Standard Project > Metric

[JohnHolder]

I have a 1000mt coho farm finished all in standard measurements and with sch 40 pvc.

we may be putting one in outside of North America ( Canada and the US ) so it needs to be converted

into metric and PVCu.

I have completed a PVCu pipe catalog.

I was thinking I may be able to copy / change the name of the project and just start slowly swapping out the sch 40 pipe for PVCu pipe then just redo the dims to mm instead of ft/inch - but the PVCu pipe is just swaped to inches from mm so basically it is 25.4 times to large. so that seems like a no go.

the other option I can think of is basically delete ALL piping, explode all the equipment into it's basic blocks, copy and scale everything into a new metric project then redo all the piping.

is there any other viable options on the conversion?  the piping needs to be redone, there is no direct conversion from sch 40 to PVCu.

anything I am missing?

[TomislavGolubovic]

I would try this:

* Create a new project, and make it in Metric

* Import your specs to this project

* Import the models to your project.

The import should take care of the conversion to a metric system, I'm thinking.

[JohnHolder]

I guess I was overcomplicating it.  I was thinking I would have to explode the <equipment> to blocks to import them into a different project.

If that works, just the piping needs to be recalculated and routed.

thanks.

[JohnHolder]

<copy drawing to project> doesn't work because project units differ.

Coping the drawing into the project manually does not work since the <eqiupment> is locked to another project.

<import> command does not do anything

Either it doesn't work or I am not importing properly.

hopefully leaning twards I am not importing properly.

[Dan.Scales · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

Unfortunately the only option here is to create a new metric project and redraw.

A wish list for project unit conversion has been logged with the developers.

Thanks,
Dan

[JohnHolder]

this job is becomming a lot of work hehe.

first I made the PVCu in standard... had to redo that in metric from scratch.. and basically explode everything re equipment it and re pipe it.

but it is comming along nicely!

funny how when you redo something a second / third time you come up with nice innovations!

silver lining at least