How can I change unit system in calculated value tool?

- May 29, 2018 at 1:14 pm
  
  a.cinciripini
  Subscriber
  
  Hello Everybody,
  
  I am facing a small issue in Results task in Ansys AIM.
  
  Basically when I calculate a value, like mass flow at outlet for instance, I don't find the way to change the system units. I would like to show this number in (m^3/h). This happens both with "function calculation" and with "user defined expressions". If I change the units under Units>Unit system, it works only if I use the predefined settings (like SI, U.S.Eng.....), but does not work if I use custom units, so setting "hours" as time unit.
  
  Thank you in advance for your support,
  
  Bye bye,
  
  Alessandro
- May 29, 2018 at 9:25 pm
  
  Brian Bueno
  Ansys Employee
  
  alecinci
  
  This may be a limitation at the current point in time. I will have to ask the development team if there is any way around this.
- May 30, 2018 at 2:49 pm
  
  Brian Bueno
  Ansys Employee
  
  alecinci This appears to be working on our end. In this case temperature was set to Kelvin and time was set to hours.
- May 30, 2018 at 3:38 pm
  
  a.cinciripini
  Subscriber
  
  Thanks so much for your reply.
  
  I see.... this seems working in this case for a time dependent analysis to visualize the time-step advancement.
  
  Unfortunately using the same method (so creating a custom unit system) I saw it does not work for time based units system, like volume flow rate in m^3/h instead of m^3/s.
  
  I will wait for the development team answer....
  
  Thanks a lot again
  
  Alessandro

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