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4 In the Manage Place and Locations dialog, select Location 1, and click OK.
On the Status Bar, notice you are still in Publish Coordinates mode and Revit Structure is waiting
for you to select another link.
5 On the Design Bar, click Modify to end the Publish Coordinates process.
NOTE If you intend to complete the next exercise of this lesson, you need this project file open and
in this view.
You have published the coordinates of the host project to the linked project. Both projects now share a
coordinate system and can be linked to one another using this common coordinate system.
Relocating a Project with Shared Coordinates
When a Autodesk Revit Structure 2009 model is linked into a host project, it is placed at a specific location.
Until coordinates are shared between the link and the host, this location is not saved outside of the host
project. However, if coordinates are published from the host to the linked project, then the location becomes
saved in the linked file. This location is defined as being a specified location with respect to the origin of
the Host.
Linked files using shared coordinates must have at least one defined location, but can have multiple additional
locations. An example of a linked file with many locations is a prototype model of a house that is placed
on 3 different lots. These three locations can be named Lot A, Lot B, and Lot C. Each of these lots is simply
a different position for the same house design. Each of the locations can then be saved within the linked
file for reference. This makes it possible to use the same building file to represent identical buildings on a
site.
In this exercise, you specify and save the two townhouse locations, even though both models originate from
one linked file. You also relocate the shared origin of the project.
NOTE This exercise requires the completion of the previous exercise within this lesson and the resulting project
files. If you have not completed the exercise, do so before continuing.
Specify a townhouse location
1 In the drawing area of the floor plan Level 1, move the cursor over the left townhouse and,
when the edges highlight, click to select it.
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