Precision Issues when zooming in / line gaps

[kizaerf]

Problem: When I zoom way in, lines that I thought were overlapping have a slight gap. This normally wouldn't be a problem but I am planning on importing the drawing to sketchup, which will make my life a lot harder unless all of the lines overlap exactly.

 

i am not sure why this is happening, when I drew it, I make sure that it is snapping correctly. I am snapping to the following: endpoint, midpoint, center, node, intersection, extension yet still am constantly running into this problem

 

Despite all of this, the lines are slightly off. The precision is set at 1/2 inch so why would it be off by 1/32 inch??? since I set my percision to 1/2 inch, if they are off by less than that, it will say it isn't off, but visually it is.

 

So my questions are:

 

1. Is there a gap tolerance for sketchup so when I import it, It will ignore/not register the gaps to a certain extent/precision?

 

2.Is there a way to set not only the dimension units to a certain precision (UNITS command), but the actual drawing? for example, if the precision is 1/2 inch, ideally it won't let me draw a line that is 1 and 1/8th of an inch, for instance.

 

3. Is there a way to set it so it won't zoom in infinitely?

[BIGAL]

1 ?

 

2 Set your precision by using the dimension style parameters.

 

3 ?

[SLW210]

1. Not that I recall.

 

2. -DWGUNITS (use the hyphen in front). Dimension Units and Precision have nothing to do with how accurately you can draw, if you are snapping correctly, there should be no gaps. The precision is just what you see when using the Dimension command or Distance, etc. If you draw accurately you will not see any gaps.

 

3. Don't zoom infinitely.

 

 

P.S. You can use Pedit>Join>Set a Fuzz Factor to connect or Fillet with 0 Radius to join as well depending on what you have and want.

 

Post a drawing and someone can look at it.