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hole placement error

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I have a hole that was called by the mechanical drawing to be at .1563" when I assign that coordinate Eagle gives me .15629995" - why can't it simply let me place it where I want? I'll admit this is a VERY trivial error, but it IS still an error. If I assign dimension values that are multiples of .000125" everything is okay.

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    John Knittle wrote on Fri, 24 January 2014 10:20

    I have a hole that was called by the mechanical drawing to be at

    .1563"

    when I assign that coordinate Eagle gives me .15629995" - why can't it

    simply let me place it where I want? I'll admit this is a VERY trivial

    error, but it IS still an error. If I assign dimension values that are

    multiples of .000125" everything is okay.

     

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    From the manual

     

    EAGLE performs its internal calculations using a basic grid size of

    0,00325 μm (about 0.000123 mil).

     

    So, your .1563" gets converted to the nearest internal unit (metric) and

    then the units are calculated back to inches when it needs to be displayed

    in inches.

     

    HTH

    Warren

     

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