govarney
22nd September 2008, 09:39 PM
Gidday all,
I started playing around with the Woodturner Pro software again and I get frustrated with its metric support. Yes, it does support metric but only by converting the imperial measurement. This means, for example, there are a lot of 12.7mm and 76.2mm type values, these being the conversion from 1/2" and 3", and not our 12mm and 70mm, being some of our milled standards in Australia.
This started me thinking, What is the milled standard of timber in other metric countries. Are we in Australia using the world wide standard for timber. Is there a world wide standard for timber.
In Australia, some standards are
19 x 42
35 x 70
45 x 90
1200 x 2400
but these are really close approximations of imperial measures.
Does anyone know what is used in other metric countries, eg France, Germany, New Zealand etc
I started playing around with the Woodturner Pro software again and I get frustrated with its metric support. Yes, it does support metric but only by converting the imperial measurement. This means, for example, there are a lot of 12.7mm and 76.2mm type values, these being the conversion from 1/2" and 3", and not our 12mm and 70mm, being some of our milled standards in Australia.
This started me thinking, What is the milled standard of timber in other metric countries. Are we in Australia using the world wide standard for timber. Is there a world wide standard for timber.
In Australia, some standards are
19 x 42
35 x 70
45 x 90
1200 x 2400
but these are really close approximations of imperial measures.
Does anyone know what is used in other metric countries, eg France, Germany, New Zealand etc