• GrumbleGrim
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    1 year ago

    Oh really? So if I send blueprints to a steel fabricator in metric, they will not have a problem with that? Lol try again.

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      1 year ago

      Um, they wouldn’t have a problem with that. That’s exactly what I used to do, fabricate steel parts for companies like Liebherr and Komatsu, who would send us blueprints in metric. My coworkers and I actually preferred it.

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        1 year ago

        I’m talking about architectural steel. Not mechanical engineering, structural. I-beams.

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      1 year ago

      They’ll only have a problem if you don’t label your units or say somewhere what they are. And if you don’t do that, that isn’t an imperial vs metric problem, that’s flat out bad engineering.

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        1 year ago

        You clearly have never worked with structural steel fabricators.