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Small siily question really, that I just cant find the answer to. From an engineering / sheetmetal point of view. Does Austrialia work in metric or imperial. All the references I have seen refer to both !!:curse:

liverpool12

Without sounding patronising...............................

What the bloomin hell does it matter ??????

LouiseR

my OH would like to know this as well! it matters to some people because everything about their job is measurements!! my OH deals in mm and all his tools etc are for mm so if its imperial in oz he's going to have to get new tools out there instead of using his metric ones that he has here. so without sounding patronising - it matters a lot - especially to engineers.

MUST LEAVE UK

Because I am in my thirties and all Metric. If I set up a new business over there. I'd like to know what else I need to learn. Plus my UK company makes most things for standard Metric ranges, to our current tooling could not be used.

Anyone actually got something helpful to add :curse::curse:

MonkeyBoySteve

Metric as standard, however I do come across the odd very old imperial drawing.

BethandAndrew

Yes you do sound patronising!!!!
Everyone has the right to ask a question on here, that's the whole point of this forum!!!!
Anyway, my husband is a Civil Engineer and asked this very question last year
Beth x x

Katsmajics other half !!!

I was wondering too, i am glad its metric cos all my tools that are on the way there are all metric, i do imperial too but thats with measuring epuipment supplied by my company...........that i leave in 8 days............YEEEEHAAAAAA

BethandAndrew

YAY!!!! Good for you
Hows things going?
Beth x x

Katsmajics other half !!!

Madness here things being sold fron under our feet..........in fact our bad has been sold from under our bodies we sold our bed today so thats it were onto sofas for next 3/4 weeks til we go..............luckily the MIL is havin ur sofas so we can keep them til we go............least we got summat to sleep on one of kids has been on mattress on floor for couple of weeks already.

Were getting there i cnt belive its actually happenin tbh.

BethandAndrew

LOL......I'll be going through that soon enough
Looking back, after what we've had to go through to just be allowed to emigrate, sleeping on the sofa will be a doddle!!!!
Let us know how you get on please,
Take care and good luck with everything,
Beth x x

>Trigger<

Bit of both for me...1960's drawings and then smack bang up to date yank machines...so some imperial

mabozaritchie

Are you guys serious? any decent engineer I know & even the crap ones always work in both. It's always been the way and I'm 38. For a rough measurement you use mm but for precision stuff it's thou s . As in using a rule or tape it's mm but when you get down to the tricky stuff ie under 0.1mm you revert back to imperial thous & tenths.

>Trigger<

Guess i better throw my 0-25mm micrometer out then...

Mate...we use one or the other.. not both at the same time

liverpool12

Guys,

I wasn't trying to be funny by saying 'what does it matter'.

I am an engineer myself and work in both metric and imperial. I must admit that I prefer metric and if I do get given a job with imperial dimensions, then I would normally just convert them back to metric anyway.

Sorry if I upset anyone, you are right, everyone has got the right to ask a question and get a decent answer, I just couldn't work out the point of the post in the first place thats all.

Good Luck everyone anyway

BethandAndrew

The OP was asking whether imperial or metric measurements were used in Australia. Simple question which received a simple answer. I'm sure any experienced engineer could work with either one Not sure my hubby would appreciate being told how to read a tape measure though!!!!

Well said

You haven't upset anyone.....and the question has been answered
Beth x x