There's a program called Vectorworks (formerly MiniCad) that does
this quite handily in an object information palette. It also
displays the perimeter length of closed and unclosed polygons -
useful for line-length balancing and such. There's info at
http://www.nemetschek.net/vectorworks/index.html
John Waldron
At 9:18 PM -0400 2002/9/3, Morgan, Sven wrote:
>Does anyone know of a simple graphics program which calculates areas of
>irregular shapes? I have been using a very old version of canvas
>(because the newer versions do not calculate area), but
>there must be something newer.
>
>Sven Morgan
>Does anyone know of a simple graphics program which calculates areas of
>irregular shapes? I have been using a very old version of canvas
>(because the newer versions do not calculate area), but
>there must be something newer.
>
>Sven Morgan
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