Drill Sizes

As they say in Get Shorty, "You don't know me, you just think you do".

I come in here for advice, and you flame me.  It is you who are closed minded,

not me.  I happen to like Eagle, but the rotten documentation makes it a little

difficult to learn.  The documentation was clearly created by folks for whom

English is a foreign language.  To call them poorly done is an insult to poorly

done things everywhere.  Since I paid cashey money for my copy, I have a right

to ***.

OK, I'll bite, what is a remotely rational explanation for the long drill sizes?

Do you understand the concept of sig figs?

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:52:54 -0500, Olin Lathrop <eagle@embedinc.com> wrote:

analog wrote on Tue, 15 December 2009 13:50

Doncha just love the sarcastic answers one gets in Usenet.

 

It's not Usenet, it's the quality of the questions.

 

Quote:

Have you not noticed those sizes in Eagle 5.6, to like six or eight

decimal places: .0 63xxxx.  It may be an artifact of the internal

conversion from mm to inches, but if it is that is profoundly dumb (since

the grid is actually in inches).

 

I think there is a reasonable explanation, but you've already made up your

mind so trying to discuss it would be a pointless.

 

Quote:

A little basic information in an otherwise atrocious manual would be

nice...

 

Since you've already decided that Eagle is "profoundly dumb" and the manual

"atrocious", why are you still trying to use it?

 

Personally I find Eagle a generally well thought out and very useful

program, especially considering it's price compared to meaningful

alternatives.  I'm happy to discuss aspects of Eagle, but not with people

who just want to bash it and not learn or solve anything.

As they say in Get Shorty, "You don't know me, you just think you do".

I come in here for advice, and you flame me.  It is you who are closed minded,

not me.  I happen to like Eagle, but the rotten documentation makes it a little

difficult to learn.  The documentation was clearly created by folks for whom

English is a foreign language.  To call them poorly done is an insult to poorly

done things everywhere.  Since I paid cashey money for my copy, I have a right

to ***.

OK, I'll bite, what is a remotely rational explanation for the long drill sizes?

Do you understand the concept of sig figs?

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:52:54 -0500, Olin Lathrop <eagle@embedinc.com> wrote:

analog wrote on Tue, 15 December 2009 13:50

Doncha just love the sarcastic answers one gets in Usenet.

 

It's not Usenet, it's the quality of the questions.

 

Quote:

Have you not noticed those sizes in Eagle 5.6, to like six or eight

decimal places: .0 63xxxx.  It may be an artifact of the internal

conversion from mm to inches, but if it is that is profoundly dumb (since

the grid is actually in inches).

 

I think there is a reasonable explanation, but you've already made up your

mind so trying to discuss it would be a pointless.

 

Quote:

A little basic information in an otherwise atrocious manual would be

nice...

 

Since you've already decided that Eagle is "profoundly dumb" and the manual

"atrocious", why are you still trying to use it?

 

Personally I find Eagle a generally well thought out and very useful

program, especially considering it's price compared to meaningful

alternatives.  I'm happy to discuss aspects of Eagle, but not with people

who just want to bash it and not learn or solve anything.