Software design, overlook, or glitch

[brdad]

This is a small issue, but it was an annoyance when I was playing with Designer today. V 1.131 if that matters...

When I set the board size, even though you can edit the size to three decimal places, it does not set to .001 increments. For example, I was trying to make a board 7.245 inches long. Designer lets me enter this into it, but if you go back to board settings you will see it is diverted to 7.242. It seems to step like this:

Entered --- Result

7.234 --- 7.234
7.235 --- 7.234
7.236 --- 7.234
7.237 --- 7.234
7.238 --- 7.234
7.239 --- 7.242
7.240 --- 7.242
7.241 --- 7.242
7.242 --- 7.242
7.243 --- 7.242
7.244 --- 7.242
7.245 --- 7.242
7.246 --- 7.242
7.247 --- 7.250

So it appears to step every .008 inches. Again, not a big deal, but it's annoying when you are trying to be accurate to the resolution you are allowed to edit in the software.

Perhaps it's a design flaw or is there a reason it needs to be this way?

[jlitz]

Designer rounds all measurements, by default, to 1/128" (0.0078125") and displays only 3 decimal points of the fraction.

[brdad]

Thanks, that makes sense. But it seems if the software allows you to create a vector rectangle 7.245 inches long and display the dimension as 7.245, you would be able to do the same with the board length, even if either dimension is rounded to 1/128" behind the scenes.