Autodesk 24000-000000-9860 - Revit Architecture - PC, User Manual

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You want may want several locations of a building to create a campus look. For example:
■ Several identical dormitory buildings on the same site
■ Identical condominiums on the same site
You might also want several locations for a unique building. In this case, you could import the building
into a site model and then move the building around on the site by choosing different locations.
Locations are modifiable in a project. You can delete, rename, and create new locations, and switch between
locations.
Seeing and Creating Named Locations
1 Click Settings menu
➤
Manage Place and Locations.
2 Click the Locations tab.
The Manage Place and Locations dialog lists the current named locations in the project. By
default, each project has a named location called Internal.
3 To create a new named location, click Duplicate.
4 Enter a name for the location, and click OK.
5 To rename an existing location, click Rename.
6 To delete an existing location, click Delete.
NOTE You cannot delete the last location.
7 To change the active location of the project, select it and click Make Current.
8 Click OK.
Repositioning Named Locations
After you have set up a shared coordinate system between the host model and linked models, the position
of the linked instance is determined by the corresponding location in the linked model. You can drag the
linked instance to another position inside the host model. When you do this, you are actually changing the
corresponding location in the linked model.
When you reposition the instance to a new location, you can save that change. There are several ways to
do this.
Warning Dialog
After you move the linked instance, a warning indicates that the linked file will change. This is because you
have defined a new position for the named location in the linked model file. In the warning dialog, you
can choose to save the linked file or save the new location later using the Manage Links command. If you
click Save Now, Revit Architecture saves the new location to the linked model file.
Recording a New Location with Manage Links
1 Click File menu
➤
Manage Links.
2 Click the tab for the model file type that you have linked. For example, if you have linked a
Revit model, click the Revit tab.
3 Click the linked file name to select it.
4 Click Save Locations.
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