• Zerush@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Or you find that some were measured in inch and others in mm (NASA)

      • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Wasn’t that a software based unit conversion issue? Or has this kind of thing happened multiple times.

        • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          1 day ago

          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

            • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
              5·
              1 day ago

              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