There's also a certain resistance to metric in the UK. The move to metric on PCBs here isn't made any easier by the Protel autorouter making a mess of routing to pads not on a 1mil grid (he says, steering the message back on-topic :-). Hopefully the DXP router will cope with this, as well as following a few (more) design rules...
Regards, Andy Gulliver still grinning and bearing it (just!) > -----Original Message----- > From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 24 July 2002 15:52 > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] AW: was Speaking of Protel Bugs. < space and time > and ... > > > > OK, folks, I know metric is better. I was just joking. But seriously, it > is on-topic when you consider that some electronic parts are in > metric, and > some in Imperial (U.S. folks call Imperial "standard", because it IS our > standard). This unit stuff can cause lots of grief because of imprecision > in rounding/truncation for pad spacing. It can be very annoying when > creating parts from a metric datasheet, and then manually routing in an > Imperial snap grid. I don't have any answer for this other than > to grin and > bear it. > > The U.S. has more inertia against metric than any other country. We will > probably never change to metric. Sometime last year I was discussing a > mechanical issue about an electronic assembly fastener with my father (a > mech engineer). He asked me "It's not some damned non-standard metric > thread, is it?" That's no joke, he really said it. LOL. > > In the U.S., NEVER talk meters, celsius, etc. to anyone except other > engineers. They will look at you as if you are some alien from > outer space. > And you are, because you're an engineer... > > Best regards, > Ivan Baggett > Bagotronix Inc. > website: www.bagotronix.com > [cut] ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: 86E67A9425338341AE97AEE5B506E191547438A3 * ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
