Place objects via real world coordinate

[scowsert]

I'm surprised I've never ran into this before. I have a survey showing me the location of different objects on the site. I'd like to put an object in my model and tell it, its coordinate. N10368194.821 E2612490.944.

Can I do that? How?

[Scott Womack]

Revit does not "Think" in those types of terms.

[scowsert]

So how do I place a tree at a coordinate provided from the surveyor then?

[scowsert]

Right now I'm thinking of doing it in (gasp) autocad, linking it in then placing my stuff on top of the autocad stuff. Whats that strange pain in my side?

[dhurtubise]

I have a project were we read that information but as far as placing them, no. Too time consuming if you ask me.
What elements are you trying to place with those coords exactly?

[Steve_Stafford]

You can use a Spot Coordinate to identify the location of a spot that an object occupies. You can then move it by altering by the necessary amount to get it into that new location.

If you know what the layout is supposed to be based on this coordinate you can turn on the work plane and adjust the spacing, move the grid so an intersection is on that spot and then layout the stuff you need placed accurately.

Not the most efficient process...but possible.

[MikeJarosz]

When is the Factory ever going to give us some way of directly locating objects in space?

[Steve_Stafford]

Mind is fuzzy at the moment but I think there is a tool in the Extensions for Revit to place objects at coordinates.

[dhurtubise]

Mind is fuzzy at the moment but I think there is a tool in the Extensions for Revit to place objects at coordinates.

It's the element positioning tool but it's not for Real World positioning.

[scowsert]

I have a project were we read that information but as far as placing them, no. Too time consuming if you ask me.
What elements are you trying to place with those coords exactly?

Well I'm building an existing site. I have the locations of fences corners of existing buildings etc... Then I need to put in new buildings. I really couldn't find a way to do this within Revit. Trust me i'm a fan of revit but this just seems odd.

So I'm firing up autocad putting points in, sketching in buildings (polylines) then bring that into Revit and linking in my Revit buildings and aligning it to my polylines pubilishing the buildings location . Really I'm doing it twice. I figured I can't be the first to do this and perhaps firing back into autocad is the norm. I don't see any other way to do it. Its not that big of deal but seems crazy to have to have autocad around to do this type of work. Which building project doesn't have an existing site? Does every site plan come from a surveyor in dwg?