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Pile coordinates schedule

Pile coordinates schedule

Providing co-ordinates to piles is a fundamental process in the structural drawings for most large (and small) projects. I notice that people have been asking about the ability to do this in Revit at least as far back as 2021 and much earlier I should imagine. I used the exitech add on for a long time till they stopped it. now I have to export a dwg to AutoCAD where I use a lisp routine I wrote myself to produce a table I can then extract to excel and and then create pdf to link into Revit.

I did try to write a dynamo routine to do this but it does rely on knowing where your co-ordinate system is relative to the Revit internal origin and co-ordinate system. This is where my maths and time constraints let me down but I would imagine it is a simple exercise for Autodesk.

Isn't it about time this fundamental requirement was fulfilled by Revit.

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wr.marshall
Advisor

I found a dynamo routine awhile back that allows you to do this. You need to create a  East/West and North shared parameter. It then reads the location of object and fills in these values for you. You can then swap a required ( See 2nd and 3rd pic showing how to change). Use this screen shots to create.

 

Credit to whoever created this script (Wasn't me)

 

@kimberly_fuhrman-jones please move this to architectural forums if @robertawalker agrees on the below solution.

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robertawalker
Contributor

I haven't got time to go through this at the moment but it looks like it is doing the right things. The only thing I would say is that I believe object locations are taken from the internal origin, so this will work ok as long as the survey point is set at the internal origin (which is not always the case). otherwise it needs a whole calculation for transforming the co-ordinate systems. I would be careful about using it and make sure you have a system to check against proper surveyed coordinates. It will also have the same problem that the exitech addin had in that you need to explicitly run the routine every time you change a pile position. It won't automatically update.

This looks like it is as good as it can get at the moment but if it was dealt with properly within Revit (rather than relying on users to create there own work rounds) I am sure it could be designed to auto update whenever a pile was moved.

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