Find Area in AutoCAD with AREA
Sep 28, 2026
Clicking every corner just to get an area in AutoCAD?
JOIN the lines into one polyline, then AREA picks the whole shape in one click. In this video we click the corners first, then JOIN and AREA on the L shape.
Learn: click corner by corner, JOIN into one polyline, AREA, Enter, Enter, select the line.
Manual: AREA, click each corner, close
Faster: JOIN, AREA, Enter, Enter, select
This video uses AutoCAD 2021 with centimeters as the drawing unit.
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