Hi, I am new to houdini and still exploring the various function of houdini.

I am trying to measure the area of a surface using the measure tab. But however it just doesnt work, i look thru the help file and it doesnt really help. So any advice ?

Basically wat i wanna do is to create a surface measure it area with the measure tab, then restraint the area of the surface so that no matter how the surface changes, it will keep to a specific range of area .

Thanks alot

I'm assuming that you just have regular polygon geometry. Each polygon is a distinct “primitive” in Houdini. The Measure “SOP” (aka surface/geometry operator) will compute the area for each primitive. So if you want to get the total area of all primitives, you will also need to append a AttribPromote SOP to sum them all up into a detail attribute. See the attached pic.

As for restraining the surface to target a specific area, I don't know. It sounds hard.