How to find area of flat mesh?

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DA523
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How to find area of flat mesh?

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I flattened a mesh by scaling z to 0
I need to find MESH FLAT AREA
Please check attached STL file
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Re: How to find area of flat mesh?

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Have you tried the 'Edit > Mesh > Measure surface' tool? (it should work fine as long as the triangles are not overlapping each other after the mesh has been 'flatten').
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Re: How to find area of flat mesh?

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(on your example mesh, it gave me 1260.28 square units)
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Re: How to find area of flat mesh?

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Yes this is exactly the solution
Thank you
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