VA area and VA volume components are kind of useless. What area measurement are we seeking from a wall? Area of vertical surfaces of the wall? Of which wall layer? Of interior or exterior surface e.g. for paint or cladding etc ? Area of the footpring of the wall? And if so of which layer?
Imagine that we need measurements of slab areas, window areas etc. The VA area component should be clever-bim-logic measurement tool, nut dump like the normal area component of rhino.
I would add more outputs, more modes on the area component, depending the input object type.
Same logic should apply to va volume component.
If the solution to use those components, is to deconstruct the va object types, then it’s way more useful to use the dump area and volume components, so again the va area and volume components prove to be useless or at leas hard to use.
Hi @GabrielB the Area component measures the wall area based on its center line (regardless of its alignment). Just like it appears in the Properties dialog when you select a wall. Same for the Volume component.
The area and volume components are based on the whole wall, not on their individual components.
These components are created as a quick way to get the values of area and volume of VisualARQ objects, which can be also obtained with the Get Value component:
But again, they are not meant to be used on object components, such a wall layer, or a window frame. In some cases, we have developed specific components for that. For example, there is one to obtain the wall layer thicknesses (or the top/bottom offsets):
So in order to have a quick way to obtain the wall layer area or volume, we should develop specific components for that. Meanwhile, you can just do it by exploding the wall, and measuring the volume and areas of the resulting breps.
And which area? as you say, there are many different areas that might be calculable within a wall layer, so right now it is up to the user to define their workflow to calculate the desired one.
