topic Re: Two Survey points in Revit Architecture Forum

Two Survey points

eric.guizzetti — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:53:06 GMT

Anyone seen this issue with 2020.1 where you have two survey points?

Re: Two Survey points

ToanDN — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:06:39 GMT

Two triangle icons? Do you have a Revit link?

Re: Two Survey points

hmunsell — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:21:27 GMT

so you have Links in your model? one may be coming from a link.

VG > select "+" next to link > select Not Overridden
Check Override Display settings
select Custom
pick the Model Categories tab
under Model categories, pick Custom
scroll down to Site (select the "+")
uncheck Survey Point for that link.

Re: Two Survey points

eric.guizzetti — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:29:08 GMT

There is nothing linked in.

Re: Two Survey points

barthbradley — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:47:15 GMT

Do you mean you are seeing this?

Re: Two Survey points

eric.guizzetti — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:24:38 GMT

No Links

NO LINKS

Re: Two Survey points

eric.guizzetti — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:25:49 GMT

I have no links in the model. NO LINKS

Re: Two Survey points

eric.guizzetti — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:26:30 GMT

That looks exactly like what I am seeing. Keep in mind I have no models linked in.

Re: Two Survey points

SteveKStafford — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 23:33:12 GMT

Close Revit, open, use Audit and open the file. Warnings? Does Review Warnings have any to report? What coordinates do these icons report when selected? Can you select both?

Re: Two Survey points

hmunsell — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:03:26 GMT

can you upload the file?

Re: Two Survey points

boyd_johnson — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:41:53 GMT

Any solutions to this? Trying to understand what is going on as I'm finding similar occurrence. I've removed all links and all worksets. One Survey Point is noted as "INTERNAL" and the other is noted as "PROJECT".

Is this "INTERNAL" intended to not the internal origin of the original revit file?

If this is intentional, why in the world did Autodesk not create a different symbol for this third coordinate element?

Re: Two Survey points

hmunsell — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:59:48 GMT

Can you upload the file with the issue for us to look at?

Re: Two Survey points

barthbradley — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:33:14 GMT

Are you asking about the Survey Point's "Internal" designation which indicates the Current Site Name/Zero Origin that the Survey Point's Coordinates are relative to?

Re: Two Survey points

boyd_johnson — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:46:53 GMT

sorry cant upload the files, it is a secure project.

@barthbradley yes, it does sound like that and looks similar to your images. Googling this topic I was able to find what the purpose is for these two survey points. Sometimes I see two of them in a project, sometimes just the one survey point - what drives this behavior?

Does not appear to be a lot of documentation on this...and why is it not a different symbol?

Re: Two Survey points

ToanDN — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:55:36 GMT

There can be multiple survey points in project, each presents a site location. Two is are the most common: one is Internal site location and the other is a shared site location. However, only one can be set as current at any given time so seeing two survey points in the same view doesn't make any sense.

You can save as to a new file, delete everything and share the file here.

Re: Two Survey points

boyd_johnson — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:07:37 GMT

gone now after a resave and reopen...now I just see internal.

When would more than one survey point show up, after linking other revit files via shared coord.? The files in questions have been provide by client and are established with lots of elements and multiple links (no longer found/attached). I'm thinking the additional Survey point was residual from when multiple files were originally linked via a shared coordinate.

Maybe I'm missing something, but would think I could find more documentation on why there would be two survey points showing.

Re: Two Survey points

Mohamed-Nassar — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:14:20 GMT

Close Revit and reopen it again may this disappear again.

Re: Two Survey points

barthbradley — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:23:44 GMT

@boyd_johnson: What I'm showing you in my screenshot is not two different Survey Points. I'm showing the same Survey Point located at different named Site origins. Sorry for the confusion. A single Project can have multiple Shared Sites listed under Manage Tab=>Location Panel=>Site Tab.

Re: Two Survey points

boyd_johnson — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:32:18 GMT

@barthbradley thanks. I think I need to read up more on this. I looked at the Location under Site and it only listed one site...Internal but the view had two. but it went away after a resave, close and reopen.

Re: Two Survey points

hmunsell — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:35:26 GMT

was this the first time it has happened? did it only happen during that one session?

since it went away after a restart, maybe check to make sure your graphics driver is up-to-date....