topic Re: Inaccuracy Frustration in Revit Architecture Forum

Inaccuracy Frustration

GegH1 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:55:38 GMT

Has anyone had accuracy issue in Revit?

I have a column sitting on a floor. the corners are meant to sit on top of each other, blue dot on the red dot.

I have snaped to end point when zoomed out, as i zoom in you notice they aren't sitting on each other.

Not only that, when i select the column the blue lines appear indicating the object is in a third location.

This inaccuracy causes an issue when working with groups and assemblies as you end up with floors or columns overlapping, this is when Revit decides to be accurate and warns you.

Re: Inaccuracy Frustration

Basam.Yousif — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:21:36 GMT

What is the distance to the INTERNAL ORIGIN point?

Re: Inaccuracy Frustration

GegH1 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:52:02 GMT

Hi Yousif

It's on it. The internal Origin point is within the structure, nothing further than 20m

Geg

Re: Inaccuracy Frustration

Basam.Yousif — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:03:40 GMT

Does this issue also occur in Acad if you were to export this view as a DWG?
Revit graphics are not as good as Acad's, but let's verify. Maybe your graphics drivers need an update, or hardware acceleration is off.

Re: Inaccuracy Frustration

GegH1 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:06:35 GMT

Yes, the resulting drawing is off too

Re: Inaccuracy Frustration

SteveKStafford — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:54:25 GMT

Do you have any DWG files linked into the project? If so did you get a warning about the file's extents or any other complaint when linking/importing it?

What is the column family? Stock content or something someone else made? Structural columns (stock) use Detail Level so you might find subtle differences in Coarse, Medium and Fine where the stick symbol (Coarse) vs basic profile (Medium) and actual profile (fine) are used.

Re: Inaccuracy Frustration

GegH1 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:01:17 GMT

No.
This was completely created in Revit

Re: Inaccuracy Frustration

SteveKStafford — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:09:28 GMT

Share a copy of the file with just the elements involved so we can poke at it?