- [Instructor] So in the previous video,
we walked through the process of setting shared coordinates
for projects in BIM 360,
and it was a little different
than the standard process, to be sure.
Now, I want to stay on the topic of shared coordinates.
But in this video, I want to talk about what happens
if you need to change them.
So sometimes a building needs to be moved on the site.
You've changed the location.
You've changed the orientation.
How would you go about doing that?
Well, in a project that's not in BIM 360,
you would just simply move and rotate it.
And Revit would generate a warning when you try and do that.
You could dismiss the warning, complete the modification,
and then just simply resave the shared coordinates,
and everything would update.
It's not that easy when you're working in BIM 360.
So let me show you.
If I select the linked model,
now I'm working in the outbuilding,
so the linked model is the site model here,
and try to either move or rotate it,
it will generate a warning,
as we expect, but this warning is a little different.
It says we can't move a pinned element,
and there's no option to ignore that.
So I will cancel.
And I'm thinking, okay, well, that's not so bad.
I know how to deal with pinned elements.
I just need to unpin it, right?
So I'll select the model again,
and if I direct your attention to the modify panel,
you will see that the unpin tool is grayed out.
And in fact, for that matter,
the pin tool's also grayed out,
and you could try the keyboard shortcut of U-P for unpin,
and that won't work, either.
So pinning is disabled
when you have a link file
using shared coordinates in BIM 360.
So that's going to make this a little more challenging.
What else can we do?
Well, maybe you're thinking,
what if we come over here to the properties pallette
and click on the shared site button here,
and just turn off the shared coordinates for a moment.
So do not share, okay, that sounds pretty good.
Now, can I move the file?
Yep, sure can, I can rotate it,
I can make any changes I want.
But here's the problem.
The minute you try to reestablish the shared coordinates,
it's not the dialog that we saw originally,
where you're setting them up in the first place,
it's simply defaulting back to what's already here.
And there's no option to record a new position.
That's grayed out.
So the only choice we're left with
is moving it right back to internal,
which will just snap it right back where we started from,
and pin it again.
So we seem to be kind of stuck, right?
Well, there is a way to get around this,
and the workflow is maybe a little bit complicated,
but it's not so bad.
Now there are a couple different workflows
that you can use for this,
but I'd like to show you what I've found
to be the simplest way to do this.
Okay, so the first thing that we're going to want to do
is create a new file.
So we're going to go up to the file menu,
highlight new,
choose project,
and you could start with any empty file that you want.
I'm just going to use the default architectural template.
Now honestly, that's all I need to do.
We could move onto the next step,
but I'm going to do a couple optional things first.
I'm going to go to the site plan.
I will close level one, so keeping only the site plan open.
Go to my wall command, and just draw anything relative
to these markers in the middle here.
I'll do a circle, cause it's real easy to snap to that,
and make that the center of the circle.
Cancel out of there,
and then I'm going to save this,
file save.
I'll put it on my desktop,
and I'm just going to call this
reset coordinates.
Alright.
My project is still open in the background,
so I want to switch to that tab.
Now I know they both say site,
so that can be a little confusing,
so if you're not sure which one is which,
just hover over it
and you want the out building site tab
to be the current one,
and of course it's pretty easy to tell
that you're in the right one,
because you can see the out building.
Now we're going to go to manage,
and we want the transfer project standards command
on the settings panel.
So let's click that.
Now, here there are dozens of things
that you could transfer.
Let's check none.
I want to clear all of that.
Now, verify that at the top,
it says copy from the reset file that you just created.
That's important.
You want to make sure that we're copying from that file only.
Scroll down,
and you're looking for the project info item.
Check only that.
And then click okay.
Now, it will recognize that
some of the types you're trying to transfer
already exist in the current file,
and the one that we're most concerned with
is this guy right here.
The shared site called internal.
Let's overwrite that.
And notice that the survey point,
the little triangle,
just moved back to its default postilion,
and is now reset to 000.
So at this point,
we have effectively removed shared coordinates
from this out building file.
That means that you can now freely move
and rotate this site model.
So I'm going to go to rotate,
tap my space bar to reset the center of rotation,
pick the midpoint here at the roof,
and then just rotate this a few degrees
to change the orientation of the building,
and then I'll go to the move command,
and maybe move it a little bit closer
to the parking lot as well.
So I just want to do this
in fact, let me move it even closer,
I want to make sure that it's really noticeable,
the change that we've made.
So whatever amount of rotation,
whatever amount of movement you do,
you just want it to be noticeable when you're done.
Okay, so once I've done that,
now it's just a matter of selecting the site model,
clicking where it says not shared on properties,
and notice that we're back
to the original shared coordinates dialog,
where we can acquire anew the coordinates
from the site model,
so let's reconcile that.
The survey point will move again,
and now it's out here somewhere,
lining up with the building site,
and let's synchronize.
The comment is optional,
but I like to put it in.
And then when that's complete,
let's go back to our home screen,
reopen our admin building,
and when it opens,
you can see that the out building
has now shifted to its new location and orientation.
So, it's a little bit of a workaround,
but you can see that it's quite effective,
and not very difficult to do.
So if you need to move one of your buildings on your site,
then I've found that the most efficient way to do that
is to reset the shared coordinates first,
and then just simply reapply them.