MOVE BUILDING

[rschladweiler]

I need to move a ten story building so that the building level elevations correspond to "above sea level" elevations. Currently level 1 displays 0'-0" on elevations, and it needs to display 29'-9". How do I do this?? I've tried "Relocate this Project" and moved building up 29'-9", but it didn't change level diplays. I'm lost, please help!

[hand471037]

I need to move a ten story building so that the building level elevations correspond to "above sea level" elevations. Currently level 1 displays 0'-0" on elevations, and it needs to display 29'-9". How do I do this?? I've tried "Relocate this Project" and moved building up 29'-9", but it didn't change level displays. I'm lost, please help!

You relocated the Project, but it didn't change the displays because your levels are probably still set to 'Project' instead of 'Shared'. Here's how to fix that:

1. Pick one of your Levels.
2. Go to Properties.
3. Hit the 'Edit/New' button on the top right.
4. Hit Duplicate on the Type Parameters box to make a new Level Type.
5. Give it a name like 'True Elevation Level' or something and hit OK.
6. Set the Elevation Base to 'Shared' instead of 'Project'
7. I also set the tag to use the square end, instead of the round one, so there's a visual difference between the two in the drawings.
8. Hit 'OK' & 'OK' again.
9. Now you have two Level types in your Project, one that reads from Project Zero, and one that reads from True Zero. The True Zero (or Shared) ones will report the actual elevation of something (since you relocated the Project vertically) while the Project ones will report the relative elevation from your Level 1.
10. To get fancy, make a custom Level Head Annotation Family that reports decimal feet instead of feet-and-inches, and make your civil engineer happy.

p.s. this also works with Spot Elevations...

p.p.s. it's called 'Shared' because it can be 'Shared' between multiple Revit projects via a Shared Coordinate System. Kinda like the WCS in AutoCAD, but better, but more complex...

[aaronrumple]

A level line can be set to either an Elevation Base of "Project" or "Shared." What's yours set to?

[gbrowne]

Just used this method. Saved the day. Cheers!

[SCShell]

Hey there,
Great tutorial Jeff!
Thanks
Steve

[jarod.tulanowski]

great explanation jeff thanks

[Mike Hardy-Brown]

Augi Saves the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had to relocate a project, I have been copying, pasting and ready to smash the pc

Jeff thanks a bunch, you have saved me an all nighter!!!!:beer:

[Justin Marchiel]

what if i have a large resort with copies of the same building. how do i get the shared elevation to work for the same building at multiple different heights?

Justin

[David Conant]

Create the "multiple" building as a separate Revit file and link it into the main project.
Locate/orient instances as you like in the main project.
Select each instance in turn and "Publish" shared coordinates to it. You will be asked to name a Location fore each such instance.
When you open the building file again, use Settings|Manage Locations to select which Location will be the current one.
Any elements that report position relative to shared coordinates will be based on that current Location.
At any time you can switch to a different Location and the reported positions will change as well.