I’ve seen suppliers ignore the reference dimensions on laser cut drawings and just send the dxf straight to the machine, so we ended up with parts at the wrong scale because view scale != sheet scale because the person who drew it ignored the multiple times they were told how to do this and why
so we got back parts that were several feet big instead of inches
not a unit issue, but still scaling
now that I think about it, I wonder what we got charged for, as it would have been quoted by the drawing, even though it used way more steel the way they made it
yeah but I don’t know about that and I want to make this about me bc it’s the internet
jokes aside, the only NASA unit issue I am aware of was indeed a software output thing, not a human using the wrong units. program B expected program A to use whatever, but it gave a different unit instead
Wasn’t that a software based unit conversion issue? Or has this kind of thing happened multiple times.
I’ve seen suppliers ignore the reference dimensions on laser cut drawings and just send the dxf straight to the machine, so we ended up with parts at the wrong scale because view scale != sheet scale because the person who drew it ignored the multiple times they were told how to do this and why
so we got back parts that were several feet big instead of inches
not a unit issue, but still scaling
now that I think about it, I wonder what we got charged for, as it would have been quoted by the drawing, even though it used way more steel the way they made it
I was specifically talking about the NASA incidents, though.
yeah but I don’t know about that and I want to make this about me bc it’s the internet
jokes aside, the only NASA unit issue I am aware of was indeed a software output thing, not a human using the wrong units. program B expected program A to use whatever, but it gave a different unit instead