1. Go to the opening page of STAAD.Pro. In this page, you will only be able to see two options in the top menu bar – “File” and “Help”. Refer to Figure 1.

2. In the “File” menu, click on the “Configure” option. Please refer to Figure 1 below.

                                                         Figure 1

3. On clicking on the “Configure” option, the following is displayed (refer Figure 2). 

4. Click on the “drop-down” switch. The current base unit settings will be shown and highlighted. Click on the required Unit Settings and click on “Apply” and “Accept”. Refer Figure 2.

                                     Figure 2

5. Your Base Unit Settings are changed now.

This change would need to have read/write permissions to the staadpro20070.ini. Please ensure that you have the write permissions to the location where the INI file is located. This is located in C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Engineering\STAAD.Pro V8i SSX.