Monday, February 21, 2011
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Before you can get the area and perimeter of a drawing figure in autocad you must first make sure that the figure is an object in autocad and is a closed one. Therefore, you must first check if the figure or polygon is closed by making sure that the line segments are connected. Next you need to make sure that autocad recognized it as an object.
One way to do this is by making it a region using the autocad's REGION command. Simply type in REGION, select the figure and then hit ENTER. Your drawing figure should be a region and an object in autocad at this point. We are now ready to get the area and perimeter. The command is, of course, AREA. Type in AREA, choose object option by typing in O, hit ENTER, select the drawing object and then hit ENTER. The area and perimeter values should be displayed on the command line as well as on the tip of your mouse pointer.
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