When executing a product design, manufacturing or installation project, one of the most important factors to guarantee optimal results is the correct measurement of both the space available for the project, as well as the materials and parts of the selected products. Everything requires a precise measurement that guarantees that what we are about to design or install will fulfill its functions without remaining halfway in the available space.
Now, how is this measurement carried out? In general, we use practical tools for this purpose: measuring tapes, rulers, reference materials or scales derived from the available space, among others. What all these options have in common is that they use measurement units that allow establishing in a normalized and standard way, the “real” value that exists for a material in one, two and three dimensions.
In this post, we are going to talk about and break down unit systems in a general way. From the types of measurement systems currently used, to those that are no longer used but marked a starting point for the common measurements that we use daily in the execution of projects. To begin, let’s define the unit systems: