- In the last two videos we looked at shared coordinates
in the BIM 360 environment.
I want to look at one more scenario here in this video
regarding shared coordinates and that's how to deal with
multiple sites.
So, there are times when working in projects where you
either want to use the same building model multiple times
on the site, or where you want to have more than one
possible site location for the same building model.
In both cases, you would use the site functionality that
is available for shared coordinates.
But it's not very easy to do this in BIM 360.
And in fact, if you read that help file link that came
up when you first set up shared coordinates using Bim 360,
they detailed a rather lengthy work flow here to deal with
this very issue.
So, it talks about multiple copies of the building, and
duplicating sites, and creating multiple sights, and then
transferring project standards.
So, it's a lot of the same steps that we've already looked
at.
So, what I'm going to do is walk through a workflow with you
that's based on that one in the help file, but its' got
fewer steps and is a little bit simpler.
But you are certainly welcome to go through that help file
article and do that workflow as well and compare and
contrast.
Okay, let's get started here.
I am in my little outbuilding model and I've got a link here
to the site model.
And, what I would like to do is consider a different
location for this outbuilding, but not lose the original
location just in case.
So, if I decide I want to go back again, I want an easy
way to do that.
So, let's zoom in here on the building model, select the
project base point, and you'll see some coordinates appear
on that icon.
Now, these are actually editable like temporary dimensions.
So, you could actually click right on those numbers if you
wish, and then change the numbers or copy that number, do
whatever you want with that value.
I'm going to just click away from it without changing it.
There's a little bit nicer way to get to those values, I
think, and that is to go to the manage tab, on the project
location panel, the coordinates drop down has this specified
coordinates at a point command.
So, I'll choose that, and then I'll click right there on
that project base point, and it will display all of those
same values that we just saw, but I think it's just a little
bit easier to get at than here in this window.
Now, what I want to do is copy each of these values and
store them off somewhere for safe keeping.
So, I'm going to just select this first value and do Control C,
and actually I'll keep going Control C, Control C,
and Control C.
Now, the reason I'm doing that is, in the latest version
of Windows 10, you have an extended clipboard.
So, if I hold the windows key down, and do the V key
anywhere, that will show me that extended clipboard, and
notice that it saved all four values.
Now, just sort of click anywhere to make that go away.
Now, if you don't have access to the extended clipboard,
if you don't have that feature turned on, or you're not on
the latest version of Windows, you can just open a notepad
file, a text file, and copy and paste the values over there
for safe keeping.
It's up to you.
Alright, so I'm going to cancel out of here without changing
anything.
And then, I will cancel the command.
So, what I've effectively done is preserved this location.
Now, I'm going to go through the workflow that we did in the
previous video, to reset everything.
So, if you didn't watch the previous video, then I
encourage you to do so now.
Now, I already have my reset file created and open here in
another tab.
So, I want to make sure that that's open in the background.
I will go to transfer project standards, check none, make
sure that my reset file is what is active at the top,
scroll down to project info, select it, click OK, and then
override it to reset my coordinates back to zero.
Once I've done that, I will select my site model and I'll
zoom out a little bit, and think about where I want the
new location to be, and I will
move it
over into this corner of the site.
And then, perhaps, rotate it slightly.
Like so.
Then, I'll keep it selected, click the not shared button on
the properties palette, set up new shared coordinates by
reconciling and that gives me a new set of shared
coordinates, and if I click on the project base point link,
you can see that all the new coordinate values have been
input here.
Okay, so that was all just a review of what we did in the
previous video.
So now what we're going to do is bring back the saved version
that we have on our clipboard.
So how do we do that?
On the project location tab, there's a location button.
I'll click that.
This displays the location weather in site dialog.
I will click the site tab.
There's a single site in this file called internal.
It's current.
I'm going to duplicate that
and give it some descriptive name.
I'll just call it original location.
Click the make current button and that now is the current
location, and when I click OK, notice that nothing
changes on screen.
Because it's just an exact copy of internal.
So now what I do is I go back to the specified coordinates
at a point tool.
I click right on that project base point, and I will set
these values to the values that are on my clipboard,
or that you saved off in your external text file.
And I copied them from top to bottom, so I will paste them
from bottom to top.
So, I want to make sure I get the right values in the right
places.
This one shouldn't have changed because we didn't change
the Z elevation, but I'll paste it just in case.
And there are those four values.
I'll click OK.
And notice that everything shifts back to its original
position.
Now, if you go back to the location weather and site
dialog, click the site tab, you can select your internal
location, make it current, click OK, and it will shift
and then click back into that dialog,
go to the original location,
make it current, and everything will shift.
So I now have two different locations in this file that are
each sited the way that I want.
I will synchronize and optionally give it a comment.
And then finally go back to my home screen, reopen my
admin building, and let's test it out.
So now back here in my admin building, it's as simple as
selecting the linked model, clicking on the not shared
button, and choosing which location we want it to go to.
And notice we have the two choices.
So, if I click OK on internal, it jumps over to here.
And if I change it back to the original location,
it jumps back to here.
I'm not wild about the fact that I have to do all these
extra steps of resetting the coordinates and then
establishing the new coordinates, but it's not a very
difficult process to do, and if you just follow through it
systematically, you can actually set up as many name sites
as you like, and use those very easily in your BIM 360
linked projects.