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Metric Tutorials - Autodesk

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10 In the Save As dialog, navigate to the Model Linking folder you created in the first exercise, name<br />

the file Site_Project, and save it as an RVT file.<br />

NOTE If you intend to complete the next lesson, Sharing Coordinates Between Building Models, it<br />

is important that this file exist in the same directory as the condo complex and townhouse projects.<br />

In this exercise, you managed the linked files by unloading and reloading the townhouse project. In the<br />

next lesson, you learn how to share the coordinates between the host and linked projects.<br />

If you intend to complete the next lesson now, leave the project file open in its current view.<br />

Sharing Coordinates Between Building Models<br />

In this lesson, you learn how to share coordinates between project files so that you can correctly locate<br />

building models with respect to each other. When used in conjunction with model linking, you can keep<br />

track of the multiple locations in which a linked building model may reside.<br />

When you share coordinates between projects, you are deciding which coordinate system will be used by<br />

the two files. In essence, you are establishing a shared origin point.<br />

TIP You can also use shared coordinates with linked DWG files. When Revit project views are exported to DWG,<br />

project or shared coordinates can be specified in the Export Options dialog.<br />

This lesson requires the completion of the lesson Linking Building Models on page 614, and the resulting<br />

project files. If you have not completed the previous lesson, do so before continuing.<br />

Acquiring and Publishing Coordinates<br />

In this exercise, you publish the coordinates from a host project file to two different buildings that are linked<br />

to that project. The host file consists primarily of site components.<br />

When you link a <strong>Autodesk</strong> Revit Structure 2009 project into another project (the host project), you can<br />

choose to use the coordinates of either the host project or the linked project. In most cases where the host<br />

project consists primarily of site components and the linked projects contain the building models, the host<br />

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