American Measurement System

[RadicalMooseLamb]

I'm absolutely loving this game. I actually draw houses in real life and I was wondering if there was a way or if someone made a mod that adds in american measurements for houses? We measure and draw our houses by the foot. Metrics mean nothing to me and I can't tell how big the actual houses are.

[Nite69]

then just use a Converter, type in the feet you want and it will tell you it in metric or Vice Versa

[RadicalMooseLamb]

I'd prefer if it was in the game. Because the game automatically calculates the inner cubic feet of the room without having to adjust for wall thickness

[Nite69]

i got another idea that might help, use floor title squares as a guide to layout a floor plan and that will give you an idea as to how big each room will be before you build the walls

[RadicalMooseLamb]

I appreciate you going through the effort. Thanks

[Trentscousin]

When I was 17, (in 1977) my teacher told me "learn your metric system" because when you grow up the US will be fully metric.

I looked her straight in the tits' and said "never".

I was right. (mostly).

[RadicalMooseLamb]

haha. We will never use the metrics system ever. I was just out drawing more houses today for work and I was like. Thank god. Feet, something I can stand behind.

[Grove of Dreams]

Originally posted by RadicalMooseLamb:

haha. We will never use the metrics system ever. I was just out drawing more houses today for work and I was like. Thank god. Feet, something I can stand behind.

The US measurement system has been defined by Metrics since 1893. That is to say, "one foot" is literally defined (not "translated") as 0.3048 meters. Saying you're six feet tall is a colloquialism of "I am 5.3 / 3rds of a meter tall", which just shows that we use 'clean' terms to hide 'messy' measurements. The movement in the 1970s by Jimmy Carter, et al. was an attempt to simply remove the colloquial euphemisms and use only 'clean' measurements.

Using a fractions-based, customary measurement system made sense when education was poor, access to measuring tools was rare, and imprecision in the final product enjoyed greater tolerance. It quickly loses favor when you're trying to do things like machine an orbiter that will then require minute maneuvers while circling another planet ~35 million miles (~57 million km) away.

Sources:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mars-climate-orbiter/in-depth/
https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot

[Trentscousin]

You might have a point when all the speed limits in US are changed to "kilometers".

Till then ?

Not so much.

Also you said that backwards. Metrics have been defined by Imperial (not US, Imperial).

[Trentscousin]

I will take my 10" and show myself out.