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Listing Area Properties of Solids’ Surfaces

Hello,

One of our readers, Gökhan Güneş sent me an e-mail;

“ I discoreved your site a while ago and have been following with fascination. I have a question for you, it would make why work a lot easier if I could find out the areas of the curved srufaces once I explode the solids. I always think that with a powerful software like AutoCAD, there is a way to do this but I can’t fnd any. I would really appreciate it if you could help. Keep up the good work.”

Solid modelling in AutoCAD has been added as a very crude feature and in terms of solid-modeling, and it’s not as powerful a tool as other professional solid modeling programs available. Although we are able to generate models of complex objects starting off from simpler geometrical objects, you should use Inventor or other software for better results.

However, there is a solution for Gokhan’s problem is available with the use of the LIST comand. As an example, I was able to make a simple solid using the SUBTRACT command, and could measure the curved area using the LIST command, Fig.1

Fig.1 The surface that I want to find the area.

Fig.2 The properties of the as shown by the LIST command.