Setting Up Mechanical (7:59 min)

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So, now I'd like to start a model from scratch.

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It'll be a Mechanical model.

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Because it's on Shared Coordinates, it's a little trickier, but the process is much easier than it was in the last few videos.

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So, in this video, I'd like to finally evict out straggler links,

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move the Project Base Point to a better location and start a new Mechanical model.

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In Revit, I'd like to open my Architectural model.

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Let's Open Manage Links to correct the problem once and for all.

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Click on F.rvt, click "Remove".

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I know, Click "OK".

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Click on Msystems.rvt, click "Remove".

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Okay, that's all I want, Structural.

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Click "OK".

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In the Project browser, let's go to our ground floor plan.

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I want to turn on my Project Base Point.

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Remember how to do it?

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Type VG for Visibility Graphics.

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Scroll down to Sites.

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Let's turn on Project Base Point.

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Yeah, let's turn on our Survey Point just to do it.

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Click "Apply", click "OK".

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We know the Survey Point is where we want it.

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The Project Base Point, however, it's in the middle of nowhere.

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Select it, unclip it.

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Click "Move".

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Hover over till it says Point, pick that point.

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Let's move it on up to Column Grid 1A.

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She's got a permanent home.

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Let's clip it back on, like we learned the hard way in the last video.

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Hit "Escape" a few times.

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Looks good to me. Let's hit "Save".

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Close out of here.

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Let's go to "Open".

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Let's find our Structural model.

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Let's open that up.

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Let's Open Manage Links to correct the problem here for the last time.

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Looks like it's missing CAD Formats.

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Column and footings.dwg, get that out of there.

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Click it, remove it, click "OK".

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Go to your Site Plan, double click on "Site".

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Boy, there's a lot of weird stuff in here.

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This isn't weird, though.

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Notice that we moved it in the Architectural model, didn't make a difference, right.

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Because we unclipped it.

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Pick it, unclip it.

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Click "Move".

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Pick the "Base Point".

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Now we could put this anywhere we want, and it's not going to affect our Shared Coordinates.

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I think it's a bad idea to have them in different spots, but we could.

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I'm going to go to Column Grid A1.

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I'm going to clip that back on.

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Hit Escape a few times.

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Hit "Save".

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Close out of this model.

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Now let's start a brand-new model.

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Under "Models", let's go "New".

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For the Template File, I'll use the Mechanical Template that's out of the box.

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Again, hopefully, you have a Mechanical Template that set up for your company standards.

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If you do, use that one.

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Click "OK".

04:03

I want to turn on my Project Base Point and my Survey Point.

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Type VG, let's go down to "Site".

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You're getting pretty good at this.

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Turn on "Project Base Point", turn on "Survey Point", click "Apply", click "OK".

04:21

It's exactly what we expected to see.

04:23

Now the weird thing is that 100 ft issue is still a problem.

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We have to go Project Base Point to Project Base Point when we link our Architectural model.

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Let's go to Architecture, rephrase.

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Now go to the "Insert" tab.

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Let's go to "Link Revit".

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Let's find our Architectural model.

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Delete any offending backups.

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Select "Architectural".

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Now for positioning, let's go Auto-Project Base Point to Project Base Point.

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That 100 ft is still creeping around in there.

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Click "Open".

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The following nested links will not appear because the Reference Type is set to Overlay in the link Architectural.

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Perfect, that's exactly what we want.

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And I want to look at the properties of our Architectural Link to see why this is being forced to show this.

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Click "Close".

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Go to your South Elevation.

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Now I'm showing that my ground floor is here and that my Level 1 is here.

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Perfect.

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I could move my Level 1 over just by selecting it, dragging the grip.

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Now I'm going to go to a 3D view.

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I am going to go to the "Manage" tab, under "Project Location" panel, click your "Coordinates" button.

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Let's click "Acquire Coordinates".

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Hover over your Architectural model, pick it.

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Beautiful.

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Let's go to our South Elevation.

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Just to make sure, select Level 1,

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click "Edit Type" and change this to Survey Point.

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Click "Apply", click "OK", that's 5388.

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What's nice is if your mechanical engineer doesn't want to deal with this,

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they can always just switch this back by going to Edit Type and changing that back to Project Base Point.

06:47

Just because it shows 0 and yours shows 5388, that doesn't mean it's not on the same coordinates.

06:53

Speaking of the same coordinates, let's do the final test to make sure everything comes together.

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Go back to a 3D view.

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Let's go to "Insert", let's go to "Link Revit".

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Let's go to "STRUCTURAL".

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For Positioning, Auto - By Shared Coordinates.

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Click "Open".

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Of course, it still shows it floating above it.

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That 100 ft is still haunting us.

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It's a good reason to not do that.

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But when we hit "Close", it should push it down to the right spot.

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And it did.

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Click "Save".

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I'm going to go to my MEP.

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I'm going to call this, all caps, MECHANICAL.

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For my "Options", I'm going to say "One Backup" and click -- I'm going to hit "Save".