On Tuesday 24 May 2005 2:29 am, Adrian Bowyer wrote:
> I use 1 AoI unit = 1 mm. But it's easy to scale things, of course.
That's a good idea. I was thinking this morning of "building" a bird house
from standard 1x lumber, which over here is 3/4" thick. If I said that one
AoI unit was 1/100th of an inch, I could have 75 units = 3/4 inches. (That
may not be practical, but it's the concept, anyway.)
Perhaps, as I get to know the tool better, I'll discover something that's
already there, but if not, maybe a plug-in could be written to do scale
conversions. I'm assuming that someday we'll need defined precision. In the
meantime, convention will do. I suppose that instead of 1 AoI unit = 1/100th
of an inch, I could think in terms of 1 AoI unit = 1/254th of an inch. The
arithmetic would be just a bit annoying, but the project would convert to
metric more easily.
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