Sheet size seems to be off

Your working units are set to survey inches which like survey feet is slightly different from the international foot see:

https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/8953/the-difference-between-us-survey-foot-and-international-foot#:~:text=The%20difference%20between%20an%20International,insignificant%20for%20most%20relative%20distances.

Your working units are set to survey inches which like survey feet is slightly different from the international foot see:

https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/8953/the-difference-between-us-survey-foot-and-international-foot#:~:text=The%20difference%20between%20an%20International,insignificant%20for%20most%20relative%20distances.

Thanks David

I did come across that post in my travels but was hoping that MicroStation wasn't trying to do a conversion to paper.  My design model space has to be in US Survey feet (until we change in 2022) for the references that we use but i wanted to set up a sheet space with the same units just to stay consistent but i guess not

Brian

I guess my question is - in terms of sheet size, does 8 decimal places really matter?

I can understand that level of precision for survey, but in terms of a plotted paper size that should be negligible enough to not matter. I can't even think what 0.00005 of an inch would come out to on a printed sheet.

In all practicality you are right, it does not matter but i have had prints not print because the paper size did not match a pre-configuration.  With everything digital and taken out the Nth degree (but truncated for your viewing pleasure) I can see a potential for a stupid hang up down the road.

I'll live with the referenced models being slightly off because they got referenced into an Inches sheet instead of a US Survey Inches sheet.

But why should it NOT be as accurate as possible?
I am an advocate for draughting accurately at all times, and sometimes, sequence can play a part in how accurate the resultant becomes.
But the major bugbear is when I create a new SHEET and I start in a DESIGN MODEL, the units transfer across to the SHEET.
I know we can set up seed templates to use, and IMPORT, but users get caught out, such as this case above, with the MODEL units becoming the SHEET units by default.
Not a smart methodology, and Bentley could add a screen to ask for the units when setting up the SHEET. IMO.