From the course: Revit: Managing Location Coordinates
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Specifying coordinates at a point
From the course: Revit: Managing Location Coordinates
Specifying coordinates at a point
- In this movie, we're gonna talk about the command called Specify Coordinates at a Point. Now, we use this command to indicate the coordinates that we want at a very specific location in the project, just like its name implies, and where you're usually gonna get this information is from your civil engineer or whoever's in charge of your site plan. I'm in a site plan view right now, and I have both the project base and survey points turned on, and you'll notice that when I try and highlight there, it highlights the project's base point. So I can press tab to get it to find the survey point, and when I click on that, it says that that's 0.0, 0.0. Now, in fact, from the position of those two points, you can tell that I'm just using a default, out of the box, template here that ships with Revit. So what I want to do is move that survey point to the location where I want it to be positioned in my project, and I want to specify what I want those coordinates to actually be based on the real…
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