Tackle positioning issues favorably by sharing coordinates! Tackling file positioning issues rationally and conveniently remains major problem for Revit users when they link additional file in their model or project. Multiple discrepancies are confronted by Revit users in terms of geometrical positioning of linked files comparative to host model. For example if an MEP engineer working on his model in Revit MEP wants to acquire a thorough understanding of structural model developed in Revit structure by structural engineer he has to link the model. So when MEP engineer links a structural model in his MEP model, Revit spontaneously displays and alert informing users that linked model does not acquire the same coordinate system as host model. And since they do not share the same coordinate systems, Revit will automatically return back to center-to-center positioning.
The alert confronted by users must be cancelled by them at this point of time because positioning associated issues can only be tackled once the file is imported in the model. Revit also shows a dialog box which stipulates that it is incapable of getting the centre of imported geometry in the current project. Actually every
project that is worked out in Revit has internal coordinate system of its own, which is not familiar to other projects. When Revit users work on a project which doesn’t include linked files in it, in that case they do not need to be cautious about anything related to sharing coordinates. That is because they don’t have to deal with the geometrical positioning of any linked model. On the other hand when multiple files are liked in a project understanding their geometrical positioning becomes extremely important. So to favorably tackle geometrical positioning of linked files in the host model, it becomes highly significant for them to share the same coordinates. In other words same coordinates are shared for the linked and the host model so that their mutual positioning can be properly understood by the users. Shared coordinates must be secured or procured from a single file by users. Coordinates can be defined for all the other files by that file alone.