Stv Posted April 27, 2019 Posted April 27, 2019 (edited) I’m working a document where I set the units to inches, and need to represent typical fractional lumber measurements: x.125, x.25, x.375, etc.. The transform panel rounds everything to a single decimal place. So entering an item to have a width of .125 (1/8th inch), displays as .1. Adding .125 it displays as .2. Repeating two more times adding .125 to the item should end up as .5, but Affinity Designer shows it to be .4. (Internally AD appears to be storing the result rounded to 1 decimal place) Is there not an option to control the precision/decimal places? As an alternative I thought of multiplying all measurements by 100 so 200.125” would be 20012.5, but it looks like there’s a document limit of 128000 points. Edited April 27, 2019 by Stv Quote
Staff stokerg Posted April 29, 2019 Staff Posted April 29, 2019 Hi Stv and Welcome to the Forums, It's only the display in the app that is being rounded. The values you are entering are being honoured in the background and if you open the same file up in the Desktop version of Affinity and check the size of any items, they will be displayed correctly (you may need to alter the decimal places option in Preferences to see the full value). We do have this logged and hopefully it won't be too long before we have the ability to display the actual value being entered. Quote
Larry4499 Posted December 28, 2019 Posted December 28, 2019 I’d like to see 3-4 decimals displayed in the transform window as well! Quote
SarahT Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 Hi, Any update on displaying multiple decimal places? I’m having to use very large documents so that I can see accurate dimensions, with the result that Designer is constantly crashing. A scaling option would also solve my problem, if that’s likely to be coming any sooner? Quote
RoywithaT Posted December 28, 2020 Posted December 28, 2020 Adding my support for at least two decimal places (preferably three) being displayed on the transform panel. Quote
Blitzinurzua Posted April 7, 2021 Posted April 7, 2021 Are we getting the added decimals any time this year? asking for a friend. Quote
Savvy Custom Gifts Posted November 2, 2021 Posted November 2, 2021 I also need 4 decimal places when producing production files for laser engraving. Quote
DM1 Posted November 3, 2021 Posted November 3, 2021 13 hours ago, Savvy Custom Gifts said: I also need 4 decimal places when producing production files for laser engraving. The values you enter will be honoured. Only the display view is rounded off (annoying as you can’t come back and check what was set. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
GarryP Posted November 3, 2021 Posted November 3, 2021 I asked this question https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/114419-numerical-input-fields-display-non-accuracy-indication/ a while back but it didn’t get many replies so I didn’t make it into a feature request. Maybe it’s time to make it a request and see if anything happens. Quote
DM1 Posted November 3, 2021 Posted November 3, 2021 On 4/29/2019 at 7:30 PM, stokerg said: We do have this logged and hopefully it won't be too long before we have the ability to display the actual value being entered. 21 minutes ago, GarryP said: Maybe it’s time to make it a request and see if anything happens. The devs are aware of this but it’s obviously not a priority (to them).🙁 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
Squarebear Posted January 27, 2022 Posted January 27, 2022 On 4/29/2019 at 4:30 AM, stokerg said: Hi Stv and Welcome to the Forums, It's only the display in the app that is being rounded. The values you are entering are being honoured in the background and if you open the same file up in the Desktop version of Affinity and check the size of any items, they will be displayed correctly (you may need to alter the decimal places option in Preferences to see the full value). We do have this logged and hopefully it won't be too long before we have the ability to display the actual value being entered. It’s been almost 3 years so I’m hoping this gets some love and attention. A huge issue for me. Quote
LookToTheSky Posted February 3, 2022 Posted February 3, 2022 It is simply not true that Affinity Designer on iPad is honoring more decimal places than it shows for all things. For example, dividing a shape’s height by 3, then stacking 3 of them will produce a noticeably different height than the original. I am trying to do technical work on this app, but these rounding errors appear everywhere. The displayed number being rounded is a nuisance, but the actual miscalculations are a big problem. Quote
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