farmazone Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Hello, Is there a way to get an area of a shape? Something that exists in autocad. Thank You. Regards! Raskolnikov, Aammppaa and Kal 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted October 3, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 3, 2014 We don't currently have this feature but I will move this question to feature requests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmazone Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 Thanks. It would be awesome. In Illustrator I used this plugin to calculate object's area http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/ Kal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henzin Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 I second this idea. Used to use this feature all the time in Inkscape Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henzin Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 On 3. 10. 2014 at 7:23 PM, TonyB said: We don't currently have this feature but I will move this question to feature requests. What's the status on this item? Has the implementation of this been road-mapped, or has the idea been discarded? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Henzin. 40 minutes ago, Henzin said: What's the status on this item? Has the implementation of this been road-mapped, or has the idea been discarded? If it isn't on the roadmap then it hasn't been "road-mapped" but I can't imagine the developers completely ruling out the addition of such a useful feature. As a Windows user, if I want to measure areas or perimeters I export to PDF and then use the measurement tools in PDF-XChange Editor. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Mar Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 I need this feature to calculate floor areas of house plans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 + 1 Xara Designer displays area and perimeter for the selected object, which I find useful. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auke Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 (edited) would be very nice to have! I am working on floor plans as well just tracing the walls gives a shape of which I want the area. not sure if it has other applications (I see why it is not a priority) Any known workarounds? - PDF area I will try. - I now just make squares and calculate the surface area for each square and add them to get the area of a room. Edited August 6, 2020 by Auke typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outline4 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 +1 This would be very useful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.zhukovsky Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 UP! i think area and perimeter calculation will very usefull functions. Now i use rhinoceros for this, but this switching through applications, export/import, is not comfortable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Designer needs an Info panel. In addition to displaying the area of a closed shape (which I agree would be very useful), it could (among other things) display the length of a line as its being drawn (using the Pen tool in Line Mode—something Affinity Photo already does). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 On 10/4/2014 at 5:12 AM, farmazone said: Thanks. It would be awesome. In Illustrator I used this plugin to calculate object's area http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/ I just discovered this too. It's a nice plugin, and free. Since it's very easy to copy and paste an object from Designer to Illustrator, it's one of the most efficient methods. The only thing you have to be careful of, is if you have a stroke on your object, it may come into Illustrator as two separate objects, and even though they're aligned, one atop the other, the Patharea Filter plugin will give you the total area of both objects if they're both selected—in other words, your result will be twice what you want. Easy to fix if you're aware of it. Download from here. Double-click the downloaded archive, drag the 'PathArea (CS6).aip' file to Illustrator's Plug-ins folder, and launch Illustrator. The command appears under: Object > Filters > Path area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoVictor Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 On 10/3/2014 at 2:23 PM, TonyB said: We don't currently have this feature but I will move this question to feature requests. Hi I saw it was a question from 2014. Is it already implemented? It is important to my work to have this, something similar to what we have in info box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 49 minutes ago, GeoVictor said: already implemented? Sorry, no. Same with lenght etc. as we can see on the hidden roadmap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Shuttleworth Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 (edited) I too would like to see this feature. I am using Designer to design a plan for my garden, and I need to calculate areas for paths, lawns, etc. For rectangles and circles it's easy to do with a calculator, but for a curved path...not so much. Of course there would need to be an option to include/exclude the stroke. Edited April 17, 2021 by Roger Shuttleworth Incomplete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramatsu Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 I’ve been an illustrator user since v 1.0, and have finally cancelled my CS subscription and am trying to force myself to make the leap to Affinity tools. I’ve used multiple plugins over the years for area calculation in illustrator, and am finding it to be a real pinch not to have the feature in AD. A couple of posts above refer me link to a roadmap, but those are dead links, so no way I can find to check the status on this. Please, please, p,ease, area of a shape calculation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolamike Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Would also very much appreciate having area and perimeter of a shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolamike Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 On 9/11/2021 at 11:43 AM, nolamike said: Would also very much appreciate having area and perimeter of a shape. Kudos, Affinity, for delivering this in v2! Thank you! Kal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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