How many square feet is a grid?
sleazy:
ooh thanks everyone
Zazazu:
Quote from: notovny on 2007 November 06, 12:41:56
Quote from: JennyJenny on 2007 November 06, 03:01:37
I believe they are between 3 and 4 square feet.
A square that's 3 square feet in area has sides measuring just over 1.73 feet.
When building from floor plans, I've typically gone with the tiles being three feet on a side (9 square feet in area() I 've seen people build at a scale of 2-foot squares (4 square feet in area.) to avoid routing problems, but I've always felt that made the houses enourmous.
I quit building from floor plans in the traditional sense. I just build the outside, using window placement as a guide. Kind of hard to explain, but easy to eye-ball. This window looks like a 2-tile window, the spaces here look about the size of a 1-tile, etc. Then I compute total tiles on each outer side and pick the closest lot size. The inside I just do how it makes sense to me...I find that the way the sim world does size ends in enormous homes or tiny unusable rooms, no happy medium. Plus, most of the homes I love from floorplans contain too many bedrooms/bathrooms/bonus rooms. I prefer 2-3 beds, 2- 2 1/2 baths. Although my current legacy family is in a 5 bed, 5 bath colonial. Designed from scratch as part of a set of 4 1-space-from-edge homes specifically to house larger families...'cause it's so time for Free Love to hit Queen's Cove.
Hecubus:
Quote from: Khan of Wyrms on 2007 November 06, 14:21:43
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 November 06, 13:27:41
Hey, President Carter tried.
It was Ford who tried. Carter did not take office until 1977.
My mistake. Now that I actually read the article I linked <smirk> I see that the Metric Board was established in the Ford administration. I guess I just associate Carter with having pushed it during his administration.
wes_h:
Tiles are one meter on a side, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
On metrification, almost every metric equivalent to the common measurements is bigger. A meter is longer than a yard. A liter has more volume than a quart. A half-kilo is still heavier than a pound. Every US product that I know of carries the size expressed as common and metric both.
But the size units are in round common units, not even metric ones. With perhaps the exception of medicines (in milligrams) and the previously mentioned 2-liter soda bottles, manufacturers would have to commit to the expense of new packaging and then would have to raise prices because there would be more product using an even metric approximate-equivalent package.
I don't know of any marketing people that would like to be the first to unilaterally raise their product price. The soda size change happened as a result of a (successful) promotion to increase market share by giving a little more soda for the same money.
From my rememberance of when the 2 and 3 liter soda bottles began to appear, I don't think anyone would have trouble adjusting to the new size. I just think that too many people would not look at the size or price per unit, just whoever had the larger price sticker would have a sales disadvantage.
dizzy:
In metric, I tend to think of tiles as 121.92 cm x 121.92 cm. ;D
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