# Trailing zeros in drawings / dimension settings

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/trailing-zeros-in-drawings-dimension-settings/40496>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [March 16, 2026, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/trailing-zeros-in-drawings-dimension-settings/40496 "2026-03-16T17:43:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Luca439](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Luca439](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Luca439)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/trailing-zeros-in-drawings-dimension-settings/40496/1 "2026-03-16T17:43:27Z")

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Hi!

I’m having trouble to get my dimensioning in drawings right.

In the construction field I`m in, dimensions are shown this way;

If you have for example a wall that is 240cm = 2,40m, you write 2,40. If there’s only 40cm, you write 40. The “boarder” so to speak is 100cm.

Therefore it is important that a 4,00m (or centimeter in this case for 3d printing) long wall is written 4,00 and not 4 - otherwise it could be misinterpreted as 4cm. In this example chances for this to happen is slim, but there’s strict rules and therefore I want to have two trailing zeros in all dimensions. I can’t get the setting right tho. Could anyone please give me a hint what to do? I modeled a 1:100 model working in centimeters.

In the screenshot, I’d like it to show 12,40 , 4,00 , 8,00

I’m using an eductional license with an iPad on Software 26.32.

Any help is much appreciated!

Cheers

Luca

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**Author:** ![drivebydesign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@drivebydesign](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/drivebydesign)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 6:42pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/trailing-zeros-in-drawings-dimension-settings/40496/2 "2026-03-16T18:42:56Z")

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Tried to figure something out for you, though it seems that the 4 stays a 4.  
You can try and add suffixes individually (like 4 , 00 ) but that sounds rather unattractive.

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To do that doubleclick the numbers; perhaps you can do some stuff with the below 1meter values and some Prefix Text as well.

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**Author:** ![Luca439](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Luca439](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Luca439)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/trailing-zeros-in-drawings-dimension-settings/40496/3 "2026-03-22T18:24:33Z")

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Thank you very much for helping! I appreciate it. It’s not perfekt but works okay!