I’m trying to accurately set up my cut pieces for wood panel, but noticed that the math doesn’t add up on my model. i have a piece that’s 34" wide and i have planks coming in 1.5 inches from the sides so the middle should be 31 inches. However, sketchup is showing 31 and 1/8". What can i do here? j…

[image] Sketchup limits SketchUp Sketchup’s accuracy never changes, only the display precision. It can display to 6 decimal places of a mm if you want. How you set the display precision is up to you and how you are working. Too course and it will round up and not show ac…

Hmmm, i set my precision to 1/8"

Ok, i put it down to 1/16 and i see, it was rounding like you said! I had no idea… now my model is all messed up !

Just to be clear, it hasn’t messed your model up, it is showing you more accurately what you modeled.

there are two ways of drawing in SU : either you do it by hand, and trust the value it gives you (and you end up with rounding errors by accident) or you type. The only way to be sure your values are good is to type them. even if it’s simple, like 3", depending on your parameters you might end up…

I'm having trouble with SketchUp accurately sizing my pieces

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