Area analysis

[Mike from Moriches]

Greetings
I am attempting to calculate the square foot area of various shapes. It
seems to work, but the screen with what I assume is the result flashes by so
fast I can't read it. There is no entry on the layer "area" where I think
the results should appear. Do you know the correct use of the Area Analysis
function?

PS - I admit to using Visio 5.0 on Vista where there are known compatibility
problems, but I don't think this is one of them.
Thanks for any clues...
Mike from Moriches

 

[Chris Roth [Visio MVP]]

Hi Mike,

What shape, command, add-on...?

Which century? (sorry)

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[Mike from Moriches]

Chris -
I live in a small community that has about 15 courts (streets) with
various driveways, visitor parking spaces, twisting and turning streets and
different houses. We want to pave over the blacktop road surfaces, and I am
attempting to determine how many square yards of surface we have. Using the
Facilities Management Site Planning template, I drew one of the courts,
'selected all', 'Tools", Macros, "Facilities Management," "Area Analysis."
Area analysis asks what layer you want for the area analysis, then I see a
series of blue rectangles flash on the screen, but it happens too fast for
me to see what it says. Perhaps Area Analysis isn't designed to do what I'm
trying???
Thanks,
Mike

 

[Paul Herber]

Chris -
I live in a small community that has about 15 courts (streets) with
various driveways, visitor parking spaces, twisting and turning streets and
different houses. We want to pave over the blacktop road surfaces, and I am
attempting to determine how many square yards of surface we have. Using the
Facilities Management Site Planning template, I drew one of the courts,
'selected all', 'Tools", Macros, "Facilities Management," "Area Analysis."
Area analysis asks what layer you want for the area analysis, then I see a
series of blue rectangles flash on the screen, but it happens too fast for
me to see what it says. Perhaps Area Analysis isn't designed to do what I'm
trying???
Thanks,
Mike

Try the "Space" shape from the "Walls, Doors and Windows" stencil.
That can also show the area, you might need several of these and
create a total.