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.
QuixoticgeekA5 at risk of an actual sensible answer today. After too many drawings where workshop dirt blurred part of the dimension, so you can't see if the part should be 75mm or 75cm. I now stick to only using 1000 multiples. So m, mm, um, etc... this then provides context. A 75m length doesn't fit in the lathe, it has to be 75mm. Even if the unit part of the drawing is completely obscured by oil or coffee... That and only using sensible unit systems, provides for error checking
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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)@quixoticgeek @MakersHour smart. I have never forgiven crystallography for sticking to Ångstrom (10-10 m) units when nm (10-9) is used in so many related areas, nor IR spectroscopy for using inverse centimeters.