When I try to acquire coordinates from a linked survey cad file, I get this error messages shown below, the workset where the linked file is in is set as Editable.
Error Messages While Acquiring Coordinates
I was able to acquire the coordinates now, but I kept getting these messages whenever I synced. But I never changed the position of the linked file.
@syman2000 wrote:I would choose disable shared position or it will resave the Revit coordinate back the DWG which you don't want to happen.
I am trying to understand the warning messages.
- " location position changed "- Is this because I moved the survey after I brought it in the model?
- " retains the current placement of the link and clears the shared position parameters." - Yes, I will keep where the survey is in the model; but what does it exactly mean " clears the shared position parameters"? Don't we acquire coordinates from the linked survey so the Revit model will have the correct coordinates? Which means the linked survey coordinates is shared with the Revit model, so why clear it?
- I want to test if the Revit model has the right coordinates, I "ID" the coordinates of a point to get x, y ,z value in survey CAD file, but don't know how to do the same in Revit model - how to get the x, y, z of a point there?
@hliS658H wrote:
@syman2000 wrote:
I would choose disable shared position or it will resave the Revit coordinate back the DWG which you don't want to happen.
I am trying to understand the warning messages.
- " location position changed "- Is this because I moved the survey after I brought it in the model?
This is because you moved the survey DWG after you have acquired the coordinates. Moving it prior acquiring coordinates should not be triggering any warning.- " retains the current placement of the link and clears the shared position parameters." - Yes, I will keep where the survey is in the model; but what does it exactly mean " clears the shared position parameters"? Don't we acquire coordinates from the linked survey so the Revit model will have the correct coordinates? Which means the linked survey coordinates is shared with the Revit model, so why clear it?
"Retain..." option prevents you from moving the link. If you need to move the survey DWG after you have acquired coordinates then Reset Shared coordinates, then move, the re-acquire coordinates.
- I want to test if the Revit model has the right coordinates, I "ID" the coordinates of a point to get x, y ,z value in survey CAD file, but don't know how to do the same in Revit model - how to get the x, y, z of a point there?
After you have re-acquired coordinates, turn on Survey Point and look at its coordinates (N/S, E/W, Elev) and they should be matching (X,Y,Z) of the DWG.
If you want to check a random point, use Annotate > Spot Coordinates.
@ToanDN wrote:
- " location position changed "- Is this because I moved the survey after I brought it in the model?
This is because you moved the survey DWG after you have acquired the coordinates. Moving it prior acquiring coordinates should not be triggering any warning.
I acquired coordinates exactly after I reposition the survey dwg and the warning still showed up, I am not sure if it was because the site info from an old file still exists in the model?
Do not be so absolute. These steps are not so complicated, remove link - reset shared coordinates -link survey - reposition - acquire coordinates. It just happened - I didn't run into this issue with other projects which I started from scratch. I took over this one and an old survey with complete different name was linked until we got a brand new survey and even after the old file was not linked in the model anymore , it still shows next to "Survey Point". I suspected that caused this problem but don't know how to get rid of it.
As I already said, it is the name of the Site. You can literally change it to Mars or Uranus if you want. If you want to convince me then share the site model and the DWG here.
Found this from Autodesk website.
@hliS658H wrote:
Found this from Autodesk website.
That is a load of bullcrap. I always acquire coordinates via the properties palette. Never ever have had such issue.
Could you do me a favor and give the link so I can see who wrote that article (could not be @barthbradley)?
