[Is it possible to reset Cura from mm to inches?]

On 6/13/2019 at 5:51 AM, geert_2 said:

 

I thought all countries world-wide had switched to the metric system?

 

The UK has switched gradually, with the latest units changed around the year 2000, I think? Today in the UK the old imperial units are only allowed for "drinking and driving", as one Englishman said on another forum. (=for road signs and beer bottle labels). But correct me if this info is incorrect.  :-)

 

The USA has officially adopted the metric system in 1875 (yes, 18..., not 19...), although most politicians, government officials, and press people are not aware of this. So they keep converting these metric units back to imperail units for "convenience", although it is very inconvenient for them, and it slows down conversion in everyday life. This causes big headaches for US-technicians, engineers, industry, and all other internationally oriented businesses.

 

I thought the handfull remaining countries in Africa and Asia, previous English colonies, had also switched recently, except maybe Burma/Myanmar?

 

Although in daily life people tend to keep using their old habits of course, just like we still use horse-power for cars instead of kilowatt. I guess because the number in horse-power is 1.3x higher than in kilowatt, so it sounds more impressive.  :-)

 

This really could not be further from the truth.  US mechanical engineers design in ANSI units of measurements.  If you go into a engineering lab in the US you find 4-40 you don't find m3.  Certain industries are almost exclusively ANSI units.  Aerospace for example, a majority of systems are in ANSI units.  Boeing, Collins, Honeywell, Raytheon, Lockheed, etc, etc, etc all ANSI.  Airbus who integrates many of these systems takes them in ANSI.  The joke is there's two type of units in engineering, the ones that have sent people to the moon and everyone else.