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

On 11/19/15 11:04 AM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote:
> A bit of a rant. My apologies and respect to all who have made Draw
> possible in advance.
>
> On 11/19/2015 11:25 AM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> > 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.
> Thank you for pointing this out.
> > 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.
> If I insist on the inch system, I should use inches.  Not meant to be
> harsh, but really?
> Can't debate your math, but shouldn't data be entered as it is measured?

For discussion's sake only, not to start an argument, if you are going 
to measure in inches as your selection, then to expand on that, would 
you want your font to be measured in inches instead of points?

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