Shared coordinates

[Anonymous]

I have so many problems with linking Revit files to each other. I suspect it has something to do with shared coordinates. Please help me!

As a test, I open a new project and link my Structure, Site and Architecture models in this new file. They are all slightly rotated in relation to each other. (one happens to be in the correct rotation) How can I fix this?

But when I open each of these three files individually,  true north always is in the right position on plans.

I have reseted shared coordinates and acquired and nothing happens.

[barthbradley]

I'm not clear about what you Acquire Coordinates from, but aligning them is a manual process. Once they are aligned properly with each other in one Project, that's when you Acquire - or Publish - Coordinates.  

[Anonymous]

I create new project, link my three models in it, then I manually rotate two of them. They are now correct. Then I acquire from Structure which was the files that happened to have a correct orientation (for some reason others didn't). Having acquired now I publish to the other two files.

Now a quick test. Yet another new project and I link all three and the are misaligned. What am I doing wrong? 

[Anonymous]

  After my manual rotation of these two linked models, their 'project base point' look like this.

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Are you Linking them into the Parent Project via Auto-Shared Coordinates?  Did you Publish to a Named Site and not the Default Internal?  

[Anonymous]

It worked for me when I linked my files using 'shared coordinates 'rather than 'auto internal to internal' after acquiring from the right model through the creation of a new 'site'. Also, it works when I link 'project base to project base' except for one file.

But the problem I think is somewhere else. Trying to 'fix' (mess up) my orientation problem a month ago I rotated 'project base point'. Now I should rotate it back into place but no clue how. I know the values but I just cannot do it!

Question:

(picture below) Inside the actual project file (no links) how to make 'Angle to True North' be =0. How can I rotate this datum without using 'rotate true north' button which does rotate it but makes it display as 'angle to true north = 2.81'

Two other files which have correct orientation have it =0 and this is correct.

(The reason I am trying to do it so my Revit can once again match up with my Revit inside Rhino)

[Anonymous]

I guess I keep 'angle to true north' = 0 and rotate the geometries. Oh dear, what a mess. I think this is how it ended up with this way of =-2.81.

[barthbradley]

I'm not clear what the issue is. You say linking it by Shared Coordinates works, as well it should.  Now you are talking about Angle to True North. Looks to me like thy all align perfectly with one another, as well they should.  Are you wanting True North at 12 o'clock in the View?  Set your View's Orientation to "True North" then.     

[Anonymous]

Yep. I must have manually moved the geometry itself at some point. Now after rotating all geometry back to place (so many constraints were broken....). Now all three files can be linked with 'project base to project base' without having to do shared coordinates and also it matches up 'Rhino inside Revit'