from PW/src/symm_base.f90 :

  ! ... these are acceptance criteria
  !
  REAL(DP), PARAMETER :: eps1 = 1.0d-6, eps2 = 1.0d-5


I guess you can change those values and recompile the code to force it to use a 
certain tolerance
Giovanni


> On 14 Feb 2019, at 09:58, Fabrizio Cossu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 17:37, Paolo Giannozzi <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 8:34 AM Offermans Willem <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> So neb.x is able to detect symmetry. Only in my particular case, it is not 
> able to and I wonder why.
> 
> the reason has been explained no less than 1001 times: if the code does not 
> find a symmetry, it's not there, according to the criteria implemented in the 
> code. 
> 
> Paolo
> 
> A DFT code should recognise symmetry operations within a certain tolerance 
> given the coordinates of the atoms. A quick search ("symmetry", "tolerance") 
> in the pw.x input options does not return any result for a tunable parameter. 
> What is the default value for the tolerance, and what should I do if I had to 
> define a certain tolerance?
> Thank you,
> Fabrizio
> 
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