Find area of face in mm?

[tmillar]

I am trying to work out the area of all the faces on a model.

I see you can do this by measure inertia and measure item.

The answer always appears in m^2 and rounds it off to 3 decimal points, is there a way to give the exact answer in mm^2 or give the exact answer in m^2?

 

[jackk]

Tools + Options + General + Parameters and Measure

in the UNITS tab; scroll down to AREA and choose whatever units you want to use. Lower down in the same panel, you can set the DECIMAL PLACES FORE READ/WRITE NUMBERS if you want something other than 3

 

[tmillar]

Got it:

Tools > Options > General > Parameters and Measure > Units

Any magnitude here can now be altered to suit your specification

 

[tmillar]

You just beat me to it . Thank you for your help Jack

 

[tmillar]

One more question.

I'm not sure what the problem is here, but I don't think that the measure tool is calculating the correct area for me. It says 1200mm2 for both faces but 1 face is clearly larger than the other.

"Face" contains the correct area of 1200mm2

I have included a screen shot

 

[tmillar]

Sorry I am incorrect, the computer wins

 

[jackk]

it usually does