Metric Tutorials - Autodesk

■ Auto - Origin to Origin: The origin of the imported geometry is placed at the invisible origin of the Revit
Structure model.
■ Auto - By Shared Coordinates: When using Model Linking in conjunction with Shared Coordinates, this
option will place the link at a predefined location.
RELATED See the lesson, Sharing Coordinates Between Building Models on page 631.
Manual placement options:
■ Manual - Origin: The origin of the linked document is centered on the cursor.
NOTE Revit Structure projects have an internal coordinate system; however, this system is not exposed to the
user.
■ Manual - Base Point: Not applicable for linked Revit Structure Files. This option is grayed out.
■ Manual - Center: The geometric center of the linked document is at the cursor location.
This tutorial requires write permission to all the training files used. Because training files are used in multiple
tutorials and are normally installed as read-only, you need to copy the three training files to a different
directory and make them writable. If you are comfortable doing this using Windows Explorer, you can do
so. The required files can be found in the Common folder of the Training files: c_Site, c_Townhouse,
c_Condo_Complex. Otherwise, use the following steps to copy the training files to a new location.
Save training files to different folder
1 Create a new folder on your hard drive called Model Linking.
2 On the File menu, click Open.
3 In the left pane of the Open dialog, click Training Files, and open Common\c_Site.rvt.
NOTE You may need to scroll down in the left pane to see the Training Files folder.
4 On the File menu, click Save As, navigate to the Model Linking folder you created in the first step,
and save the file there.
5 On the File menu, click Close.
6 Repeat the previous five steps for the following files:
■ c_Townhouse
■ c_Condo_Complex
7 Open the Model Linking folder, select the three files, right-click, and click Properties.
8 Clear Read-only, and click OK.
All three files now reside, with write permission, in the Model Linking folder that you created.
Link condo complex into site project
9 On the File menu, click Open.
■ Navigate to the Model Linking folder.
■ Select c_Site.
■ Click Open.
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