How Do You Position Your Revit Project

[sam.z]

Hello

How do you position your Revit projects? We will be importing Utilities (Stormwater Pipes, Sewerage Lines) and Survey Data (topography) so we need to ensure that this data gets positioned in the exactly correct position in relation to our Revit building/s. We want to make sure that a pipe leaving the building will connect up correctly with a storm water pipe we imported. Plus we also want to detect Utility and Architectural element collisions. The data we will import will be DXF's/DWG's.

So how do you position your Revit project so Utilities, Civil and Survey data is positioned in exactly the correct place?

Do you:
- Just set the Base Point? Ie, set the base point to NS=6500000 EW=3500000 Elev=85 (UTM Coordinates for Sydney Australia)?
- Set both the base point and site location. Ie, set the Site location to 33.8672° S, 151.2075° E and the base point to (0,0,85)?
- Dont set the base point or site location and just set the Survey Point. Ie, set the survey point to NS=6500000 EW=3500000 Elev=85?
- Some other way I am not aware of?

What I am trying to figure out is the easiest and best way you ensure that imported Utilities, Civil and Survey data is positioned in exactly the correct place. So how do you do it?

[AJA14]

Simply link your file center to center or origin to origin. From the manage tab, select location, acquire coordinates and select the link. Now if you change the orientation to true north, the project will orient itself to the survey coordinates. Either way, now revit will read the correct coordinates depending on the spot coordinate type.

Regards,