Establish location, weather station, and orientation - Revit Tutorial

- [Instructor] So here we're going to locate the project in the real world. And the first thing I want to use is the Locate button. I'll show it under the Analyze tab here so it's clearer, and that you see what I'm selecting. But remember, I could be using the fast keys, or you could be using the quick access toolbar. So when I say locate, what it does is bring up this dialog box. The default location is Boston, Massachusetts. And on this screen, what you're seeing is a red icon that indicates where the project is. Blue icons are pins that show where the weather stations are. There's something like 4400 of these around the world. You don't have to go with the closest one, the one that's selected, which is the one showing in orange. You can define your own weather station. When you pick your location, you'll see the climate conditions. So if I go back to location, if it's a famous building you just type in the name of the building. You can give street intersections. For our purposes, I'm going to say 301 Broadway, Alameda, California. That's where I've got this project. And when I hit on Enter, it's going to take me to that location. If I use the scroll button in the middle of my mouse, I can roll forward towards that location. And you'll see that the red marker is there. You can pick up that marker and you can move it to wherever you want, but the point of that marker is that it's giving you the latitude and longitude. So now it knows where the sun is located relative to the position in the world for different times of the year. Depending on the browser you have; so you can use Google Chrome, or you can use Firefox, or Internet Explorer, but some of them will give you the option where you can click on the street view. And if I turn this, that's me actually looking towards the building that we're about to create; The south building in this complex. So sometimes if I'm doing a project and I'm not in the locality, I can check out what the surrounding buildings look like and get an idea of the site. So that's just got latitude and longitude. I'm going to roll back a little bit so we can see weather stations that are displayed. It will give you a choice, and depending on the conditions of your site, if you have say, a large body of water, or your building is at a different elevation, it may be there's another weather station that's closer to what you have on your site. So the point that I want to make is that you can select, if I click on this one here, you see that I actually selected that weather station, which I think is actually Oakland airport. And then that is closer to the conditions that I have here. And now I'm seeing the weather in Alameda as opposed to what we were looking at, which was the weather in Boston. If I click out of that, that's me established the location of my project and picked the weather station. The last thing here I want to show in that file is that if I brought in an aerial photograph, you can see that true north is straight up, but because of the way the drawings are in Revit, from the point of view of producing drawings, their project north is aligned with the side of the building here. So the difference between the two is 23.68 degrees. And how I can set that for my project so I can know where true north is, is on this icon called the Project Base Point where I can come in here and say 26.38 degrees. Now Revit has all the information it needs once you've given it that. You don't have to change the display on the screen to say don't show me project north, but show me true north, but that's typically what you'll be doing with site plans as opposed to the building plans. So, the view doesn't have to be changed, what has to be changed is the setting under the Project Base Point. So that has now located our building in the real world.