relocating a project

[brunelle]

What is the best way to move an entire project relative, including detail line and components? My interests are (for now) just to shift a project around the site. I have tried "relocating project" but I dont think I have shared coordinates. I am obviously a novice with revit.

[Yman]

It is probably easier to grab your topo and move it around and not move any of your building objects themselves. Topo's only relate to pads and it is easier to move/ rotate them if need be.

Y

[beegee]

As Yman says, moving an entire building can be difficult. Mirroring one can be a major headache.

Invariably, you will be left with major clean up work, redoing annotations, room tags etc.

Best solution is to link the model into a separate file containing your site ( topo, property lines etc ) and move that linked model around the site to your hearts content. You can then rotate and mirror with ease.

[gregcashen]

Rotating projects is also very problematic. Revit is aware of this.

[brunelle]

Thanks for the replies. Moving the topo seems to be the easiest way to proceed at this point of the project (still in schematic). Not sure how to link the model. Moving something does create a lot of baggage. Hopefully I have most elements of the project associated with the appropriate levels. Sloped site, moving the project in plan has buried building.

If I have created pads for the building, would it be best to erase them to move or rotate them about the site?

[Yman]

Yes it would be easier to just erase the pads as the have an association to the topo and you could get weird errors. It works best if the topo has no relationship to anything when doing all the schematic stuff. I think pads are the only things that would relate to the topo.

Y

[agreven]

Rotating projects is also very problematic. Revit is aware of this.

So has there been a follow up to this in 7.0 ?

All that I've been reading in various threads about rotating sheet views and text\view title orientation problems - lead me to think that I need to rotate my entire model. How do I do that?

I hit the ground running and started drawing my model ( my first , by the way - learning as I go) - and now realize I should have rotated it 90 degrees clockwise to fit on the sheets. ( in landscape). So I rotated my view, but all my annotation text goes vertical, and I can't change it!!

Am I screwed - or is rotating the entire building model an option ? ( when I try to from a specific view - I get all sorts of constraints errors)

thanks in advance!

[Scott D Davis]

dont try to grab the model and rotate it. You need to relocate "project north/true north". under Settings>Locations and Coordinates

[agreven]

Thanks - but that doesn't solve my annotation problem on the sheets. Sorry, I don't think I explained it well enough.

I started a model - let's call it a rectangle oriented vertically, with North up. great start. Then we wanted to flip the building, so instead of rotating everything , I rotated my project\true north settings 180 degrees. Then I wanted to place these views on sheets, but the building got a little too long for a vertical north up view, it needs to be horizontal with north to the right. Changed the view properties to 90 deg rotation...The problem is now all of my annotation text, limited to door\room tags, dimensions, and section tags are vertical ( with some section tags even being flipped 180 deg. ??!!) The only two fixes I've read about here are do the sheets in portrait, and cheat the true north - or change the orientation of each tag. I can't do this on section tags ( I think...) - and this doesn't seem very Revit-like, I'd do something like this in Autocad r10...

All I want to do is grab my entire model and rotate it.

Or am I approaching the problem the wrong way?? Does "True North" really matter ? or can I fake where true north is , in order to get my sheets to work?

Thanks in advance!

[Cathy Hadley]

faking true north is what Scott is suggesting I believe... and it works fine... as long as you don't need a real true north as well...

[k.armstrong]

dont try to grab the model and rotate it. You need to relocate "project north/true north". under Settings>Locations and Coordinates

But this rotates everything that is drawn

I have the situation where i have drawn the building and now i have to rotate it on the site

??

this would be a common thing in my projects -

EDIT

OK sorry - dooohhh

rotate the property lines and topo to the correct relationship to the building - then set view to true north then rotate true north so the site is correct (ie north of the site is true north)

then set views to whatever you want

[sbrown]

Its very important to understand that in revit you should always draw in "project North" then use the true north function to show it properly on the site. If you have multiple buildings then the process is to have a sep. site file created "real world", then link the sep buildings into that and share the coordinates, this will then set up your true north for each building. Its fairly powerful but complicated functionality. I recommend doing some tests with your files just to get a feel how it all works.