Totally.

When I was in Rome in 1873, living in the campground in a motor home he built himself, come to think of it it may have been a benz, was an Architect from South Africa. He was working in an office there which was run by an American exile. They were pushing a job out and offered me employment. I worked there for a couple of weeks and earned enough to buy some really nice Italian clothes which I wore til I gained too much weight to get them on anymore. But the use of metrics....well, It took no time at all. They just handed me a metric scale and in a day or so I was thinking in meters.

As Craig said, it is a lot easier to draw and calculate in meters, where everything is decimals. Inches? ridiculous, when making stair tread calculations you have to convert everything to inches, make your calculations and take it back to feet and inches. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.

Why we don't convert is a total mystery.....until I think of our fearless president and then......

Tom W

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