Jim Smith Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Frequently I move between Imperial (ft. & inches) and metric. I have noticed a problem with this process. When I set my units in metric to 3 decimal places measurements display 3 decimal places. If I then switch to imperial for a while, then go back to metric and set the decimal places to three, something goes wrong and I only get one decimal place. I have to select each dimension, then change the number of decimal places back to three places. Any ideas how to fix this? VW 10 on Mac8.5 Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Go to the Page menu>Units. Where it says Set Units for: select "General Display". What do you have for rounding? If you have decimal or fractional/decimal mix, do you have three decimals? Where you have "General Display" selected, switch to "Dimension Objects Primary" Do you have fractional or decimal? If decimal, do you have 3 decimal places? Quote Link to comment
Jim Smith Posted April 6, 2004 Author Share Posted April 6, 2004 Katie: You Rock! Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 I take it that fixed the problem ? Quote Link to comment
Chris Dordoni Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Hi Katie, Does frequent switching between Metric and Imperial units introduce rounding errors in VW? Chris Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 Are you using the same decimal place values for General Display and Dimensions for both metric and imperial in the Units menu? Quote Link to comment
Chris Dordoni Posted April 7, 2004 Share Posted April 7, 2004 Katie, Lets say I wanted 0.001" accuracy. Since 0.001" = 0.0254mm, the the number of decimal places required to express the same measurement would be different in each units system. So perhaps English decimals = 0.0000 and Metric decimals = 0.00000 for 0.001" accuracy??? Chris Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Andrew Bell@NV Posted April 7, 2004 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 7, 2004 quote: Originally posted by Chris Dordoni: Does frequent switching between Metric and Imperial units introduce rounding errors in VW? Chris No, VectorWorks just changes how it displays the coordinates, not the coordinate values themselves. The decimal precision in the units dialog only affects what is displayed, not the actual value saved. Thus if you zoom well in and nudge your object, the display will not show the (say) 0.000001 you just shifted the object by, but you could see the difference on-screen when zoomed well in. Quote Link to comment
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