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Acquire multiple coordinates on Revit Cloud Collaboration

Acquire multiple coordinates on Revit Cloud Collaboration

While working with Revit Cloud Collaboration feature in BIM360 Design, publishing shared coordinate to the other Revit file on the cloud is not possible. See here and here


As it is known, duplicating the coordinate method with publish coordinate button, which enables the same Revit link to be used at different locations, can be performed, but since this is not possible in BIM360 Design, a workflow requirement arises for each link to be positioned like that:

 

SCF: Shared coordinated file

TF: Target file

 

1. Download the file you want to publish coordinate (TF), to a local drive

2. Open the file you have shared coordinate (SCF)

3. Link TF to SCF

3. Publish multiple positions from SCF to TF

4. Archive or rename the existing TF in BIM360 Docs.

5. Upload shared coordinated TF file to BIM360 Docs by opening with detach option.

6. Reload from new path to link the uploaded file back to other related files

 

If the file does not have a multiple position, the following way can be usefull to avoid all this tiring work on Revit Cloud Collaboration:

 

***All files are on BIM360 Docs***

1. Link SCF to TF to get the coordinate

2. Locate SCF in the relative position manually around TF (Don't change, move, rotate TF, just locate SCF with a location makes TF's location correct)

3. Click acquire coordinate button and click SCF

***All files are on BIM360 Docs***

 

But this method is only valid for the files with single coordinate. It's not necessary to look for publishing coordinate at cloud (because publishing is only way to duplicate position), If acquiring coordinate is enhanced by providing multiple option with a way such as this:

 

If the duplicate menu is opened just as it appears in Publish Coordinate button when Acquire Coordinate button is clicked, multiple positioning can be possible on BIM360 Design. This can also be an alternative way for shared coordinate workflows on local worksharing.

1 Comment
Anonymous
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Very useful information, thank you for sharing it. I just wish Autodesk would implement it into ther bim360 services

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