Selecting Units

Selecting Units

To perform a unit conversion select the current units and the required new units. These are likely to be available under the Current unit and new unit popups, but if not may be selected from the individual unit popups.

The conversion factor will appear in the right hand column. If your units are not available from a popup, you may set the factor directly.

The force unit arising from the choice of units is displayed for your information.

Finally, select the items to which you want to apply the unit change. PRIMER will automatically propagate the change onto the appropriate items, e.g. selecting a part will get the section and material also.

Special treatment of loadcurves: if the same loadcurve is used by multiple keywords, primer will check the unit type of each and, if different unit types are found, offer the option of copying curves.