VB - Extracting Area from a Closed PolyLine

[AndersDeleuran]

@Lyndon_Johnson

… a closed polyline and I was hoping for some advise on how to extract the area.

You can triangulate it and compute the triangle areas. Here’s a Python script demonstrating how:

Area of closed polyline

Here’s a quick implementation of the logic I described: [2021-06-09 16_58_36-Grasshopper - 210609_NonplanarPolylineArea_00] 210609_NonplanarPolylineArea_00.gh (5.8 KB)