area

[johnhan76]

Is there a way to use the inqire area and get the results in acres instead of feet sq.

 

[IFRs]

The only way I know of is to draw in units of acres instead of feet. Then use decimal units (ddunits).

Alternately, you can use a lisp function to do the conversion.

 

[CarlB]

You could scale a copy of your drawing by 1/(43560)^0.5, or about 1/208.71, and areas reported by AREA or LIST will effectively be in acre units.

 

[smcadman]

Try this:

; AAREA.LSP
(DEFUN c:aarea ()
  (SETQ	oc (GETVAR "cmdecho")
	nc (SETVAR "cmdecho" 0)
  )
  (SETQ getobj (ENTSEL "Select object to get area of:"))
  (COMMAND "AREA" "o" getobj)
  (SETQ	sqft  (/ (GETVAR "AREA") 144)
	sqyds (/ sqft 9)
	acres (/ sqft 43560)
  )
  (ALERT
    (STRCAT "\nSquare Feet = "
	    (RTOS sqft 2 3)
	    "\nSquare Yards = "
	    (RTOS sqyds 2 3)
	    "\nAcres = "
	    (RTOS acres 2 3)
    )
  )
  (SETVAR "cmdecho" oc)
)
(PROMPT "To use, enter aarea at the command line.")
(PRINC)

Flores

 

[johnhan76]

THANKS FLORES