Can you convert height units to something usable?

I only know of 5 assets that act like a vertical ruler and they have issues. The main problem is what Peter points out that they measure from the baseboard surface in most cases and they are on the real world scale of around 100 feet. However, if they are height adjustable then you can measure relative height such as the clearance under a rail bridge. If you model real scale then you might not need to know relative heights but many model railroad plans have heights measured relative to the low point or to the floor. Trying to get the heights correct so that the grades are correct can mean a lot of fidgeting.
That's where I thought a base with a spline might work almost like a tape measure. Stretch up from wherever it's place to the height we need. There could be two versions, one in imperial and one in metric to satisfy the itch of whoever uses it.
 
Metric time worked much better (there were 10 100-minutes hours in a day)
I agree. My partner complains whenever I tell her the time using the 24 hr clock ("18 hundred. what's that? What's the REAL time?").

The Romans had the right idea - December, where DEC = 10, was the 10th and last month of the year, preceded by November, NOV = 9, OCT=8, SEPT=7 - much more sensible until "non-metric" people decided to change it.
 
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You would still have ten 36-day months, plus 5 or 6 extra days...

To have a perfect metric calendar, Earth should be somewhere between Mars (687 days/year) and the Asteroid belt (~1,700 days/year) and we could have a 1,000 day year made of ten 100-day months, each one of them with ten 10-day decades. Unfortunately, the planet would be a lifeless ball of rock with nobody worrying about how to count time...:cool:

Going back to the original issue, I am no programming wizard, but I don't see having the height displayed in feet (with decimals) when Imperial units are selected as such an impossible task...
 
In order to extract the latitude and longitude values and display them in my Lat-Long Reader, I use "name datum" where datum contains those two values.
Anyone know if there is a similar name that has the height value? It must be stored somewhere in order to display it in S2.0
 
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So? Water freezes at 0C and boils at 100C. Seems very natural and normal.
Plus, what is so normal about 8.33 ft, 33.33 yards, 0.018 miles and 6.25 lbs and why the unnatural decimalization instead of the inches, ounces etc?
The graph is satire, Martin. I'm Aussie, imperial sucks.
 
100cm = 1m
36" = 1yd
1m = 39.37"
10% gradient =1/10
40m of track at 1/10 = 4m high or 157.45" high
Which is easier to work out?

The one you use most commonly. I'm British and metric is a foreign system. I was 12 years old when we switched over to decimal currency so at 65 I could no longer work out prices in old money even if we could use it. For distances and weights I think in imperial because I have them set in my head. The only thing I have found metric useful for is 3D railway modelling where metric sizes are easier to use than imperial for small lengths.
 
Like a pair of crutches, very handy and useful in the short term but eventually you need to able to stand on your own two feet or be a slave to those crutches for life.
 
Here's a very useful website.
Assuming that most people here using Windows. It's build in:

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