Moving an inserted 3D Model to the correct position.

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

I am a complete newbie when it comes to Revit. I know very little about its work flow and process outside of maybe a 2 week crash course in college years ago that barely applies to my current usage.

I was tasked with creating a 3D model of a cooling tower for a contractors site plan. This model was made in inventor, so we could reuse work on a previous cooling tower to keep costs down. The contractor wants us to:

1) Download the master file from BIM 360 Doc Management;

2) Erase all the elements that are outside the scope of work;

3) Replace the baseline models of cooling towers with your prepared detailed Revit Family file - that way you will be sure that you have placed the instances in the correct position (coordinates);

4) Collaborate your Revit file to BIM 360 Doc Management.

I have the master file loaded and I've removed everything outside of our current scope of work, and I've imported the inventor assembly of the tower,  but I have no idea how I would move the new model to replace the old, or how to correctly define the location of the tower.

Any advice you can provide would be appreciated,

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

you will have to link the original file into yours, move the linked file until it aligns with your file, then acquire coordinates from the linked file. I would talk to the MEP consultant on the team to assist with linking on that file. 

[barthbradley]

Forget step #2 and #3. You don't need to erase or replace anything.  @Anonymous  is quite right. You just need to insert (via Insert Tab=>Link) the contractor's site plan into your project environment and pull its coordinates into your project via Manage Tab=>Coordinates=>Acquire Coordinates.  Then manually place/align your Water Tower Families to the "baseline" Water Towers shown in the site plan.  At that point, you can unload the site plan from your project, or  hide it in your project views.