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This may provide some insight for the Inkscape developers on how they can add accurate dimensions to their draw program. Autodesk understands dimensioning and precision. Most draw programs have poor or nonexistent tools for dealing with units and dimensions.

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In what way? I use Inkscape on the regular and have never had any problems with dimensions or precision (although sometimes I do have to create and position a guide and use it to set certain things, like bezier curve control points)

That's because vectors are unitless. I've had to constantly explain this to graphic designers I've worked with...

SVG can represent vectors with units of "in", "mm", or "px". Inkscape only does "px", which means it's for drawing pretty pictures. There's no fundamental reason it couldn't support real units, but it doesn't.

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