# Unstructured Grid Individual Face Areas

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unstructured-grid-individual-face-areas/6606
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unstructured-grid-individual-face-areas/6606 "2021-03-03T20:11:24Z")
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### Author: ![Ian\_Roberts](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/ian_roberts/32/6047_2.png) [@Ian\_Roberts](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ian_Roberts)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 9:42am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unstructured-grid-individual-face-areas/6606/9 "2021-03-04T09:42:49Z")

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Mathieu,  
Looking at the IntegratePolygon it looks like it is just breaking each polygon down in to triangles to calculate the areas. I have used this functionality in the past to get an idea whether my lift and drag calculations were close and was concerned that it was missing out all the polygons.

I am using v5.2.0 currently and I saw [this](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-force-distribution-on-body/5815) post, and wondered if the cellsize was a feature in a newer version that solves this problem.

Thank you for your help, Ian

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