• glitchdx@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    If you want to convert between imperial units, going straight from feet to miles is impractical. You’d be better off knowing the chart of survey units, and they’re all small numbers so they’re easy to remember.

    12 inches in a foot

    3 feet in a yard

    22 yards in a chain

    10 chains in a furlong

    8 furlongs in a mile

    Of course, i know this because I do 3d art in blender and refuse to set it to metric.

    • Rooty@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Of course, i know this because I do 3d art in blender and refuse to set it to metric.

      Did the metric system kill your family or something?

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        8 hours ago

        I know right? it’s such an intuitive system with a convenient unit for every scale you might want to work with.

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          8 hours ago

          I genuinely can‘t tell if you are being serious. Could you tell me at face value, I just want to know.

          • glitchdx@lemmy.world
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            3 hours ago

            yeah, it sucks. There’s no actual case for imperial over metric. it’s just what I’ve spent years getting used to and I’m not changing now.

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              2 hours ago

              The imperial units were created for practical every-day measuring, so if you know how to apply them, they still hold up to the task. Just more difficult to use for large data sets like architectural models etc.

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            4 hours ago

            I don’t know glitchdx from Adam, but I say with confidence that they were being sarcastic, and laying it on pretty thick.