Exporting with shared co-ordinates.

[beegee]

I have a site plan with 9 linked buildings ( 4 types and 5 copies).

The drawings are to be converted into another CAD sytem , using dwg as the medium.

When the master plan file is exported as dwg, the buildings forget where they live. If I go through the process of sharing project co-ordinates ( publishing and saving locations back to each separate building file, ... etc ) is that going to help them remember ? Or does this only work in a Revit environment ?

[David Conant]

Yes, sharing coordinates is the solution to your problem. Link your building files into the site and Publish the site's coordinates to the buildings. Save all. If you then export from the site file, you will get a dwg for the site, and a dwg for each link. In the site dwg, the links will be recreated as xrefs in the correct postions. Relax, and move on to more interesting tasks.

[beegee]

Thanks David,

I did the publish co-ordinates thing, but it doesn't work in the "othercad" environment, which is what I suspected. Probably works fine in Autocad, but when the dwg files are each loaded into another cad system, the individual buildings are not in their correct locations.

[beegee]

If anyone else strikes this problem, the work-around is to export the site plan (with the linked files set up with published co-ordinates ), then import it back into a clean revit file, then export it again.

That way, the building locations are no longer XRefed, but embedded, and will open in their correct locations an another CAD programme.
( This assumes you don't have access to autocad to expode the first export )