..a room with an outline that mimics the precise outline...
Or did I miss something...?
No, you did not miss anything at all. Seems we are all saying pretty much the same thing. The shape of the area to be measured made it interesting, though (assuming green area): whether there is a relatively simple way of achieving a fairly high level of accuracy from a low quality drawing of an odd shape.Or did I miss something...?
Is this practical? Well, not usually, but it can be. One frustration is the numerous standards for how a building should be measured and how area should (must) be measured and indicated: Gross External Area (GEA), Gross Internal Area (GIA), Net Internal Area (NIA), Primary Area, External Area (SEM), Internal Area (SIM), Constructed Area (SDC) and so on. And it does not make it easier that all sorts of institutions have different practices: UK Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, DIN norm 277 (Deutsches Institut für Normung: Grundflächen und Rauminhalte von Bauwerken im Hochbau), 2012 European Real Estate Area Label, to mention but a few.
The European label, if I remember correctly, requires accuracy < 1cm, and I was curious about how long it would take to get a fair precision. It took longer than hansmex 10 minutes (for me to get what I wanted), but task was not daunting. Hence the exercise above: a fair approximation, but < 1cm? I really do not know and will probably never find out. But bottom line is, I think we are all saying the same thing. I just waste more words
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