BS 2856:1973
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Precise conversion of inch and metric sizes on engineering drawings
Hardcopy , PDF
English
08-10-1973
Co-operating organizations
Foreword
Scope
Introduction
Basis of conversion procedure
Recommended conversion procedure
Rules for the conversion of inch and millimetre sizes
Case 1 Simple features having two limits of size
Case 2 Groups of simple positional features
Case 3 Datum dimensions
Case 4 Untoleranced dimensions (excluding positional
and datum dimensions)
Tables
1 Conversion of inch sizes to millimetre sizes
2 Conversion of millimetre sizes to inch sizes
Figure
1 Examples of datum dimensions
Appendix
A Conversion tables
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