From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Rotating and aligning a Revit link

Rotating and aligning a Revit link - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2019: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Rotating and aligning a Revit link

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- [Narrator] In this video, I want to talk about positioning a linked file with precision. So sometimes when you link in a Revit model, they don't share the same coordinate system, or the same origin, and so they end up in the wrong location. And I have an example of that here. You can see my office building is down in the lower right-hand corner, and the site plan is right in the middle of the screen, but they don't have any relationship to one another whatsoever. So what we want to do is move the site plan linked file into position, so that it's correctly oriented relative to the building. In order to do that, I've got a few different techniques I could try. And I want to showcase two different methods with you in this video. One is going to be using the rotate command, and the other will use the align command. So to get started, the first thing I want to do is point out something that I've added to the site plan model to help us out. So I'm going to use my zoom in region tool right…

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