Area of a section

[vellamike]

What is the best way to find the area of an entire section? I know you can use

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h.area(x,sec=sectionname)

and figure out what values of x you need to avoid double-counting and iterate over all the x values, summing the areas of each segment, but I was wondering if there was some more elegant way to do this, something along the lines of

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area=sectionname.area

Thanks in advance.

[ted]

No "total section area" method is built in. Nothing says you can't cobble up a function that takes a section as an argument and returns its total area.

[vellamike]

OK just thought I'd check, thanks!