A Widescreen Blender-Style Interface

The exception is the one-off metric job

Shame on you Andy! In my world, there is nothing but metric. It took many years of pain to be able to think that way ..... but I now struggle with imperial units. I even had to buy a new set of metric feeler gauges to avoid thinking in thou's.

I agree with the configuration being one off and should not be in a GUI. I'm not sure that its included in all branches of Linuxcnc but in the external offsets branch, there is a SIM_PIN function that you can add into your INI file to expose key tuning parameters of your choosing in a separate window that allows you to play with any tuning parameter on the fly. Very useful.

Please avoid the temptation of scope creep just because something sounds cool.

* Added Metric / US CU toggle to Setting menu.
Interesting that SAE, Imperial, English, are all wrong names for this crappy measuring system we too-often have here in the United States. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

Oddly, I suspect that for most people the grid sizes and the Jump sizes could be the same. I had also included 9, perhaps 6 could do.

I reduced the color selector area, again.




For those who are curious, this is the interface with a white background. I think the standard colors, most of which were chosen by Blender3D are still a pretty good choice, but someone may have ones more to their liking. You just have to pretend that the color selectors for the background read 255, 255, 255 : )

rodw wrote:

The exception is the one-off metric job

Shame on you Andy! In my world, there is nothing but metric..

I was quoting BrendaEM. Personally I am almost entirely metric, it's what we learned at school and I did Physics at college.
But I was brought up by an Imperial engineer, so I _guess_ in Imperial. "Hmm, 1 thou interference sounds good, so for this 22mm shaft I will bore to 21.97mm..."
I also spend a lot of my time making parts for old vehicles ( 1921 Ner-a-Car , 1916 Fire Engine ) but for those I CAD in Imperial but produce drawings in metric. (I use Inventor, you can just type "1 5/8in" in the dimension box and get "41.275"

nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v3n3.htm
And just to add some fun to it

I rest my case, thank you !
P.S.
There is also a report done by a Norwegian company some time ago estimating the cost to the US that had way to many zeros on it to remember as they went into detail, but i could not find it now.

In the 70's at one of my first engineering lectures, the lecturer did a calculation in horsepower, spread over 2 blackboards, then redid it in kW in a small remaining corner and announced "And thats why we prefer to use SI units!

I did get a laugh a while ago when a friend restoring a Model T Ford called out measurements in inches to his builder stepson during a renovation who announced "I don't do Inches". 21.97 has a nice ring to it after all!

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