I asked this someqhere else but I thought I'd give it a try here so....
I'm a veteran AutoCAD user. I'm currently learning REVIT from a video tutorial I bought, but there's one small thing that's driving me crazy. How do relative coordinates work on REVIT? When drawing a line on AutoCAD you’d start the command, then click on the first and then type let’s say @5,9 That’d make the second point of that line to be located 5 units to the right on the x-axis and 9 units up on the y-axis from the starting point. How can I accomplish the same basic operation on REVIT? Same thing goes for moving an object. How can I move a column 3 meters to the right and 5 meters up without moving it twice, once in each direction, or calculating the distance and angle ?Please help a newbie!
You need to start thinking Revit is completely different product from AutoCAD. Many of your AutoCAD knowledge will not help.
Just like they said in Avatar to Jake Sully: It is hard to fill a cup that is already full. Think like you never learn CAD before.
Translation:
The function you are looking for is ABSENT in Revit.
It remains a mystery to me why such a basic, standard feature in a cad/graphics program has been left out.
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Finally! Somebody gave me a straight answer!
People at Autodesk, please consider adding this feature in future releases. It'd be quite a time saver!
I agree with you!
It is strange that I can indicate the length of the wall or line, but I can’t indicate its direction!
This thread died many years ago.