Re: [Sailcut-users] Sailcut program - dimension change

[Robert L. <rob...@sa...>]

Dear All,

I suggest that 4 decimals is more than enough. On 1 square meter area it 
is 1 square centimeter accuracy.

I am going to update sailcut with that as soon as I have a Windows 
compiler... Meanwhile you can tweak the code.

Regards,
Robert LAINÉ

On 15/03/2017 23:11, pa...@tm... wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:40:12 +0100
> Miroslav <mi...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Don, this is exactly what I want to say for the sail area, I need more precision and more decimals and no matter in what scale, meter or centimetres are.
> Hi,
>
> You could always modify the program to suit your needs. That's the beauty of open source :) The area value is rounded in the last line of the Area() method of sailworker.cpp. If you change it from
>
>      return ( .01 * floor(surface /10000) );
>
> to
>
>      return ( .0001 * floor(surface /100) );
>
> that would give you 2 extra digits of precision - 4 in total. If that's not enough, changing it to
>
>      return ( .000001 * floor(surface ));
>
> would give you 6 digits of precision.
>
> Hope this helps
>