On Nov 14 2012 3:36 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 14 November 2012 08:07, Chris Morley <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This doesn't seem right to me. >> I would think toggling DRO between imperial and metric >> would display the same physical distance just in two >> different scales. It seems this is not the case. > > That would be what I expected too. > > I recently noticed that the internal representation of absolute > machine position inside the code is metric. > Chris R then mentioned that this is not the case inside Axis, where > the absolute machine position is kept in Imperial.
just a thought, but for LinuxCNC3 maybe we should specify that all further internal work be in standard SI Units. There is a reason that NASA did this after a previous mars rover crashed. The standard UI could still be set to Imperial if people wanted. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
