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setting in the General Plan Defaults dia- Room Specification dialog. To restore the
log. It is rounded to the nearest square label, check the Show Room Label
foot or mm and does not include the area checkbox on the GENERAL panel of that
within bay, box and bow windows. See dialog.
“Exterior and Interior Walls” on page 349
and “General Plan Defaults Dialog” on Note: If you use the Convert to Rich Text edit
page 101. tool to convert a Room Label to a Text object,
• Rooms, Interior Area is measured from it will no longer be display room size informa-
the inner surfaces of all the room's walls. tion or update if the room type is changed.
See “Convert to Rich Text” on page 505.
• Rooms, Interior Dimensions is also
measured from the inner surfaces of the Room Area
room walls. Its format is set on the
DIMENSION FORMAT panel of the Room Unlike the rest of a room label, the room area
Label Defaults dialog. See “Room Label and dimensions are not standard text entries
Defaults” on page 414. and cannot be edited or changed. The room
area moves, resizes and rotates with the rest
The display of room labels can also be of the room label, but you can turn the area
controlled on a room by room basis in the and dimensions on or off separately in the
Room Specification dialog. See “General Layer Display Options dialog. See
Panel” on page 435.
“Displaying Rooms” on page 417.
The Interior Area room area calculation
You can customize room labels using a includes the areas within bay, box or bow
variety of text macros. See “Text Mac-
ros” on page 522. windows, while the Standard Area and
Interior Dimensions calculations do not.
Editing Room Labels You can use the Make Room Area
Polyline edit button to see the exact
Room labels are similar to simple Text
objects and can be moved and resized much extents of the selected room’s Standard Area.
like any other text object. You can also You can also insert room areas as well as
modify a room label’s Text Style and other other information into text objects using Text
attributes in the Room Label Specification Macros. See “Text Macros” on page 522.
dialog. See “Text Specification Dialog” on
page 499. Living Area
The text of a room label cannot be modified The Living Area label is an automatically
in its specification dialog, however: it must generated Text object that reports the area of
be specified in the Room Specification the current floor specified as living space. By
dialog. See “General Panel” on page 435. default, Interior Rooms are defined as part of
If you delete a room label, the Room Type the Living Area, while Exterior and Hybrid
and Room Name remain unchanged in the Rooms are not. See “Room Functions” on
page 415.

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