I just finished looking at the plans to build Jake's Chair. The dimensions were given in decimal form. There were several decimals though that I didn't recognize such as .9 and .6. How are these measurements figured?
"Badly".
You can get strange things like that if the original was in metric units, with a 'clueless' conversion to ft/inches.
And, of course, there _are_ rulers marked in decimal fractions of an inch. Relatively uncommon, but they *do* exist.
If somebody uses 1 decimal place for things in "1/8ths", you typically get decimal parts of: .0 .1 .2 .4 .5 .6 .8 (sometimes .7) and .9
What you're actually dealing with is anybody's guess.
I think they are rounded off. .9 is likely .875 or 7/8, .6 is likely .625, or 5/8.
That sucks if in inches--if metric, makes sense....
To convert to nearest 8th, 16th or 32nd...
0.9*8 = 7.2 0.9*16 = 14.4 0.9*32 = 28.8Depending on how anal you are you can choose...
For me, I'd look at the 0.8 and figure it was sorry CAD formatting and figure it was actually 0.875 rounded which would have been 7/8". 0.6 was probably 5/8".
Probably converted from metric measurements.
If you want them in fractional inches, multiply by 64 to get 64ths, e.g. 0.9 *
64 = 57.6 so 58/64 or 29/32. Similarly, 0.6 * 64 = 38.4 so 38/64 or 19/32.Double-checking: 29/32 = 0.906; 19/32 = 0.594. Within six-thousandths each time - probably close enough.
If not, multiply by 128 instead: 0.9 = 115/128, and 0.6 = 77/128 (both accurate within two thou).
An "Engineers Scale" is calibrated in decimel form; however, It is only
12" long.Not the answer to a maiden's prayer, but used in conjuction with a 12 ft tape, will get the job done.
Lew
If they're not rounded then I do it when I made it - just figure .9 is
7/8" and .4 is close enough to 7/16" to not make much difference in building the chairs. It's not a matter of following the actual dimensions in the plans to the decimal point, but making components with the same specs the same dimensions.
Here's a site that might help.
I've got a 6 footer, marked in 1/100.
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