diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 378593f4..7cb74b1b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ CHANGELOG for FlatCAM beta
 - yet another fix for Shapely 2.0 deprecation warnings
 - updated the `join_geometry` and `join_excellon` Tcl commands format to follow the format of other commands
 - updated the `isolate`, `cutout` and `geocutout` Tcl commands and now they yield multigeo Geometry objects
+- fixed an issue in `panelize` Tcl command where the some parameters (`spacing_columns` and `spacing_rows` where forced into integers where correct was to keep them as floats)
 
 30.01.2022
 
diff --git a/tclCommands/TclCommandPanelize.py b/tclCommands/TclCommandPanelize.py
index 5e98109d..0d1c768c 100644
--- a/tclCommands/TclCommandPanelize.py
+++ b/tclCommands/TclCommandPanelize.py
@@ -135,12 +135,12 @@ class TclCommandPanelize(TclCommand):
             threaded = False
 
         if 'spacing_columns' in args:
-            spacing_columns = int(args['spacing_columns'])
+            spacing_columns = float(args['spacing_columns'])
         else:
             spacing_columns = 5
 
         if 'spacing_rows' in args:
-            spacing_rows = int(args['spacing_rows'])
+            spacing_rows = float(args['spacing_rows'])
         else:
             spacing_rows = 5