Civil Surface not importing correctly

[Spector567]

Good Afternoon. I'm hoping that someone can help me out with what should be a simple problem.

I'm a civil user trying to help out our Revit group import civil surface in our drawing using program versions 2022. We have a solution that on the Revit side but there has to be an easier way.

Long story short we will export a civil drawing surface that is in Local co-ordinates at 50000, 60000 using shared co-ordinates and publish surface. However Revit comes with an error saying that both drawings do not have the same coordinate system. As a temporary fix I shifted the surface up to it's real world location and repeated the shared coordinate process and everything worked, but this is less than ideal and creates other issues.

I believe the problem is that  Revit is kicking any location out that does not fit within a world coordinate system. 

Is there anyway to import the surface with a shared location without it being in a world coordinate system but a local coordinate system?

[barthbradley]

Not understanding the workflow. Wouldn't you link the Civil into Revit via Auto Positioning - Center to Center, unpin and reposition the Civil in the RVT to where it belongs IN RELATIONSHIP to the RVT Model and then Acquire Coordinates?   

...sounds like you are Linking the Civil in via Shared Coordinates.  If so, you've missed the step where you set up Shared Coordinates.  

Help | Linking DWG Files with Grid Coordinates | Autodesk

Help | Link a DWG File and Use Shared Coordinates | Autodesk

[Spector567]

I believe we have done that part just fine. The surface Link process works perfectly on surveyed sites set in there real world location without any issues. So I believe we are following the workflow correctly.

However, not all civil sites are set at there real world location for various legal, and survey reasons. We refer to these sites as "local" coordinates. When we follow the exact same workflow that previously worked on "local" sites Revit produces an error that says that the imported surface is not within the coordinate system and it is being centered on Revit project.

I'm not sure why it will accept a reference point at 50,000,000 from zero but not 5,000.

[barthbradley]

Are you using this workflow?

Help | Specify Coordinates Before Linking Site Data | Autodesk

...this might help you:  

[SteveKStafford]

One possibility: check the DWG file for a UCS called Revit60-DefaultLocation. If there is one, delete it. It should import properly afterward.