Total Area — Autocad Lisp

If you work in architecture, civil engineering, or interior design, you know the drill: you receive a complex floor plan, a site layout, or a zoning exhibit, and your client asks, "What is the total square footage?" Not the area of one room, not the zoning lot—the grand total. In native AutoCAD, calculating multiple areas and summing them manually is a tedious, error-prone process. You can use the AREA command with the "Add" option, but it is clunky. You can create hatches and check their properties, but that takes too long.

This is where shine. With a well-written LISP, you can select dozens of objects (polylines, circles, hatches, or regions) and have AutoCAD instantly return the total area in your desired units—square feet, square meters, acres, or even custom scales. total area autocad lisp

Have a specific total area calculation challenge? Modify the LISP to fit your exact workflow, and you’ll wonder how you ever drafted without it. If you work in architecture, civil engineering, or