mm project dimensions: Can I set strokes by 0.01mm increments?

[Otto Manuel]

Hi,

 I am working on a project with a small layout that needs to delivered as vector files.

 There have been many instances where I would like to use a stroke width thicker than 0.1mm but not as thick as 0.2mm. I can type 0.15 into the stroke width dialog but it seems like my stroke width always rounds to a 1/10th of a millimeter.

 Have I overlooked a setting that limits the resolution, perhaps a setting that I may change, or is 1/10thmm the finest increment available in Designer?

 FWIW, if I was delivering a raster image I would just scale up my project and maintain a sort of relativism to the line width, while expecting the line work to blend or interpolate when the raster file was compiled at the final display dimensions, but in this case the project is being sent out as vector so I have been working at the what you see is what you get layout dimension, which matches the intended end use.

 Thank you for any help you may offer.

 Thank you!

[PixelPest]

Go Preferences->User Preferences->Decimal Places for Unit and adjust it for "mm".

Hope this helps.

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, Otto Manuel said:

Have I overlooked a setting that limits the resolution, perhaps a setting that I may change ...

Just the preference setting @PixelPest mentioned. But note that just sets what is displayed in numeric fields, not the actual values used.

So for example, if you enter 0.15 mm into the stroke width dialog that is what it gets set to even if in the display it is rounded up to 0.2 mm.

[Otto Manuel]

10 hours ago, PixelPest said:

Go Preferences->User Preferences->Decimal Places for Unit and adjust it for "mm".

Hope this helps.

Perfect, this was exactly what I hoped to find.

Thank you!!!

[Otto Manuel]

3 hours ago, R C-R said:

Just the preference setting @PixelPest mentioned. But note that just sets what is displayed in numeric fields, not the actual values used.

So for example, if you enter 0.15 mm into the stroke width dialog that is what it gets set to even if in the display it is rounded up to 0.2 mm.

Thank you.

I thought perhaps it was using the extra resolution even though it rounded off, but the differences seemed so subtle, that I wondered if I administering a placebo effect upon myself.

I used the preferences dialog and set the mm to 2 decimal points. This works great, and as you suggested, the strokes that I made previously, and set to various 1/10th increments, now actually display with the values I had entered rather than rounded values.

Thank you!