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This because you want to have the nominal diamter of Imperial specs in mm in the BOM &#8211; 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.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>To solve this challenge you have to open the&#160;<em>piping.dcf&#160;<\/em>(SQLite project) respectively &lt;prefix&lt;Piping-database (SQL Server). For SQLite-projects you can use for example SQLite Expert Personal to open the&#160;<em>piping.dcf.&#160;<\/em> Switch to the table&#160;<em>PnPProject<\/em> and look for the column&#160;<em>Project_Standard.&#160;<\/em>Here you can change the units of the Plant project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eImperial:&#160;&#160; &#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;for a British project<\/li>\n<li>eMetric:&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;for a Metric project<\/li>\n<li>eMixedMetric&#160; &#160; for a Mixed-Metric project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Afterwards you have to re-open the project. 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