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Architecture STEP SIX - CHANGE THE BUILDING LOCATION As mentioned earlier changing the building position and orientation can happen for many reasons. This section will apply the same change to the building that we did at the end of the previous section for small projects. By comparison I believe you’ll begin to appreciate the elegance of using a separate site project file. EXERCISE 6 - CHANGE THE BUILDING LOCATION 1. Using Revit Architecture 2010 Open the file: Large Project Master Site E04.rvt and Open the floor plan view: Site. 2. Zoom in Region - Around the North West corner of the site, Select the Linked Building Model, Drag/Move it over to the ALT BLDG Mark block in the survey file, as soon as you do a Warning dialog appears (see Figure 7). Click OK.
Figure 7- Responding to the Shared Location Warning
This will allow you to continue to adjust the building. If you click Save Now then Revit will publish the new location immediately. If you aren’t done, we aren’t, you’ll be prompted again as soon as you adjust it. The OK choice leaves it up to you to choose when to publish the changes later. 3. Rotate/Align/Move it until it is parallel to the West property boundary and the intersection of the Reference plane and the building’s concrete pad are aligned with the ALT BLDG Mark block. 4. Rename the Location - Manage Ribbon > Location, Select North Boundary (current), Click Rename, Enter West Boundary. Click OK. 5. Save the file, Revit will prompt you to Save the new location information to the Building Model project file, Click Save. Close the File. 6. Using Revit Architecture 2010 Open the file: Large Project Building.rvt and Open the floor plan view: Site. You should see that the building is already oriented correctly based on what we did in the Site project. Hopefully it is obvious that any change we made to the building file’s location in the site file would be represented here now as well as increasing or decreasing the elevation of the building. It reduces the task of repositioning a building to simple use of the move/drag/align tools. Once finished just saving the file passes the information back to the building. Now let’s create a second instance of the building in the site.
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STEP SEVEN - PLACE A COPY OF THE BUILDING This too is a very simple process. Select and copy the building. Move the copy to where it needs to go and adjust its elevation. Once done it is only necessary to publish the location information again taking care to define a second location to refer to later. Imagine a large development project where a considerable number of unit designs are repeated. Revit will allow you to place copies of these units and store specific location information that can be shown in the unit project file later if necessary. Let’s see how this works now. EXERCISE 7 - PLACE A COPY OF THE BUILDING 1. Using Revit Architecture 2010 Open the file: Large Project Master Site E06.rvt and then Open the floor plan view: Site. 2. Right Click in the view, Zoom Region into the North West corner of the site. Select the building model, Copy it and place it near the original BLDG Mark block in the survey. As before, Rotate/Move/Drag/Align it with the BLDG Mark block and the North property boundary. 3. Create a new Section through the building at the West property boundary. This building is now located where contours are at a higher elevation so it should be raised to 1286 feet. Open the Section view: Section 2, Adjust the crop boundary of the view to make it easier to see what you are doing, Move it up by 11 feet (original 1275 + 11 = 1286). 4. Define the new Location - Manage Ribbon > Coordinates > Publish Coordinates, Select the copied building at the North property boundary. When the Manage Place and Locations dialog appears (as shown in Figure 8), Rename the existing named location to: West Boundary, Duplicate the West Boundary and use the new name: North Boundary. Click OK to close the dialog.
Figure 8- Defining the new Location and naming
5. Save the file as a new file: Large Project Master Site E07.rvt. When the Location Position Changed dialog appears Click Save. Close the project file. 6. Using Revit Architecture 2010 Open the project file: Large Project Building.rvt and Open the floor plan view: Site. 7. Examine the locations that are available - Manage Ribbon > Location, Click North Boundary, Click Make Current, Click OK. The building will change its orientation accordingly. Open the elevation view: South, notice the elevation is 1275’-0”. Change the location - Manage Ribbon > Location, Click West Boundary, Click Make Current, Click OK. Level annotation values change to reflect the elevation for this building location (1286’-0”). Open the floor plan view: Site. The orientation has reverted to the previous location. winter_2010