This message was meant to be sent to the server, but was sent to Dennis only by mistake, Han -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet: donderdag 26 oktober 2000 08:52 Betreff: Re: [USMA:8761] Re: Savings in metricating construction? If the unit to be used for the size of pipes is agreed, the mm, then workers in metric countries do not need to use the inch. They can and should be able to say just 'a fifty pipe' or something like that. In France they often say 'un treize' for 1/2 inch pipe. Metric users should keep off the slippery slope to ifp! One could just as well blame the metric system for the inferior metric options that the software industry so often offers. 0.1 inch becomes a standard size of exactly 2.54 mm in their so-called metric mode. Corel Draw give such bad options. I would nearly think that they want to force metric users to adopt their easier and rational ifp settings. Or the ifp resolutions are good and the metric ones are coarse. And what about a 'metric' ruler working with 2.54 cm increments? Who would ever want to use such garbage? Either you adopt ifp, or better, you boycott such programs and demand that they offer good rational hard metric options and resolutions and not soft converted trash. BTW, Corel is a Canadian company, and yet its programs default to to good ifp modes and its metric options are inferior. As I see it, the problem with construction in the US is mainly about standardized parts. When British building went metric, it was able to bring back the number of window sizes from more than 100 to about 35 standard sizes. Han Dennis wrote: "Pipe is not a modular part, so is not an issue. And 2" pipe is called 50 mm pipe, not 50.8 mm. The actual dimensions vary from 46 to 52 mm, depending on the type of pipe, so 50.8 mm is falsely precise. Pipe size is a name, not something that workers physically measure. But even in metric countries, people often call it "two inch" (2 syllables) because that's 3 times shorter and easier than "fifty millimeters" (6 syllables).
