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Originally Posted by Mindfulness
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.
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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).