![]() ![]() To be fair, converting to metric/SI units is "a great solution" for everyone except the US.Įven in the US, the only reason to use US Customary* units would be if you're expecting to interconnect with other things measured that way - metric is so much easier to manipulate that the inconvenience of not yet being instinctively familiar with how big a metre or a kilo is is fairly rapidly swept away by the convenience of not having to convert to barely related units randomly (or go for the alternatives like measuring boats in units of hundreds of thousands of pounds or the like) R/flossCAD (for r/CAD refugees) r/LibreCAD r/OpenSCAD r/SolveSpace r/SweetHome3d r/opensource r/blender Participate on the forums Showcase your best work Support FreeCADįreeCAD Team ( LiberaPay | ( Patreon | Libera ) Arch core-dev kkremitzki ( Patreon | Libera ) Debian/Ubuntu Packaging & Dev-Ops ( PP | Patreon | Libera ) Building Assembl圓 sliptonic ( Flattr ) Path WB contributor Related LinksįreeCAD Thingiverse Group Related Subreddits Squash bugs + Contribute requested features Side-by-side comparison with Fusion360 Side-by-side comparison with Solidworks Transitioning from Solidworks Side-by-side comparison with Onshape Official Linksīugtracker ( link) Please follow guidelinesįacebook ( link) IRC, Gitter, and Matrix Contributeĭocumentation via the wiki ( request access)īugtracker triage (+ test Pull Requests/patches) Quick-start Tutorial: What is Parametric Design Quick-start Tutorial: Make a Laser Cut Box Sketcher Workbench for Beginners Parametric Design using the Spreadsheet WB The Sheet Metal Workbench Learn FreeCAD for CNC Compared with other CAD Solutions Of course it's pretty easy to program, but I'd prefer to have the functions accessible directly from the keyboard.A FOSS Parametric 3D CAD + Python API Want to Learn FreeCAD, Where to start? ![]() Perhaps this function set would be a nice addition to the Prime. I am not much of a 34S fanboy for other uses, but I feel that it can't be beaten for fraction handling of imperial unit measures. All of these commands are on the keyboard (with an f-shift for the IP function) so you don't have to menu-dive to find them. Then use XY to toggle back to the inches/fraction measurement, or (IP (integer part),12,*,-) if you wish. I don't think that it will display feet, however, a few keystrokes (, 12, /) could tell you how many feet are in your measurement. I find this incredibly useful and thus I have two of them one in the shop and one in office. If the answer is non-exact, it gives the closest approximation, and indicates if the approximation is slightly-more-than or slightly-less-than the exact answer. That way when I add or subtract several measurements, the answer is always in a usable number format, rather than some wild fraction that I have to convert to 16ths, 32nds or 64ths. With the 34S, I can force the denominator to display numbers no larger than 64 (or whatever number I find useful), and also force them to be in powers of 2 if I wish. For example in woodworking I feel pretty comfortable making measurements and marking lines in 1/64" increments. I find the WP-34S very useful in this regard. "Enferradura" gets you a blank look that needs no translation.Īddendum: do you ever break your 25 foot tenths-on-one-side/inches-on-the-other tape? I did regularly and i'd cut the remainder into 24 one foot pieces, then hand them out as "converters". The contractor's crew will love you and they pass around much better food at lunch that the engineers. Arguing with 5000 years of linguistic development gets one nowhere. Nails, towers, and bananas are male, and proud of it. Don't ask anyone why all the El and La garbage. ![]() Don't ask me why no one knows the word for manhole and sidewalk is la forma masculina of steel. When you come back you'll be able to talk the Espanglish they do on the construction sites. Go there in our winter when you're not working anyway, climb mountains, drink Pilsen and Cristal, float down the Amazon, don't hang around with gringos, fall in love with at least one woman who speaks slowly and clearly. Kyak and CheapOair find affordable tickets to Latin America. The Spanish language part of your problem has another, better solution. I started out by modifying an HP41 PPC rom program to only take eighths and only output hundredths, but that got to be rote fast. If it was necessary to the carpenters to give their info in feet/inch/fractions, I'd convert in my head. I always entered the inches & fractions from the low-talent drawings in their decimal feet equivalences. ![]()
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