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why the odd sizes?

fritzz over 11 years ago

The deault sizes for text width in the menu are 12 16 24 32 40 50 56 etc mil

Why does Eagle use these as the default? Why not use 10 15 20 25 30 etc mil??

0 autodeskguest over 11 years ago

On 29/09/13 02:32, d r wrote:
The deault sizes for text width in the menu are 12 16 24 32 40 50 56 etc
mil

Why does Eagle use these as the default? Why not use 10 15 20 25 30 etc
mil??

Perhaps because 4thou ("mil") is very close to 0.1mm?
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0 fritzz over 11 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

Why the 12 16 24 32?
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0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to fritzz

As the sizes would roughly correspond as following:

12 thou ~ 0.3mm
16 thou ~ 0.4mm
24 thou ~ 0.6mm
32 thou ~ 0.8mm

Dave.
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