Fabrication Assistant
0.00 In
1 ft
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1"
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1/2"
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1/4"
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1/8"
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1/16"
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1/32"
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1/64"
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1/128"
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  • How to use:

    • Input the number you’re looking to parse into imperial fractions

    • Define the unit of your input

    • In order will be how many of each smaller measurement are within the input

  • Why / When to use this thing?

    If you ever need quickly convert a decimal into usable fractions marked on a ruler.

  • Where did this even come from?

    This was the first tool I created years ago back in high-school when building guitars and needing to place the frets on a fret board correctly. With fret position measurements listed as 1.431”, 2.782”, 4.057”, etc. this was… not exactly helpful information without some conversions. Programming my Ti-84 graphing calculator to parse out the notable fractions is a level of focus I have been chasing ever since (did I focus in class? No, no i did not.)

    Fast forward to running Custom Fabrication at Blueprint Studios and I found that a bunch of my team had print outs of rulers that listed 1”, 1/2”, 1/4”, 1/8” etc against 1 mm and 1 cm measurements for visualization. As well, often when we’d receive external build-documents they’d list decimals for our crew armed with measuring tapes.

    It was niche - but the need was there. And sweet god was I not going to keep going through every document and writing the imperial units on every listed measurement.