Yeah. The older machines needed you to manually convert before using that code, but it is a non-issue now as far as making things with cnc. Measuring, though? People get weird.

The yard is something born of convenience. It isn’t really used seriously outside of American football and spirit levels for some reason. And, you are right - there is no real significance to it. The vast majority of Americans ignore the yard outsideof very fast estimates for good reason, it needs 4 to fit the concept of 12.

I count in dozens. Three knuckles per finger, then one knuckle on the thumb per round. I count to 96 on my hands

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Actually, I’m in the mood to go on a rant here. You’re using the metric system incorrectly. The odds are that you will list something as ~900 mm. Be mad, whatever, but I’ve seen this kind of thing on literally thousands of prints. Sure, for formal precision reasons you’d list it that way. However, in my long career not a single person has used the feature of metric that should make it easy. Not a single person has ever mentioned deca/deci/hexa etc. meters. Ever. Metric is far and away objectively not simpler; most people just refuse to use it to its full potential to make it even easier by only thinking in 4 units (those being mm, cm, m, and 1km). Actually, metric technically has infinite units.

I’ve had a long professional career of measuring physical things. They’re both bad. Dozenal and fractional systems are objectively faster for building/making things. Decimal is better if you want to measure small things/amounts.

Then there’s the fact that ISO 9001 tolerances are much higher for metric listings. Yeah, it’s incredibly stupid that prints that are transferred from most places to the US and vice versa get converted twice from both systems. However, the 9001 standard for metric tolerances is usually +/- 0.05mm, which is 0.002". In my line of work that is a huge tolerance. Siemens Medical is the worst about this. They allow 0.381mm everywhere, which is 0.015". I’m not trying to say that US manufacturing is better, or vice versa. It’s just that both systems have ways of being awful.

No, I’m incredibly used to both, and that’s my point.

Sigh, I’m going to get downvoted to hell for this, I’m sure. After a 16 year career as a machinist in the US and having to easily change between both systems daily, one system is dozenal and fractional and one is decimal based. Dozenal and fractional are both easier and faster when you start thinking that way. A mile isn’t 1760 yards precisely, it’s 5,280 feet. 5,280 / 12 = 440. It’s dozenal. All units, and I mean all units are arbitrary. Someone just decided x means y. Whether it’s “this amount of silicon atoms is 1kg” or “this specific length of barley corn is 1 inch” - they’re both defined by a decision that someone (or a group) just kinda made.

It has given me ptsd. There was also the time a guy drilled his finger in half.

Look, I’m not going to sugar coat this. I have been a machinist for 16 years. I witnessed someone turning into mist via lathe. The entire company closed for a month. I wish I had problems like “Oh shit I pushed bad code to prod!”

Good jorb!

Not only is this not censorship, it is functionally a different word entirely. The spelling matters here.