On 1/27/2012 8:24 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:

"Ed wrote in message ...


Job shops still get a mess of both measures, and they're the ones who
have a right to be ****ed off about it. Otherwise, it's not really a
problem. And keep in mind that our dimensions for length are in
decimal units for most technical things, anyway. It matters little
whether you start with a meter or with an inch if you do that, as long
as you don't have to keep converting. And with computer controls, you
just push a button even for that.

For those reasons, it's mostly a tempest in a teapot. There are some
good reasons to go all-metric, but there are few people who would even
notice.


When I worked as a QA Inspector in a sheet metal shop, one of our
customers was a German owned company. Some of the drawings received from
them had both metric and U.S. dimensions on the same drawing.