How to see room areas and print an area schedule

See the area of each room

1. 1

   Close the room with walls

   Draw walls all the way around a room. As soon as it is closed, a chip with its net area appears on the plan.

   

2. 2

   Name the room

   Add a Room label inside the room. The name is used in the Areas panel and in the schedule. Unnamed rooms are listed as Room 1, Room 2 and so on.

3. 3

   Show or hide the chips

   Turn Room Areas on or off in the Layers panel on the right.

Read the Areas panel

1. 4

   Open Areas

   In the right sidebar, open Areas, below Layers. The row shows the floor total even when it is folded.

   

2. 5

   Read the numbers

   The panel lists every room on this floor with its net area, then Rooms (net), the Gross floor area and Walls & other (gross minus rooms). A multi-floor project also shows Building totals over every floor.

Measure any area by hand

1. 6

   Pick Room area

   Press A, or click Room area under Measure & label in the left toolbar.

2. 7

   Outline the area

   Click each corner. Points snap to the nearest inner, outer or centre corner; hold Alt to place freely. Click the first point, or double-click, to close it. Press Esc to clear.

3. 8

   Colour it

   Pick an Area highlight color for the measured area, for example to show a garden or a zone.

Print an area schedule

1. 9

   Tick Area schedule

   Click Export in the top bar. Under Include, tick Area schedule.

2. 10

   Check the table

   The sheet gets an Area schedule table with each room, the rooms subtotal, the gross floor area and walls and other. With several floors you also get the building totals.

   

3. 11

   Place it on the sheet

   In Edit sheet, drag the table where you want it and resize it. Long tables flow into columns. It prints in PNG, SVG, PDF and Black & white.

Tips

• Numbers are to 2 decimals, exactly as the chips on the plan. An area marked ~ is measured to wall centres.
• With Separate pages, each plan page lists its own floor plus the building totals. On One sheet, one table lists every plan on the sheet.
• Manual areas you measure with Room area are listed, but not added to the room subtotal.
• Separate buildings on one floor, like a house and a garage, are added up in the gross floor area.
• Switch units in the top bar to see the same areas in m² or ft².

Common problems

A room shows no area

The room is not closed. Look for a gap at a corner and drag the wall end onto the other wall until it snaps.

The area has a ~ in front of it

The inside faces of that room could not be worked out, so the area is measured to the wall centres and is approximate. Look for overlapping walls, walls that cross slightly past a corner, or a tiny gap, and tidy them up.

The area does not match my measurement

The chip is the net floor inside the wall faces. Check that the wall thickness matches reality, and that the wall is drawn along the right face (Corner join).

I want square feet, not square metres

Change the units in the top bar or in Settings. Imperial units show areas in ft².