It's standard in all electronics layout software internationally, as well as some 3D modeling and milling machine type CAD stuff - but you're on the right track, the yanks are the only ones still using imperial in engineering so the measurements are still in use and thus still in the tools.![]()
Dale Kerrigan: If there's anything Dad loved more than serenity, it was a big two stroke engine on full throttle!
Wikidude: "The point, used in navigation, is 1/32 of a full circle. It is a binary subunit of the turn. 1 point = 1/8 of a right angle = 11.25° = 12.5 gon. Each point is subdivided in four quarter-points so that 1 turn equals 128 quarter-points."
Admittedly not normally used nowdays, in spite of us having won the war. Never in fact used on maps either. Nevertheless, there was a time when bawling "luff 'er up twenty two degrees, Helm" would have caused some comment on the quarterdeck.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
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