Pipe Flow Expert provides the flexibility to enter the units for the components of a pipe system in imperial (inches, feet, gallons, etc), or metric (millimeters, centimeters, liters, etc) or a combination of imperial and metric units. It is best practice to configure the system’s universal imperial or metric unit setting before configuring individual units and default values. The universal unit setting converts all values to imperial or metric units in a pipe system. If you will be using a combination of imperial and metric units you can change the type of units used for individual items on the Units tab of the Configuration Options dialog once you’ve defined the universal setting.


NOTE: When you change the universal unit setting, it converts all unit values to the unit type selected, and all values on the Units tab of the Configuration Options dialog are converted to the fields’ default values. For example, if you are changing the universal setting from imperial to metric, all values, including any imperial units selected on the Units tab of the Configuration Options dialog, are converted to metric. All field values on the Units tab are also reset to their default metric value.


There are three places in Pipe Flow Expert that you can define the universal unit setting.

 

To define the universal unit setting:


  1. To change the units from the toolbar, click the Imperial or Metric option on the tool bar.


  1. To change the units from the Units tab, click the Units,ToolButtonChooseUnits02.dib , button on the tool bar or select Specify Units from the Units menu to open the Units tab of the Configuration Options screen. Click the Imperial or Metric option.


  1. To change the units from the Units menu, select the Imperial Units or Metric Units from the Configuration Options Units Tab screen.


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