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Old 11-20-2018, 11:52 AM   #177 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Mindfulness View Post
im in a class called "key principles of manufacturing" and the second half of the semester is on quality audit, so we are learning this stuff. i find it actually a bit difficult to read and convert into a decimal but i can do it. just slow for now at least. i get catch up reading the thimble scale. i guess the more i study it and mess around ill convert the numbers faster.

so you'd rather have a metric one? because the professor had one of those today and put it aside said we weren't messing with those.
Metric is easier. It's all increments of 10, whereas Imperial is 16th's/12th's and extremely antiquated.

I mostly used micrometers for 'As-Built' drawings, which is where you go measure a part and draw it up using CAD (or on a board if you're still working in the 1970's).
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