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Land dimensions

LordHarley Nightfire
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Join date: 26 Mar 2008
Posts: 7
10-08-2008 06:42
I know the square meters of my land but how do I find the dimentions. The length and width. Some places that sell homes offer a free "footprint" of the house to try on your land and see if it fits but most do not. Is there a way to find the length and width of your property?
Annabelle Babii
Unholier than thou
Join date: 2 Jun 2007
Posts: 1,797
10-08-2008 06:49
Right click the land
edit terrain
select land
click the ground.
that square is 4mx4m
count the number of squares per side

...or use prims to measure
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Weston Graves
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Join date: 24 Mar 2007
Posts: 2,059
10-08-2008 08:40
Many parcels are divided into standard sizes and shapes, but not necessarily so. Thus:

256 = 16 x 16 meters
512 = 16 x 32
1024 = 32 x 32
2048 = 32 x 64
4096 = 64 x 64

and so on up to an entire sim. I think this would have been ideal standards if they had stayed that way. It would make building and purchasing structures a lot easier, but over the years people have divided and joined the land into odd shapes and sizes so not all conform to this.

I can't believe I am advocating conformity. Did I get old or something?
Imnotgoing Sideways
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10-08-2008 09:01
Because my parcel was somewhat oddly shaped... I used Visio to draw and measure it so that I could wrap my head around it as simply as possible. (^_^)y

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Ponsonby Low
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Join date: 21 May 2008
Posts: 1,893
10-08-2008 09:27
The advice to right-click the ground and choose Edit Terrain is correct, but counting individual 4 x 4 (16m) squares can be difficult because each disappears as the next is clicked, and it's easy to lose track.

A fairly quick way to be sure you've got the right length, along one side of a parcel, is to do the right-click and Edit Terrain, then do one click in a corner to be sure you've got the 4m by 4m width selected---but then to extend the rectangle (still 4m wide---be careful, it's easy to accidentally widen it to 8m) from one end of the parcel's side to the other. Then whatever number shows in the Edit Terrrain window---divide it by 4.

That will give you the length of that side.
Lindal Kidd
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Join date: 26 Jun 2007
Posts: 8,371
10-08-2008 09:59
Also, as you drag out the selection rectangle, it enlarges in perceptible "steps" as it selects each new 4x4 block. Just count the steps in your head as you drag out the selection.
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Kelli May
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Join date: 7 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,135
10-08-2008 10:12
If it's *your* property, as opposed to somewhere you are just considering buying, you can survey it like you would a RL property. Set 'show land owners' and drop a prim in each corner. Position them to the grid... I think the smallest division of land is 4m x 4m so it should be pretty obvious where the boundaries are. If you can spare the prims, it can be useful to make corner markers (make them transparent and phantom) and leave them in place permanently.

I've always found it a good idea to note down the corner positions, dimensions and centre position of my land and keep it on a note card for reference. My current plot is an unusual but handy 40m x 28m with the centre at a very convenient (100, 50) on the grid.
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