--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Brian Sidebotham
brian.sidebot...@... wrote:
2009/7/8 einazaki668 einazaki...@...:
In the PCB tool (and module editor) I think it'd be a good idea
to use hard metric when in metric mode, rather than the metrified
english as it's now done.
TIA,
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, al davis a...@... wrote:
On Thursday 09 July 2009, Robert wrote:
America is the last country
in the world where engineers prefer to use them.
American engineers don't prefer traditional units. It's the
non-engineers.
When speaking of inches you have
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, einazaki668 einazaki...@...
wrote:
In the PCB tool (and module editor) I think it'd be a good idea
to use hard metric when in metric mode, rather than the metrified
english as it's now done.
TIA,
eric
Well, I am a dope. There is a hard metric grid
I would agree if it wasn't for the fact that everything else in the
engineering world is specified in metric, and PCB's don't live in a
bubble isolated from that metric world. Now that electronic components
are (finally) going metric, having PCB software that doesn't work well
in metric is
Not true. I'm an American engineer, and I prefer English units for certain
applications (and metric for others).
1) The proper name is English units. It has nothing to do with the present
practices of England, the country; that's where they originated from, so that's
what they're called.
Actually, the correct terminology is Imperial units, not English.
And mils is actually a unit of angle.
the correct terminology for 1/1000 of an inch is thousandth or thou.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Dan dan...@wolstenholme.net wrote:
Not true. I'm an American engineer, and I prefer
Many people here would refer to English units as Imperial measurements.
They also go back much further than the Empire...
They are a very natural unit for people to work in, which is why they are
still used.
Pounds, ounces, yards (an arms length)., miles, stones, feet (on the end
of your leg),
Dan wrote:
1) The proper name is English units. It has nothing to do with the present
practices of England, the country; that's where they originated from, so
that's what they're called. They're not Roman units (how ridiculous),
because the Romans didn't have inches. This is just like how
No, the correct terminology for 1/1000 of an inch is mil. There's countless
PCB manufacturers who agree with me on this, so I'll take their word on it.
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_(length)
According to this, mil is the older term, and was only
You hit the nail on the head
'In the United States'...
I have always used thousandth or thou, and I grew up in England. where the
dimension was probably first used.
However, it's kind of ironic, that in the US, the prefix 'mil' is used,
since the _preferred_ SI units are all
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