Something fishy with the 1/16 measurements

[Andreas Pedersen]

At the 5:55 time stamp, we try to use the -1/16 measure directly in the move operation, but both in the video and inside my Blender 4.2.1 this gives me a -.13362″ measurement. While the -1/16 measure when using the Move window gives me -0.0625″. I am not used to the Imperial system, and I might have confussed myself. But this seems like it is not the intended behavior/measure ?

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Andreas @Andreassigcg ,

Well spotted!

That seems to be a Bug in Blender; when you start typing a Division in the Move (with G), it writes 1/ as 1/1 and then 1/16 becomes 1/116:

[Andreas Pedersen]

Thank you Martin! 

It was bugging me that I couldn’t understand why it behaved like that. 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Actually, Andreas,

it is apparently not a Bug. The Manual says:

So the correct input would have been: G, Z, 16, /, -. Or: G, Z, 16, -, /.

More than 12 years of using Blender and I learn that now 😃

[Dwayne Savage]

If you want to use fractions in blender I always tell them to use advance mode. To switch to advanced mode just press = after you start your transforms. So for 1/16 would be GZ=-1/16. Also advance mode allows math operations. 

[Sascha Feider]

I agree with Dwayne. The advanced mode is so powerful yet it seems to be so underappreciated.

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