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Re: Other: converting feet to millimetres etc in E
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 10/2/2007, 4:23 am
In Response To: Re: Other: converting feet to millimetres etc in E (Tom Yost)

: I built 2 woodstrip Baidarka's using the metric (cm) offsets from David
: Zimmerly's surveys, and I have plans for a Dudley Dix "Didi 26" (
: South Africa)
: that uses both metric and imperial measurements.

: My CAD has a bug that only alows it to display feet ( decimal). That's pretty
: useless so I convert by calculator or spreadsheet to metric for plotting the
: offsets. I like using metric for offsets, but still use Imperial for other
: measurements such as spacing and stringer calculations.

: Since it's time consuming to do the manual conversion and then manually
: create
: an offsets page (graphics) in the manual, I usually opt to pass the mundane
: conversion task on to builders since some want metric and others Imperial
: ( feet / inches) :)

: Tom

Hi Tom,

Yahoo has a metric converter that's pretty quick. I just made an offset table like yours and filled in the numbers in cm and out popped the correct conversion in inches, easy :)

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Other: converting feet to millimetres etc in EXCEL
David, Tasmania -- 9/30/2007, 4:14 am
Re: Other: converting feet to millimetres etc in E
Andy Waddington -- 10/3/2007, 12:36 pm
btw, best one olnine
Acors -- 10/2/2007, 3:51 pm
Re: btw, best one olnine
Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/2/2007, 6:55 pm
Re: Other: converting feet to millimetres etc in E
John Monroe -- 9/30/2007, 4:59 am
Metric soapbox OT
PGJ -- 10/1/2007, 2:17 pm
Re: Metric soapbox OT
Andy Waddington -- 10/3/2007, 11:48 am
Re: Metric soapbox OT
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 10/3/2007, 12:12 pm
Re: Metric soapbox OT
Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/3/2007, 2:12 pm
Re: Metric soapbox OT
Andy Waddington -- 10/4/2007, 4:45 am
Re: Metric soapbox OT
Robert N Pruden -- 10/1/2007, 11:40 pm
Re: Metric soapbox OT
Acors -- 10/2/2007, 12:37 pm
Re: Metric soapbox OT
Robert N Pruden -- 10/2/2007, 9:04 pm
Re: Metric soapbox OT
Mike Braun -- 10/1/2007, 7:43 pm
Si ! Oui ! Yes ! OT
Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/2/2007, 12:05 pm
Re: Other: converting feet to millimetres etc in E
Bill Hamm -- 10/1/2007, 2:13 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 10/1/2007, 11:38 pm
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Acors -- 10/2/2007, 12:32 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 10/2/2007, 8:57 pm
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Mike Savage -- 10/2/2007, 5:24 am
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David, Tasmania -- 10/2/2007, 2:26 am
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Acors -- 10/1/2007, 2:51 pm
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John Monroe -- 10/2/2007, 5:43 am
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Tom Yost -- 10/1/2007, 9:49 am
Re: Other: converting feet to millimetres etc in E
Bill Hamm -- 10/2/2007, 4:23 am
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Tom Yost -- 10/2/2007, 10:16 am
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GeirB -- 9/30/2007, 7:31 am
I forgot something
David, Tasmania -- 9/30/2007, 4:17 am