[email protected] wrote: > Reducing metric to a decimal system only,is missing the point. > The metric system is BASE TEN. An important distinction from imperial. > The units of both metric and imperial could be considered arbitrary as > most seem to change with refinement and our ability to divide and measure > to greater precision. > > You know a 1/4 hector is a good size for a garden! > > Just my two cents (US Money gets to base ten before the amount becomes > significant;-) > > Cal Grandy > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > But what difference does base 10 make to a guy running a cnc machine?? I'm sure it makes a difference from some scientific perspective but we are making parts. It seems to me that it is the job of engineers, designers and scientist to design them. After that his job is to discribe in the best possible way and dimension and draw them in such a way that we as machinists, can make them. It is not important how he would like to do it but only that he can get his ideas across to the person who is going to make the parts. The moment the communication becomes about the designer's preferences the connection is lost quality goes down and cost goes up. No matter how great the engineer if he does not comunicate in the best possible way the machinist or machine operators all need to go get a degree. It is all about communication and what ever system communicates the best is the answer. This is at least how it seems to me. The burden is on the communicator to make his wants understood. A qualified machinist should be able to look at a drawing a few minutes and only look back at the drawing now and then to check a dimention. I feel I have worn this subject out. I'm sure others do not see this from my point of view at all and so this is only my perspective. Doug
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