Metric Tutorials - Autodesk

Linking Building Models
and Sharing Coordinates
Many projects consist of disparate buildings in an overall campus, or of a group of related but semi-independent sub-projects.
In these situations, you can use model linking and shared coordinates to create the campus within one project file while
allowing work to proceed on the individual building models in other project files. This maximizes efficiency, performance,
and productivity by working in a smaller project file while retaining the ability to place that building model into a larger
context.
Specific examples when you may want to use model linking and shared coordinates:
■ A campus plan that contains links to several structures.
■ A residential development in which a few different prototypes are configured differently in an area.
■ Comparison of alternatives on a site.
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In this tutorial, you link several building models within a single project file in which only a site plan has been developed.
You position the building models on the site plan, modify their visibility, and manage the links throughout the project.
In the final lesson, you share the coordinates so that the linked files remember their location within the host project.
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