Re: [libreoffice-users] precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

Hi Dave,

dave boland schrieb:
> Thanks all.  If I make a suggestion to LO - add some more CAD abilities
> to Draw such as higher precision.

The current internal precision is 1/100 mm. Armin Le Grand had started 
to change Draw to number format double to allow higher precision, see 
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Aw080_documentation. Unfortunately 
there is currently no Company which will pay for finishing that work.

You can get a very high precision in the UI, if you view the drawing 
with 3000% zoom and move/scale the objects using the array keys together 
with the Alt-key.

If you insist on the inch system, and need fractions of inches, you 
should change the unit from inch to point. It is 72 point = 1 inch, so 
0.125 inch can be entered as 9 point, and with such number there is no 
problem in the UI. But you should notice that 1 inch = 2.54 cm and 
therefore 0.125 inch = 0.3175 cm = 317.5 * 1/100mm. It cannot be 
represented exactly with the internal 1/100mm unit.

But if your drawing needs a higher precision than 1/100mm and needs an 
1:1 scale, then LibreOffice is the wrong tool.

  LOD is a very useful program, and
> could be even more useful.

Draw can already do much more as the most users can imagine. Only the UI 
needs improvements for power users.

Kind regards
Regina






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