MakersHourQuestionsQ5: This ‘dishcloth’ thing came about from my misreading last week. What funny or confusing misreadings, potential or actual, have you had in your making? Instructions, measurements, or whatever you casually read during your projects.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)@MakersHour Q5. Does it count as a misreading to load a CAD design in imperial units that was designed in metric or vice versa? I think this was why I had so much trouble finding the right size bolt-handle-knob-thing that one time I wanted to print one to keep in my bike toolkit. #MakersHour
Relatedly: supposedly standard measurements that mean different things across languages and regions (e.g. US/UK/metric "cup" all being different).
diyelectromusic@iris @MakersHour The worst case of that I finally caught up with recently is the naming of SMD components - two numbers for the dimensions, but some are the same numbers in both imperial and metric! I mean... really!?