Aligning models

[Teresa.Martin]

That is odd behavior. It should come in at 100' if everything else is scale correctly. Are you zooming out in the 3d view so you can see everything including the obelisk? Do you have the section box on by chance? I cannot think of anything else off hand that would cause this behavior other then what I just mentioned.
Anyone else care to weigh in here?

[rsloyer]

Section box was the issue.

This Revit model is something I got from the design team and added the Obelisk to, and there are some very strange things afoot with this model. Finding a view I could use was difficult and then figured out they had the section box turned on.

[rsloyer]

New problem, same topic.

I have three Revit models from three different sources, essentially created in a vaccuum from one another. I export them all to .nwc files. I then open the first in Navisworks, then append the other two. When I click on any area of the view cube, they all disapear. If I select one of them in the selection tree and click an area of the view cube that one model apppears, highlighted.

This would seem to indicate to me that the models are all nowhere near each other and that in order to view the entire file from the view I select on the cube it has to zoom so far out that the individual models are only tiny specs.

Any ideas how to get them better aligned?

[Bryan Thatcher]

If you have access to the Revit model, reset the Project Base Point and Survey Point close to the model, than re-export. That's where I would start.

[rsloyer]

If you have access to the Revit model, reset the Project Base Point and Survey Point close to the model, than re-export. That's where I would start.

Yes, I do have all three Revit models, and I've inserted Obelisks into all three. I will look into how to reset those items.

[kellpy67719556]

I would import the CAD file to revit origin to origin, then see the values of the xyz offsets. Merge the files together in navisworks and and plug those xyz values into the "File units and transform" function

Many thanks to your ! I understand this part, It is exactly what I need.