Change Coordinates of a Point
The Specify Coordinates at Point tool alters the Survey Coordinate System. If you provide alternate coordinates at a specific endpoint of a line or along a line the Survey Coordinate system "shifts" so those coordinates are valid for that location. You can't "see" those coordinates unless you use Report Shared Coordinates or apply a Spot Coordinate annotation (assigned to Shared Coordinates) to that point.
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Select the Survey Point icon and move it (clipped) to that location and then use SPaC.
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Specify Coordinates at Point (SPaC)... and Unclip the Survey Point before using SPaC otherwise it will move to mark the origin of the Survey Coordinate system instead...
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Spot coordinate won't snap to an intersection. Are you certain it is snapping to the same actual location? Sketch a model line from the intersections and compare using the same spot annotation type.
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1 - can you share the files? It would be easier to "see" them to know. (Just save stripped versions grids only for example)
2 - You can position the Project Base Point to a specific location in both projects and then link using Project Base Point to Project Base Point.
Generally Revit project files should be linked origin to origin. That assumes one discipline takes the lead and their file starts everything and then shares there model with other teams for the correct context (like grid/levels). Then models all line up from the outset.
When teams don't start that way they can move the Project Base Point (PBP) to the same agreed on location in all models and then link each other's models PBP to PBP.
The survey coordinate system can get defined at any time during the process but one file needs to define the relationship to site and the others can inherit it from that file using Acquire Coordinates.
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Not by picking or typing in coordinates. Link by Shared Coordinates does that but assumes the survey coordinate system has been configured and Acquire or Publish Coordinates have been used to configured the relationship.
Moving the PBP was deliberately configured to allow for placing models according to an agreed upon location separate from the shared coordinate system.
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"See" coordinates? No, not without putting something in the model you can attach a spot coordinate annotation on and then move to that location.
AutoCAD was built based on cartesian coordinates and in the old days we had to place things with that in mind. Revit was built deliberately to avoid having to "think" about cartesian coordinates while building the model. In other words, I just need a wall to go "this direction" 20 feet...
What are you trying to accomplish? What project problem are you trying to solve?
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