into the leader... at least the formatting for it.
So if I type 'kitchen' here I can't 'return' that. If I select off it will show it... I
can't add a space or a 'return'... a paragraph essentially. You have to do
that the first time around. So if I select this and then come in here into
'kitchen' and then hit 'return' you can see that I get that stylization... or I get
that 'return'... the paragraph. So that's sort of the way that you have to do it the
first time. This isn't a dynamic area so if I do change this in any way... like if
I change this to here... I know that looks wonky but... it's not dynamically
linked to the area. So that's just something to be aware of as well. Now the
last thing is that the formatting of this I think is not my favorite. If you
actually select this you can see under entity info. It comes up there's this
little thing called advanced attributes. You can change this to like a dot
and the way the leader is hidden. You can also change the font, so I'm going to
change this to something that's maybe a little bit more
handwritten. You can see it... and that's more legible as well. When I make a new
leader... you can see that the formatting didn't save. The way to solve that is to
go to 'window'>'model info' and then under here where it says 'text' you can change
the leader text here. I'm going to go ahead and change that... find my text...
You can change it there. Over in the model info window, we want to change something else.
You can see that the area here is very specific and with areas you don't want
to be that specific because it leads to a level of understanding that just isn't
there. And areas... depending on where you go... where you take your measurements from,
they're not going to be accurate. And how it's built, it's going to be different. So
what we want to do is change this so it rounds it to the nearest whole number.
And even then, I still typically round it to the nearest increment of five. That's
what I always do, but for this, we're just going to do it to the nearest whole
number. So if you go to 'units' here you can see where it says 'format'
'architectural', we want to change this to 'decimal'. Change 'inches' to 'feet'. And now
where it says 'precision' we want to change this to '0'. Then we can exit out of
this. Now when we make a new leader you can see that it has that formatting that
we had before and has rounded the number to the nearest whole number.
So if I change this to 'living room' you can see that I can do this for all
the spaces. If you'd like to edit this text... like I don't want this... I
just want to round it. Just come in here click on the leader and click towards
the bottom.
Then you can change the text in here. So I'm just going to change this to
eight and if you hit enter nothing will happen right away. You need to click out
of the leader and the change will be made. I'm going to do this for the last
two rooms.
Some of the leaders may not be exact over you want them to be. You can move
them. If I select down here and I hit 'M' for move, I can drag the end of the
leader. I can't drag the point of it but you can use your arrow keys to lock to
axes if you want to change its location. There you go.
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