From the course: Revit: Managing Location Coordinates

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Orienting a linked file

Orienting a linked file

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Orienting a linked file

- In this chapter we're going to take a lot of the concepts that we've covered in the previous chapter and kind of tie them together into a very simple sort of real-life scenario. So probably the simplest scenario that involves setting up coordinates is bringing a single building onto a single site. So just to kind of summarize what we did in the previous chapter, we talked about an overall coordinate system, which is like this curved grid that you see here and that coordinate system has a north direction, which we call true north. It also has an origin and you can put your survey point at that origin or at any point along the grid, and then the project has its own internal coordinate system that either aligns with and coincides with this coordinate system that we have here or it can actually be shifted and rotated from that, and so here I'm showing it shifted and rotated just for contrast but it has its own project north and its own project orientation X, Y and Z as related back to…

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