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.
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