US Units for mastercam 2024

[JoshC]

when your installing mastercam your choices listed for units are now "US Units" and "metric", just wanted to make everyone aware because it makes no sense but even though some of us reported it i guess the microsoft gods won and everyone in the US i guess they expect works in inches. Just something to be aware of since im sure others will notice it with the install of 2024. not sure why US units made sense in anyones mind

[byte]

10 minutes ago, JoshC said:

when your installing mastercam your choices listed for units are now "US Units" and "metric", just wanted to make everyone aware because it makes no sense but even though some of us reported it i guess the microsoft gods won and everyone in the US i guess they expect works in inches. Just something to be aware of since im sure others will notice it with the install of 2024. not sure why US units made sense in anyones mind

They used to be called imperial units, but since England switched to the metric system the old name no longer makes sense,

Mastercam is a trend setter like that,

[JoshC]

in their defense i do see the scale in the bottom right of the software shows inch, so at least they got that scale units reading correctly or they had fixed that from the initial testing when we reported this. just makes no sense but its not a big deal  either way. nothing wrong with changing stuff just to change it i guess but the terminology is silly. no worries and more important things going on but it just makes me laugh a bit that this one that i reported fell through and got ignored when its such a silly thing to me. Someone must think much differently than myself and just likes to change stuff for the sake of change even when the change has  no benefit and in fact makes less sense

[AHarrison1]

54 minutes ago, JoshC said:

not sure why US units made sense in anyones mind

... makes you wander if  Myanmar or Liberia were even considered for naming of unit type 

[OVodov]

Hope the U.S. units will go to history soon.

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Just throw it on the fan.

[MWearne]

Not a fan of 'US' naming either. Guess there was only two of us making noise about it during beta? Everyone else must have loved it since it stayed.

Maybe the 'Metric' option needs to be changed to 'SI' since that is the standard naming used in ASME Y14.5M. That could be a 2025 update.

 

Just another change for the sake of making a change. Way too much of this going on in recent releases.

[byte]

U.S. units is more patriotic

ahh Josh u should have made it a pooll

[Jobnt]

33 minutes ago, MWearne said:

Just another change for the sake of making a change. Way too much of this going on in recent releases.

Gotta make the maintenance customers feel like they're getting their money's worth. 

24 minutes ago, byte said:

U.S. units is more patriotic

Considering the current crop of "leaders" in the US mayhaps Banana Republic units is more accurate. 

[gcode]

When I was in college in the mid 70's all my engineering classes (physics, chemistry, fluid mechanics etc etc)  were in taught in metric.

Our professors assured us that the US would be 100% metric by the early 80's at the latest.

I guess they meant the 2080's, not the 1980's

Once you get used to it, metric is a much simpler and more intuitive system to work with. 

[Aaron Eberhard]

[volitan71]

8 minutes ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

 

They should title it "Freedom Units" in red white and blue fonts

[Jobnt]

 

What?

 

Don't judge me.