grid spacing precision

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morsel
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grid spacing precision

Postby morsel » Fri May 20, 2011 2:34 pm

Under Document Properties, with grid units set to Inches, grid spacing precision is limited to 4 decimal places, which makes working with designs for small parts difficult, as grids of 1/32" (.03125") or smaller fractional powers of 2 require more than 4 decimal places of precision. Is there a way to change grid spacing precision to 8 decimal places?

~suv
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Re: grid spacing precision

Postby ~suv » Sat May 21, 2011 8:00 pm

You can edit the values for the grid spacing using 'Edit > XML Editor…':
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morsel
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Re: grid spacing precision

Postby morsel » Mon May 23, 2011 12:34 am

Thanks for the workaround. I think grid spacing precision should be the same as the numeric precision specified in SVG output. Should this be considered a bug or a feature request, and where should I report this to?


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