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Coordinates

Coordinates - Revit Tutorial

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Coordinates

- [Narrator] Revit has two separate coordinate points that you should know about before bringing your point cloud into a project. We can see those points by coming into Properties, going to our Visibility Graphics, and then selecting on the Edit button, or you can either type the letter V twice on the keyboard or the letter V-G on the keyboard to bring up the same menu. I'm gonna select on the Edit button, then here underneath the Model Categories tab, scroll down until you find Site. Click the little plus next to Site. The first spot that I wanna look at is called the Project Base Point. Your Project Base Point is the point where you have your real-world coordinates for your project, so by clickin' on Project Based Point and clickin' on OK, you'll then see a circle with an X going through it. If you select on that Project Base Point, you'll then see your options to set your North/South, East/West, your Elevation, and even your Angle to True North associated with your project, so this…

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