Learn to link in a Revit file, adjust its position, and rotate it into place with precision and ease. This guide details each step of the process, from accessing the insert tab to calculating parking spaces after the model is successfully linked.
Key Insights
- Linking in a Revit file is a straightforward process that involves selecting the BIM 301 complete file under the insert tab and typically uses the origin to origin option.
- Position adjustment of the Revit file model is critical and can be handled by using the move tool. Disjoin and constrain options need to be unchecked to allow free movement in vertical and horizontal directions.
- Once the model is in place, it can be rotated into the desired orientation using the rotate command. Then, phase filter settings can be adjusted, and Revit elements can be added to calculate different parameters such as parking spaces.
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The process for linking a Revit file is pretty much the same; there are just a couple of differences. If we go back to the Insert tab again, we can select Link Revit this time, and we will select the BIM 301 complete file. And you can see there's not as many options here because we're staying within the same file format, so it knows how to interact.
And we'll just use the origin to origin option again, and we're doing that knowing we're going to have to move it. We'll hit Open, and my origin is over here, so you can see the file dropped in at that point. Now, because we used the Auto option, we'll need to move this.
If I go ahead and move it across here, I can sort of line it up with one of my corners. What I like to do is zoom in and set it to Thin Lines as well, so that these lines are just regular and not super thick. That helps me clearly see an actual corner.
I'll grab the model and use the actual Move tool here. And then I'll move, and there's two boxes here, Constrain and Disjoin. Disjoin is something you'd use if you're moving a wall away from a group of walls and don't want everything else around it to move with it.
Constrain means it'll restrict the movement to vertical and horizontal directions, similar to an Ortho setting. And we don't want that either. We're going to make sure both of those are unchecked.
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And then I'll move from the endpoint to the endpoint here. And this one might be a little harder to find, but if you zoom in, you can get it, or you can hit on your keyboard S for snap, E for endpoint, and then it'll only look for endpoint snaps. So then I can move it to that endpoint, and now we just need to rotate it into place.
I can use the same point here, but I'll use the Rotate command, and we want to determine that center of rotation. So I'll click place, and that's going to be this endpoint here. And all we have to do is click the basis for our rotation, which is going to be this building.
So I'll go to this endpoint, and then I can rotate it. And I just want it to be parallel here, so it doesn't really matter where I click, just as long as I'm on this line. And it puts it into place.
That's our building now LinkedIn, and you can see we've got the grid lines we created before, and it's definitely the entire model. If I go to my default 3D view, you can see here's our site plan, and there's our model. And if you recall from that course, we had demoed a portion of it.
When you look at my Phase Filter settings, you can see the Phase Filter is set to Show All. But if I change it to Previous + New, it'll remove those items and just show our model as-is. In the next video, we're going to take a look at our site plan, and we're going to start adding Revit elements so that we can use it as a way to calculate the different parking spaces.
