Meshes in displayValue have area and volume as zero. about speckle-sharp HOT 2 OPEN

@ks-cph What is the correct interpretation of Area for the Mesh?

Let's say a CLT Floor Slab or a Drywall Wall - is this Plan Area, Face area?

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Hey @jsdbroughton,

thanks for your response.
In my opinion, this property should address the surface of the Mesh without interpreting the domain knowledge such as using the plan area for a slab and the side area for a wall. This area property should aggregate all faces of the Mesh into one value.

Now we could argue that all information is stored in the vertices and faces arrays. But then again, why is there an Area property? And this is what I hoped to find out. I guess there is a reason why the area property was added, and I guess there is also a good reason to set it to zero. For me as a user, however, it would be very beneficial to get the numbers directly without computing each individual face area.

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