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How to change the unit of an AutoCAD Plant 3D project after the project creation

Bernd Gerstenberger
February 17, 2016

Maybe you know this situation. You have created a new project, for example as a mixed-metric project but afterwards you have noted that you want to have for example a metric project. This because you want to have the nominal diamter of Imperial specs in mm in the BOM – not in inches which is if you have a mixed-metric project. Is it possible to change the units of a project afterwards? Yes, it is but the solution should only be an exception. It is always better that you set the project units correctly during project creation. 

To solve this challenge you have to open the piping.dcf (SQLite project) respectively <prefix<Piping-database (SQL Server). For SQLite-projects you can use for example SQLite Expert Personal to open the piping.dcf.  Switch to the table PnPProject and look for the column Project_Standard. Here you can change the units of the Plant project:

  • eImperial:         for a British project
  • eMetric:            for a Metric project
  • eMixedMetric    for a Mixed-Metric project

Afterwards you have to re-open the project. If you select the project in the project manager you will note the units of the project:

Projectmanager

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    Bernd Gerstenberger

    Bernd has worked for Autodesk Product Support since 2010. His main role quickly moved from supporting vanilla AutoCAD and Install & Licensing to providing technical support for AutoCAD Plant 3D and AutoCAD P&ID for both customers and partners. Currently he is the Knowledge Domain Expert for AutoCAD Plant 3D at Autodesk. Before his time at Autodesk he gained extensive experience over many years working in different sections of the IT industry: CAD-administration, network administration, database development, plot management, programming, project management, PDM-administration, GIS-applications and workflow systems with different products.

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