Revit 2017, reloading dwg moves link

[Anonymous]

Ran into this little issue today while trying to get certain info in a drawing to show in Revit.

When I reload the linked dwg it moves about 90' to the NW.  My view is set for True North, Site and Project North are set to 0,0,0.  Oh, and the link is pinned.

Removing the dwg link and linking it back in, origin to origin, it comes back in its proper location.

And I know it is in the proper location as the imported points for the surface is in the same spot as the dwg before it was reloaded.

For now this is no big deal, but once I have overrides in place it will be a pain to have to move it back each time I reload/reload from.

[barthbradley]

What about Shared Coordinates? 

[Anonymous]

That is the survey point....it's at 0's.

Guess I can try publishing it and see if it holds...

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Anonymous

I've encountered this behavior before in certain files.

Can you share the dwg and Revit file to test? I can share a private upload folder.

Regards,

[ToanDN]

I have had it happened in a project. Use shared coordinates will fix it.

[Anonymous]

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@ToanDN wrote:
I have had it happened in a project. Use shared coordinates will fix it.

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Tried it...it still jumps.  

What is odd is I wblocked the site and it doesn't come in at the same location, but the origin is 0,0,0 in CAD.

Works the way it is supposed to in 2018.  Sigh..may have to upgrade everyone to 2018 now.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

So Mr. Stafford figured it out for me....  I have to reload the dwg in the same view that I linked it into to start.  So if I brought it in via shared coordinates into a Project North view, then I need to reload in a Project North view, else it will rotate.    Which really it doesn't rotate, it just moves about 200'.  The rotation from true north is only 6 deg.

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Anonymous

Glad to hear that this is resolved. Can you share a screencast if possible?

I'm looking into similar cases of double-moves and why this behavior occurs in linked files.

Thanks,