"Rich Webb" <bbew.ar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:31:42 GMT, "jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
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>>"Rich Webb" <bbew.ar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 06:18:05 GMT, Joe Lauton ...........
>>>>Everything is a default non-English units I assume.
>>>
>>> Well, a one is a one is a one. The default dimensioning alternate unit
>>> is set up as if the primary unit is inches and the alternate,
>>> millimeters.
>>>
>>If I draw a line 1000 long in decimal units it's 83'-4" (1000") when
units
>>are changed to architectural, but I have had Autocad dwgs in the past
>>which
>>had to be scaled 25.4 to use in our metric system. I think the program
>>defaults to decimal but it's simple to change the default - it's only
the
>>units setting which is affected.
>>
>
> Ahh -- you're right. Shows how often I use architectural units, eh? ;-)
>
We use metric all the time, Australia changed about 1970 which was about
when I was starting work, so imperial never seems far away and we still
use
many common items, threads especially, made to imperial units. If the US
had
changed it might have become a metric world but it's a minor mess and
probably created by idiot politicians. The single thing which bugs me most
was we lost 3/4 scale and its variants - the metric system has nothing
between 1/2 and full size which is really stupid. My work is most often
1=50
or 1=100, 1=75 would very often be ideal but it's not available.
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