Actually, I'd love to work in metric, but no civil engineering is done that way in the US, to speak of.
Other than that really horrible idea that WSDOT had for a while where every freeway job had to be done in metric . . . wait for it . . . and english units. Literally, two sets of plans. Because the contractors wouldn't build off metric plan sets. And all the nominals were nominal in both systems, so they were not actual sizes in either. Etc.
It'd take me a while to adjust to metric at this point, but mostly it'd be a matter of getting all the references in the correct units.
But, hell, it has to be better than what I do now; working with architects, I have to translate between feet(decimal feet, engineering standard) and the architectural standard unit of, an inch. Not only do they label everything in feet and inches, but they draw it all in inches. All our cad work is 12x scale difference. I do site development and support architects, so I have to insert architectural drawings, etc., all the time. Big PITA to scale everything.
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Other than that really horrible idea that WSDOT had for a while where every freeway job had to be done in metric . . . wait for it . . . and english units. Literally, two sets of plans. Because the contractors wouldn't build off metric plan sets. And all the nominals were nominal in both systems, so they were not actual sizes in either. Etc.
It'd take me a while to adjust to metric at this point, but mostly it'd be a matter of getting all the references in the correct units.
But, hell, it has to be better than what I do now; working with architects, I have to translate between feet(decimal feet, engineering standard) and the architectural standard unit of, an inch. Not only do they label everything in feet and inches, but they draw it all in inches. All our cad work is 12x scale difference. I do site development and support architects, so I have to insert architectural drawings, etc., all the time. Big PITA to scale everything.
-B.