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I live in Canada, where...
my Temperatures are Celsius.
My Beer comes in Litres.
I drive in Kilometres per hour.
and yet, when I go to the Lumber store, I have to buy a 2" x 4" or a 4' by 8' sheet.
I hate Imperial measure...even the British dropped it decades ago.
but, because of Canada`s proximity to the US, we are still bound to a number of American systems of measure.
I've had the scale thing on my models for some time.
Its usually on Parts pages, but it gets carried onto Instruct pages too.
I design my models using Millimeters... always.
I use Metric Rules as much as possible.
And my Micrometer is Metric.
But the page size is still Letter...based on inches.
I can't buy A4 cardstock easily here in Canada, as many of you are aware.
So I must continue to cater to the North American market.
Its actually easier for North Americans to fit A4 on to Letter page (using no margins)
than it is for Europeans to do the reverse.
So, I can make an A4 format kit, and allow it to be printed on Letter aswell.
The Inch Scale bar isn't going to provide me with that much extra space anyway.
If I really need the space, I sometimes leave the whole block out and put a copyright thingy somewhere else.
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