Closed curve returning negative area

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Hi

I’m using a text field to calculate a curve’s area. In general this works but I’ve found a condition where it is reporting a negative area. The curve is closed and planar. Any ideas what would be causing this?

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Negative area.3dm (32.1 KB)

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I assume you are using DimArea, which returns a negative value. Area returns a positive value.

It may be connected with the curve being a polycurve of several arcs. If I rebuild it as a single, non-rational curve DimArea returns a positive value.

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Hi Paul -

Thanks, I reported that as RH-68956.
-wim

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I’m facing this problem also. two areas are positive and area is negative

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Hi Tom -
A picture really doesn’t help anything.
Please provide the 3dm file.
-wim

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Negative area.3dm (163.4 KB)

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Hi Tom - see the text field gets this wrong - the Area command does not. Thanks, we’ll fix it.
RH-69998 Text fields: negative area
Apparently this is fixed in the WIP for V8.

-Pascal

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RH-69998 is fixed in Rhino 7 Service Release 23