Quote Originally Posted by Mark Grotenhuis View Post
How do Europeans buy wood? In America we use the board foot unit which is 12"X12"X1" What do Europeans use? Cubic meters? Board Centimeters? Anyone know?
Lumber is always bough by cubic meter.

Furniture and architectural design elements are usually in millimeters, but in retail the dimensions will be often in centimeters. In practice it doesn't really matter. All you need to do is either add zeros or shift the decimal point. The table below might seem a little scary but in every day life you'll fit in between 0.001 and 1000 most of the time (mili- and kilo-)