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DM Surface

DM-Surface Manual

DM Surface is one of three plugins in the DM Measure series and is included with the purchase of DM Measure. DM Surface is used to calculate the surface area of ​an ​object. The object must be a polygon object. Primitives are not currently supported.

Installation

• Download the DM Measure Plugin
• Unpack the Zip File and copy the folder which corresponds with your Cinema 4D version into the plugin folder in “App Data/Roaming…../Plugins”. Do not install DM-Measure into the C:/Program Files…..because you don’t have writing permissions.
• Delete all previous versions of DM Measure.

Description

1. If you want to calculate the entire surface of the object, either select all polygons or leave all polygons unselected.

2. If you want to calculate only specific areas of the object, simply select the desired polygons.

3. Next

   • Call the plugin
   • Choose the units
   • Press Calculate

A text spline is created using an extrude object, with the calculated area in the previously set units of measurement.