Adding a second window to GH ?

[Alison]

I to use both, but as I said it is now most unusual to see general drawings in imperial only measurements.

My sketches are much more likely to say 6" than 150mm but I never want to be thought of as standard ��

[Potstubsdustbins]

Depends on how accurate you need to be.

I do a lot of scale model boat building and the two are not easily interchangeable. So if I am using old imperial plans I work purely in imperial down to thou's. If its a modern plan I work purely in metric down to tenths of a mill.

I just find it so much easier than trying to convert at that level.

[Alison]

Depends on how accurate you need to be.

I do a lot of scale model boat building and the two are not easily interchangeable. So if I am using old imperial plans I work purely in imperial down to thou's. If its a modern plan I work purely in metric down to tenths of a mill.

I just find it so much easier than trying to convert at that level.

Indeed, same with cooking and weights, best to stick with one or the other for the entire recipe.

I do however have to convert a lot at work as the original plant will have probably been built to standard imperial sizes and the new to metric - but then there will be a bit of process equipment from the U.S. which will be in inches again. I've just got used to it but it did confuse a Turkish colleague no end

[Potstubsdustbins]

Sorry I had to smile, just the thought of someone from a totally foreign back ground like that poor person trying to convert metric to imperial or visa versa. I wonder what they would make of furlongs, chains and pecks.

[Kristen]

I'm sure you good folks know this, but Google is happy to do the unit conversion for you (and if you have, say, Chrome then it will do the calculation in the predictive-text popup select-list)

2 inches in mm =

(2 + 1/16) inches in mm =

4 inches + 3 mm in cm =

and so on ...

[Alison]

Sorry I had to smile, just the thought of someone from a totally foreign back ground like that poor person trying to convert metric to imperial or visa versa. I wonder what they would make of furlongs, chains and pecks.

I know, the poor guy. It didn't help that he (not unreasonably) assumed that 2' 10" was 2.1 foot. He almost cried when somebody had explained as he had to start from scratch. He wasn't good with the use of weird local datums either - although I'm now more worried that auto correct tried to correct datums to dating!