How to measure area of all footprints in design

Layout Footprints
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How would one go about measuring the total are of all components in a design? This is to decide the board size before placement. Usually a conservative 60% is preferred

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Hmmm… Sum up the court yards? I’m not sure why you need to know the board size before placement unless you have an unusually shaped board? On a ‘normal’ rectangular board changing the board size on the edge cut layers is easy enough.

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When you 1st import a circuit into the PCB tool, all components are grouped together so you could draw a crude rectangle around them and do an x*y (or as hermit says, sum the courtyard)