Area measurement tool is useless?

[ygoe]

Hello,

I very much anticipated the new area measurement tool. In v1 I had to help myself with temporary rectangles and a calculator. I hoped that I can now measure the rooms in my floor plan easily. But this doesn't seem to be the case.

After trying it out and then reading the documentation, I understood that this tool can show me the area of a single or multiple selected objects.

I don't have objects that span entire rooms. My rooms exist between walls that are rectangles, some of them rotated by 45°.

What I need is something that works like the distance measurement tool: Select all points of the polygon, snapping to objects, and drawing a closed polygon of the room outlines. This is how GIS tools work. As soon as the polygon is closed, they show you the area inside the drawn selection. I don't know what I could use the area of a single existing object for, really. A simple product calculation of width and height would do in most cases.

So, Affinity v2 is of no help here either and I'll have to draw temporary rectangles and use a calculator again just as before. 🙁