Aviation uses buttlines, stationlines, waterlines, lofting and the XYZ zero is a distance in front of the plane.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:09 PM, <cmg...@sover.net> wrote: >> 2009/6/12 Douglas Pollard <dougp...@verizon.net>: >> >>> But what difference does base 10 make to a guy running a cnc machine?? > > > The aviation industry stepped around the imperial system of linear > measurement by ONLY using inches and decimal portions of them. > Stations and waterlines! > > Don't civil engineers use a "foot" of ten "inches" in the US ? Perhaps > not any more> > > Cal > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > -- you can lead a person to knowledge but you cannot make him think ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
