This is something that will never go away. I used to work at a company with
a standard  that all drawings were to be dimensioned in MM. All our designs
were done in microns, but the engineers all spoke in "mils".  It made for
interesting design reviews, but you eventually get used to it. 
 
One of the first things I ask a new customer is what units they prefer. If
it's inch I use line widths/spaces of 0.005, 0.010, etc. If they want metric
I use 0.125, 0.25, etc. It's interesting to see how much "metric data" I
received with values of  0.381, 0.254, 0.762, 1.016. 
 
Personally I prefer metric, but still buy beer buy the pint :)

Scott D. Riley
Technical Design Service
607-658-9322 - Office
607-785-1696 - FAX
 <http://www.techdesignservice.com/> www.techdesignservice.com

 

 

 

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