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How to draw extern contour of dwg plan


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Hello,i would like to calculate the surface of a dwg plan. My first approach was to make a bounding box and calculate the area but it's not precise enough.

 

 

I was wondering how i could do something like that :

 

 

 

The blue line is at 4 meters of the feature ....

 

 

I hope you see what I mean , and hope that you could help me.

 

 

Thanks a lot.

 

 

Best regards.

 

 

Steph.

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You could buffer the feature by 4m and then calculate the area of the polygon created

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You could buffer the feature by 4m and then calculate the area of the polygon created

I thought to that possibility but the thing is my drawing is made of thousands lines and I want that the most outside lines define the "polygon area"...

 

 

as you see in my drawing (sorry I'm not autocad drawer) the black lines are my features and I want to get a polygon just as the area inside de red lines
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I thought to that possibility but the thing is my drawing is made of thousands lines and I want that the most outside lines define the "polygon area"...

 

 

as you see in my drawing (sorry I'm not autocad drawer) the black lines are my features and I want to get a polygon just as the area inside de red lines

Ok, if your data is like that then a hull accumulator might be a better possibility. You could still use the bufferer but you would need to dissolve afterwards. Or you could aggregate then buffer.

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Ok, if your data is like that then a hull accumulator might be a better possibility. You could still use the bufferer but you would need to dissolve afterwards. Or you could aggregate then buffer.

Thanks for this info.

 

I didn't know this transformer.

 

 

It's a bit more what I want to achieve....

 

 

If i could reach the red line area, it would be perfect !
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Thanks for this info.

 

I didn't know this transformer.

 

 

It's a bit more what I want to achieve....

 

 

If i could reach the red line area, it would be perfect !

Did you try the aggregator followed by a bufferer?

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Hi @stephanemarly,

It think the buffer approach might work if you aggregate your features into one feature using the aggregator transformer and then buffer it and calculate the area.

Hopes this helps,

Itay

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If you first aggregate your features with the Aggregator and then use the HullAccumulator transformer you might end up with a result that is useful for this purpose.

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