I have a few rectangle all parallel to each other. I want to set their distance, but not at a constant distance. I thought about doing it for every two using object ---> Rows and columns but the problem is that when I want to set the distance between two objects, it rounds the number! For example I want to set the distance to 0.475 mm but it rounds it up to 0.5 . Is there a solution to this or another different way I can achieve my goal?

Hi.

Could you explain a bit more your goal?

Maybe you could use a spacer object and the align and distribute panel.

Probably the mentioned number rounding is caused by some stroke widths?

This is what I want to do, if you can help me please tell me step by step as I am very much a total noob!

You might try setting guides by double-clicking on them and entering the desired value.



Then you could snap the corners of your rectangles' "bounding boxes" to the guides.

I would go this way:


However inkscape is not a cad program, and if you add/subtract from the paths, it can produce about 0,01 pixel inaccuracy.

"Remove Overlaps" seems pretty good too...

All the spacers can be sized & roughly placed overlapped, selected with the rectangles... then click the button:


Afterwards, the spacers can be moved to another layer and hidden (for future use).

(Too bad there is not a "Remove Gaps" button.)