Re: Unit conversion (low Audi cont)

[dan_masi@MENTORG.COM (Dan Masi)]

On Oct 14,  8:13am, Andrew Duane USG/PE wrote:

> >From my handy "units" program:

Ah, seems someone beat me to it.  Sorry!

> It claims that newtons and pounds don't mix unit-wise, so I can't
> get the conversion for Nm <-> Lb ft.

You've got to look at the conversion file in /usr/lib/units
to understand this.  First, nm isn't a newton-meter to "units";
it's a nanometer.  Need to use nt.  Second, a pound (lb) is
a unit of mass, not force... to get force, need to specify
lbf.  So specify nt-m for newton-meter, and ft-lbf, and
it works.

Dan Masi
'96 A4Q