2009/6/12 Douglas Pollard <dougp...@verizon.net>: > But what difference does base 10 make to a guy running a cnc machine??
Absolutely none at all. The numbers are just numbers, and it doesn't matter what the units are as they are always [length] There does seem to be a little confusion inside EMC between /second and /minute rates. I think the stepconf wizard is all in /second and Axis and the interpreter use /minute for feeds and speeds. The SI system is significantly simpler when it comes to mixed-unit calculations as it is a consistent system. For example power is exactly torque x speed rather than needing a constant term (and as long as you measure speed in rad/sec) It is not without it's own historical issues, though. The base unit of mass is the kg. Ideally this should be renamed to either be a gram (which would cause confusion) or be given a new name without the spurious "kilo" Personally I do "science" in metric, as that is what we were taught at school. However I tend to make things in Imperial because when I was a kid "helping" my dad in his home workshop everything there is imperial. Similarly with building their house, we use imperial to simplify communications. Despite being a metric country (the UK) the only legal unit for beer is Pints, and road signs are mandated to be in miles, speed limits in mph and junction warnings in yards. We buy fuel in litres now, though, so I think of fuel consumption in miles per litre. -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
