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My company's been using the metric system for the design and documentation of all new products for the last five years. All the fabrication shops we outsource to here in Silicon Valley are fully capable of building parts from drawings and CAD models made to metric dimensions. Converting over from imperial was a bit challenging in the beginning, but it all flows easily now. The most difficult part for me was getting the hang of applying precision tolerances to metric dimensions. Because I was so used to thinking in 'inches', I made some charts to help me quickly reference things like what .00005" is in millimeters. After that, I was good to go.