From the course: Revit: Managing Location Coordinates

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Making sites current

Making sites current

From the course: Revit: Managing Location Coordinates

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Making sites current

- In the previous movie, we saw how we could link the various buildings to one another for coordination purposes. And we saw that once we'd set up the shared coordinates in that original set of files that it actually applied to all of the files in the shared coordinate set. So taking a further advantage of that feature, I would like to show you another quick thing that we can do here. I have a file called "Building B," and we haven't actually used this one in our collection yet, but I've gone ahead and saved the same shared coordinates here in Building B that were used in all of the other files. I'm going to go the site plan here in Building B, and as you can see, the orientation of this matches the original site, because this site plan is currently set to True North. Now, to give us the context, let's go ahead and link in the site. So I'm gonna go to the Insert tab, click Link Revit, and I'll select the file called "Terrain," link it by shared coordinates, and click Open. And you can…

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