As a metrically-inclined person, ever since I started CNC I have found myself using an awkward system which goes something like this:
- 1/4" and 1/8" are the sizes of those round thingies I use in my spindle. 6.35mm and 3.175mm sound like nice, round numbers to me now.
- I manipulate the 0.001" (chipload) value all the time but my brain refuses to picture that as a dimension I can relate to.
- For Stock to leave I use fractions of a mm because I can picture how much that is.
- Feedrate values only sound familiar in inches per minute for some reason.
- For long dimensions and dimensioning anything in Fusion I’ll use millimeters
- whenever someone mentions any other value, I give up and launch the Windows calculator. I have divided or multiplied by 25.4 there so many times that if this was a physical calculator, the “2”, “5,”." and “4” keys would be completely worn out.
- just mention 3/8" or 7/16" and I end up in a mental deadlock.
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