Can someone explain rotating the view in 3D views????

[CADNoob96]

Hi team, 

I am forever trying to understand how the view (not an actual view such as an elevation, literally just looking at the model) rotates/orbits when in Revit in a 3D view. 

Does the view rotate only around the Internal Origin of Revit? That is the behavior I seem to observe? Or does it rotate around the Survey Point or the Project Base Point? Can I force Revit to rotate the view around a specific point I chose, for example the corner of a building? Again I am meaning in a 3D modelling context, not an elevation view or anything. 

The scenario where I have the most trouble with rotating my 3D view is when I import a survey into Revit from AutoCAD, and the internal origin of the AutoCAD model is at 0,0,0, (as it is with Revit), however the only features in the survey (lines, polygons etc) are off a large distance from the origin at coordinates xxxxxx,yyyyyy,zzzzzz, which is a huge distance away from the origin, so any rotation by holding shift and clicking the mousewheel just throws the model way off the screen??

I could move the entire survey to the origin in the AutoCAD file, however then the coordinates of all the points will be lost and it defeats the purpose of having the geospatial information in the first place....

Can someone explain how on earth I can get Revit to rotate the 3D view around a point of my choosing? 

CADNOOB96

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@CADNoob96 wrote:

Can I force Revit to rotate the view around a specific point I chose, for example the corner of a building?

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Yes, by creating any element where you want the pivot of orbit to be and selecting it. From now on orbit will be around that point.

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I could move the entire survey to the origin in the AutoCAD file, however then the coordinates of all the points will be lost and it defeats the purpose of having the geospatial information in the first place....

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Don't move it in AutoCAD, move it in Revit. Link it into Revit, by center to center, move it where you need it, and acquire coordinates. You shouldn't model anything in Revit far from the origin point anyway. Here is a screenshot.

Dark window are coordinates in AutoCAD.

[Ric_Weber]

And you don't have to create a special element to do the first option either.  Any element in the model will do.  Click a wall on the model, click an existing door...  that then becomes your pivot point.