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On 2/10/2016 9:56 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> In my humble opinion mixing metric with imperial is not a a compromise but
> worse than strictly sticking to imperial.
>
> ---<)kaimartin(>---

Nonsense.

Imperial / metric.  They are both arbitrary and as far as EDA goes there 
is no fundamental reason for either being better.

What they did with PCB using thou/mm's is brilliant.  Why shouldn't the 
computer be used to solve for these little problems that nobody wants to 
face?

AND you get to interface to your imperial chassis hole pattern with 
ease, or your metric chassis hole pattern with ease.

Awesome, and it's now native to PCB.

Phil