How to Check if MS is 1:1

[dbroada]

I was imperial at school but the UK changed the year I started my apprenticeship. I still think in a mixture of metric and imperial but prefer metric.

 

The engineering world went to mm but for some reason most people use cm! Actually we have a very odd mix of units in the UK. Distances are miles, lengths in meters. Most weights are kg but pounds are still to be found. Fuel consumption is in mpg but you can't buy fuel in gallons!

 

The base unit of drawings should suit the item. Like dawn much of our work is around 19" panels so mm is a good base. I'd hate to be dimensioning bracket 0,025m wide by 0,0015m thick.

[ziemerd]

Good advice Dave.

 

When I was in grade school here in America they decided to start switching everything over to metric so we were taught the metric system but too many people opposing the change. In high school it was back to Standard.

 

Funny thing is now that everything is global we're having to do things in metric to keep in step with our cousins across the pond. It gets confusing sometimes.

[Tiger]

 

The engineering world went to mm but for some reason most people use cm! Actually we have a very odd mix of units in the UK. Distances are miles, lengths in meters. Most weights are kg but pounds are still to be found. Fuel consumption is in mpg but you can't buy fuel in gallons!

 

one could go nuts for less!