Imperial objects infect metric users

[Christiaan]

For instance, what's the difference between these two files, apart from the fact that someone has taken the imperial version and changed the document units from inches to millimetres?

Libraries>Objects-Imperial>14_Stairs.mcd

Libraries>Objects-Metric>24_Stairs.mcd

Better yet. the default stairs are also imperial:

Defaults>Stairs>14_Stairs Imperial.mcd

Why don't metric users get default stairs that are sensible metric dimensions, such as 3000mm floor-floor, 250mm max going, 170mm max risers, 900mm wide, etc.? Why do we get lumped with imperial objects?

[mralistair]

there is a joke there about imperialism and empire building.....

someone else can fill in the blanks

[islandmon]

This points to the reality that different standards create different design styles & proportions.

What is good for the 'fractional' imperial world may be inappropriate for the 'decimal' metric world.

The ratio between the former being based on 12 and the later on 10 produces a 6:5 discontinuity with a variability of 2.727..,

in other words there's an exponential probability that the proportions will NOT be correct when switching between the two standards.

{ The irony of this natural 'weirdness' is that 10:12 is the Spheric ratio ! }

Once again Doc Christiaan's "infection" prognosis is proven to be correct. Merely changing the units from imperial > metric

does nothing to reduce the amplitude of the discontinuities and harmonize the fractional | decimal proportionality.