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Calculation units and rules

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Calculation units and rules

- [Instructor] ArchiCAD is a very robust application, allowing us to change what our floor plans dimensions look like or our elevation dimensions are measured at, and we discussed earlier that we can adjust our dimensions here, and they'll quickly adjust what we see and how things are dimensioned. But ArchiCAD also provides the ability to do calculations, and the calculations can determine the volume or area of slabs or fills. What I've done is I've just created a quick schedule. And so this schedule is taking the area of a fill and it's also taking the perimeter. So what I did is I went to my schedules, and so over in my project map, I go into schedules, and then I right click and I said new schedule. And so I'm just doing an area calculation. We'll just make it fill area calcs. And then I'm going to change this to fills at the bottom, and then I'm going to add a field and I'm just going to do area. And then I'm going…

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