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Uhm do you by any chance have plas of doing a similar prop in metric measurements? I haven't got a clue of how long a foot is and with my very poor math skills I'd probably mess it up completely if I should do the calculations myself. Thanks in advance ;o) ~TrekkieGrrrl

arrh...plas = plaNs

TrekkieGrrrl, if it helps, 1 foot is 12 inches and 1 inch is 25.4 mm. The math you still have to fight with, though.

1 foot ~ 30.5cm (approx) 1 metre ~ 39.35 inches Being in the UK, I'm forever converting back and forward. -- Mark (1 mile approx 1.6 km; 1km approx 0.62 miles)

The standard inch is defined in terms of the standard metre. 1 in == 2.54 cm (exactly).

Ern: Until somebody recalibrates the ruler itself, one way to avoid constant math is to set the ruler's scale to 32.81%. Each division will then be one decimeter (10 cm).

Hmmm.....another way is to adjust the floor tile, say that every 3 squares is actually a meter, and go from there. Make the cube prop into a ruler that matches the squares....etc. I've been using Lightwave for a short while and even though it will convert between metrics and feet and inches, I've found that the measurements really are mostly practical when building a scene, but the viewer of the final render will have no way of really knowing if everything is to scale anyway, (unless you are designing something like a court re-enactment or something like that.)

Geep, I am not trying to be smart, but shouldnt an inch be divided into 6 or 12 subdivisions instead of the 10 you are using in your scale? (Im Dutch using the metric system, obviously I could be wrong...) MaxxArcher

Hi Max,

You are NOT being "smart," and you have asked a very good question.

I am glad you asked the question because I am sure there are others who would like to know the answer, also.

The answer is ...

... the English "inch" is normally divided into:

halves ....... 1/2
quarters ..... 1/4
eights ....... 1/8
sixteens ..... 1/16
thirty-seconds 1/32
(etc.)

Thus:

This system (i.e., dividing in "half" each time) does NOT lend itself to work well with the Poser decimal (base 10) system. (e.g., 0.000)

That is why I have divided the English "inch" into 10 parts, and NOT quarters, eighths, sixteenths, etc.

It is interesting to note that, even in the good ol' U.S. of A., the "Engineering" type of scale (or ruler) is produced with the inch divided into 10 parts - and NOT 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.

I hope this answers your question.

BTW - I just did a post for the METRIC system using Poser's GROUND.

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

..."Real World" measurements .... for my METRIC friends. cheers, dr geep ;=]