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Area & Quantity Calculations
The scope of area calculations includes geometric measurements, such as volumes, length and perimeters. Quantity calculations provide data concerning the number of elements in the model, wall surfaces and wall volumes.
Areas, volumes and other statistics of a building may be required for various purposes. ARC+ offers:
Area calculations— planning or building permission (application for a building license); verifying your design against the original program-schedule.
Quantity calculations — bills of materials (quantities).
The first section of this chapter provides an overview on how to prepare your model for calculations. This is followed by a detailed description of using the areas and quantities options with their respective dialog boxes.
The method for generating area and quantity calculations can be summarized as follows:
Identify room
Assign a name and/or a number to the room
Identify and number floor
Execute the calculations
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