This tutorial covers some of the GeoTools Inquiry tools for finding out the details of the Lots. 

1. Open the drawing named lesson5.dwg which is located in your GeoTools Tutorials folder. This folder is located in the folder where you have installed GeoTools.

2. You should see a drawing of a Sub-Division layout as shown in (Image 6-1).

Image 6-1

3. The layout drawing shows number of Lots and each Lot is given a unique number but now we would like to know the area of each lot and mark it beside the lot number.

Marking the area of each lot

1. Click on menu GeoTools=> Inquiry => Compute summed areas of closed polylines or type GT_CALCAREA at the command prompt.

Image 6-2

5. This will pop-up a dialog box as show below in (Image 6-3). 

Image 6-3

6. Choose the options as shown in above (Image 6-3) and specify the Text Height as 2.00 

7. You can specify the layer in which labeling to be done by clicking on Select... button.

8. This will pop-up the dialog box as shown below in (Image 6-4).

Image 6-4

9. Select the layer LOT_LINES and click on OK button. This will bring you back to the previous dialog box.

10. Next click on OK button this will pop-up the Standard selection dialog box as shown below in (Image 6-6).

Image 6-6
 

12. Now for labeling the objects in LOT_LINES layer only. Check the Layer box under Properties and then click on Layers button under Names in Drawing.

13. This will pop-up the dialog box as shown below in (Image 6-4).

Image 6-4

14. Select the layer LOT_LINES and click on OK button. This will bring you back to Standard selection dialog box. As shown below in (Image 6-7).

Image 6-7


15. If you notice in the Standard selection dialog box above. In the Layers box LOT_LINES is selected. (Note: This will select the objects in LOT_LINES layer only)

16. Now click on button Scan entire drawing, it will show you the number of objects selected from LOT_LINES layer at the bottom left corner of Standard selection box.

17. Lastly click on Apply button for labeling all the Lots with respective area. As shown below in (Image 6-8).

Image 6-8
objects 

After learning how to label the area of lots, we will see how to get the total summed area of objects in respective layers.

Getting the total summed area of objects in respective layers

1. Click on menu GeoTools => Polyline Toolset 2 => Compute summed polyline areas from selected layers or type GT_LAYERAREA at the command prompt.

2. This will pop-up dialog box as shown below in (Image 6-10)

Image 6-10

3. Now click on Select Layers... button this will pop-up the dialog box as shown below in (Image 6-11)

Image 6-11


4. Select LOT_LINES and ROAD_EDGES layer as shown above in (Image 6-11) and click on OK button this will bring you back to the Display length and total area dialog box. 
Displaying the total summed Area, Length and Color details from selected layers. As shown below in (Image 6-12).

Image 6-12


5. For generating a table of layer areas check the box Create table of layer areas and click on OK button. 

6. Next you will be prompted to pick an insertion point for placing the table. Pick a point in empty area this will generate the table as shown below in (Image 6-13)


Image 6-13

 

Now we will see how we can get the detailed statistic of the current drawing

Getting Detailed Statistics of the current drawing

1. Click on menu GeoTools => Inquiry => Display drawing statistics or type GT_DWG_STAT at the command prompt. This will pop-up the dialog box as shown below in (image 6-14)

Image 6-14


2. Check all the boxes as shown above in (Image 6-14) for processing and click on OK button.

3. This will pop-up the Standard selection dialog box as shown below in (Image 4-11) 

Image 4-11


4. Click on Scan entire drawing button for selecting all the objects in the drawing. At the bottom left corner of the dialog box it displays the number of objects. 

5. Now click on Apply button to start processing the details. After the processing is over you will be prompted to specify the filename for saving the drawing statistics.

6. Specify a desired file name along with file location path.

7. To view the details of drawing statistics just press function key F2 which will bring up the AutoCAD text window displaying all the details.

8. And at the same time you can also view the detailed drawing statistics by opening in Notepad text editor from the path where you have saved. It will display the total 
drawing statistics as shown below in (Image 6-15)

Image 6-15