move building to lower elevation

[rclocker]

I'm working on a project that's in DD and fairly detailed. Project requirements have changed, requiring us to sink the entire building by 5' deeper into the ground. The project is shared with other separate Revit building projects and a shared site file. The Revit file also has its own local site topography within the file (the site is sloping). Any advide on the best way to drop the building down futher into its site and have it show up correctly in the shared site file? My first attempt, just grabbing all the levels in an elevation view and moving them down 5 feet, resulted in a very long Revit churn that I eventually aborted, assuming that if it took that long it was generating immesurable errors.

Thanks for any advice...

[mmc]

hey rob, welcome to augi! you might try locking all of the levels to eachother dimensionally and entering in the new elevation of your lowest elevation thereby dragging the whole building with it. not sure if that is much different than what you did.

[irwin]

I'm working on a project that's in DD and fairly detailed. Project requirements have changed, requiring us to sink the entire building by 5' deeper into the ground. The project is shared with other separate Revit building projects and a shared site file. The Revit file also has its own local site topography within the file (the site is sloping). Any advide on the best way to drop the building down futher into its site and have it show up correctly in the shared site file? My first attempt, just grabbing all the levels in an elevation view and moving them down 5 feet, resulted in a very long Revit churn that I eventually aborted, assuming that if it took that long it was generating immesurable errors.

Thanks for any advice...
In an elevation view go to Tools | Project Positioning/Orientation | Relocate this Project. Click anywhere on the screen, start moving the cursor straight down, type 5, Enter. This will move the project down 5' relative to everything else without regenerating anything. This is much better than trying to move levels because moving the levels will force regeneration of the whole building and isn't guaranteed to move everything down anyway.

[Mark Vorstenbosch]

Hi Irwin

Thanks for that one I always locked the levels and moved them down.
Now its so much simpler and quicker too.

[mmc]

Irwin, won't this approach lower his local site topography as well which it sounded like he wanted to stay put?

[rclocker]

Thanks Irwin, worked great. Matt, after dropping the building I went to a 3D view and grabbed the site and moved it up 5' (it had dropped when I moved the project). The whole thing took under 5 minutes.