Thought I would start a thread with this handy chart. Never seen these side by side before.
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Fractions
Thought I would start a thread with this handy chart. Never seen these side by side before.
The decimal point seems to be the most important on the z axis... x & y not so much....
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Been teaching Cadd for years and never have I seen this before.
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“Been teaching Cad for years and never have I seen this before…”
We sure used them when I was teaching mechanical drawing!
SG
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With mm and in on the same chart?
Can say I never really looked it is just one click to convert from the two.
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Kyle…
There was a time when we taught students that “metric” was the future… A lot of emphasis was put on all things MM. I think we spent so much time with conversions that students never really got a feel for how “big” a millimeter was!
SG
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i have these charts all over my shop, starette packages them with some of thier precision measuring tools, and the mouse pad that came with my shopbot has it to.
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My SB mouse pad only has imperial fractions and their decimal equivalents on. There aren't any metric equivalents on it.
Do they do another one?
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Nope, that's it. You can find them on the internet though and just print and laminate it for protection. A lot of supplier catalogs have them in the book too like Hafele.
If you would like I also have a little conversion program Blum used to have available. Send me your e-mail and I'll let you have it. It goes both ways.
There's probably free phone apps too, although I haven't looked.
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When I was in grade 7 or 8 the Canadian Govt switched the entire country of Canada to metric. WTF! I still never really got used to it. That was 35-40 years ago... Temperature in Celsius, weight in Kilos, gas in liters, mm; cm; meters etc. The sign trade still does most things in inches and feet though.Originally Posted by steve_g
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I can't remember exactly where i've seen something like this...hmmmm
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