The “Area of communications” plugin helps you with the calculation of external areas of communications, including connection parts. It is often necessary if, for example, you want to calculate the area of painting elements. With system families there are no problems because they have a clear shape and their area can be calculated mathematically, but with connecting parts everything is more complicated. This is where our plugin will help. For the plugin to work, you need to prepare in advance a general parameter or project parameter with the data type “area”, and assign it to the appropriate categories.
1. We specify the name of the parameter.
2. We select the data type “Area”.
3. We set “Instance”.
4. We set “Values can vary by group instance”.
5. We select the categories we need (pipes, air ducts and connection parts)
6. We click Ok.
The parameter is ready and configured, start the plugin for calculation.
We select the following settings in the opened window
1. We select the categories for which the plugin should work.
2. We select the parameter to be filled in.
3. We click done.
The plugin does the calculations and records the outer area of the elements in the specified parameter.
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