Below is the email I attempted to send, but sadly did not go through. There is a clear bug with the area property in architectural that really needs to be fixed, and the bug seems to make sense, but the response did not sadly actual address the issue. I you want to use draftsight for floorplans, this really needs to be fixed. I can't seem to be able to send this through any other channels, so here is the best I could come up with.
Please find below my original bug report. I just went back to draftsight, and I can confirm the bug.
Please see attached. For a 100'x100' grid, clearly the area should be 1000'. However, it is shown as 12000' in the properties tab, just as I said in the original bug report. This is a huge miscalculation, which again I assume happened because someone did the simple divide by 12 for feet to inches instead of the sq ft of 144.
Please re-open, and fix this glaring bug.
Additionally, when moving to decimal, it gives you 144000, since it is inches. When calculating square footage for a house, forcing the end user to calculate this when they are attempting to work in feet (hence the usage of architectural mode) is in no way an acceptable workaround.
The original response below from your team said it was in different units. The text says 12000'. What unit is that supposed to be? It's clearly feet. And the only reason I'm this annoyed is because I tried to file a valid bug report and I got a response which clearly wasn't true, and which included a workaround which no professional would accept.
Image uploading doesn't seem to be working for me, so please see here:
http://imgur.com/a/8aGV4
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----From: "Dassault Systemes Support" To: Redacted
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 1:46:33 AM
Subject: Your request SR00407224 Bug in hatch area calculation in properties bar has been processed by Draftsight Support TeamHelloThe Request "Bug in hatch area calculation in properties bar" has been processed by Draftsight Support Team.
Answer is the following one: Last Message: To Submitter Status: Support Analysis > Customer Clarification 04/13/2017 03:10:35PM
Hi User,Thanks for update.
The area in properties palette which is displayed after selecting hatch is not incorrect.It is displayed in different units.As you have specifed Architectural unit in DraftSight>Unit system.If you change the unit to Decimal, area will be displayed correctly in decimal unit (same as getarea command)
Regards,
DraftSight Support
Message History: From Submitter Status: Customer Clarification > Support Analysis
04/12/2017 09:00:17PM From: redacted
Subject: Re: Your request SR00407224 Bug in hatch area calculation in properties bar has been processed by Draftsight Support Team
I already know this. I know the workarounds. This in no way minimizes that there is a bug in your coding, which frankly, should be relatively easy to fix, and many users could accidentally take at face value which would be an issue. The command line tools work great, and I even noted this in my bug report. It's the display in the properties command which does not seem to take into consideration the squared nature of the area which is the issue.
----- Original Message ----- To Submitter Status: Support Analysis > Customer Clarification 04/12/2017 12:46:00PM
Hi User,Thank you for contacting DraftSight Support
.In order to get correct area of entities in DraftSight try below steps:
1. Type command Areaboundary.
2. Select entities for which you want to calculate area and create boundary.
3. Go to Tool>Inquiry>Get area
4. Type E as option to calculate area.
5. Select the boundary that you just created.See the area in the command line.Hope this helps!
Regards,
DraftSight Support
From Submitter Status: Draft > Support Analysis 03/29/2017 12:49:26AM
I do floorplans, and use a hatch as a cheat to find area of a floorplan. However, I recently noticed that the properties shows an incorrect value for the calculated area. (steps to reproduce got deleted somehow).
