Locating the Project cardinal coordinate axes in Revit

Locating the Project cardinal coordinate axes in Revit

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Locating the Project cardinal coordinate axes in Revit

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Im having a mistery where the cardinal coordinate axes are located in the project space. Or what it actually even means. I have moved the project point but nothing changes.

 

im toying around with : http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2008/10/element-bounding-box.html but cant seem to figure out where these x and y come from. The following quote contains the information, but im not enough into revit to figure out where to find these axes.

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The bounding box returned by the Element BoundingBox property is parallel to the cardinal coordinate axes in the project space, so it has no relationship to the element coordinate system and is not necessarily the smallest possible circumscribing box, which would generally not be aligned with the cardinal axes.

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The revit api help file states:

Pass in a view to query view-specific (e.g., cut) geometry or nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) for model geometry. If view box is not known, will return model box; if model box is not known, will return nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic). Also note that this bounding box value may include geometry that is not obvious. For example, the "flip controls" that could be part of a family will be included in the computation of the bounding box even though they are not always visible in the family instance of the family.

 

but when i change the current view properties to use a scopebox and than get the rooms bounding box, it still returns the same value as when it did when i did not use the scopebox.

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