Trying to wrap my head around sheet setups
When I setup an Arch D sheet (24" x 36") the upper right corner does not hit 24.00000 x 36.00000 exactly and I was trying to understand what it was doing (see attached).
Is it just how Bentley made the sheets or is there a scaling issue going on?
Being a surveyor in New Jersey my default is to be in U.S. Survey Feet so it always throws minute scales into things
Brian
OpenRoads Designer 10.08.01.33
2020_SMG_Text-Dim.dgn
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
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.
MaryB
Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918Power InRoads 08.11.09.918OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2
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.