Collaborating with shared coordinates

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So in order to get the coordinates from the DWG

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and share them with our model,

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we'll first go to the manage ribbon tab.

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We have a project location panel here.

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And from here, we can choose from the coordinates

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and we will choose to acquire those coordinates

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from the linked DWG file.

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So select in acquire coordinates,

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we zoom out and we'll choose the DWG file.

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We can now see that we've succeeded in acquiring the coordinates from the DWG file.

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So we'll close this down

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and looking at the model, it's actually rotated

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and zooming in. You can see that the survey point is no longer

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in the same place as the product base point or internal origin.

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We can also see that our spot coordinates have updated to new values.

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We zoom out further,

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we see where our survey point has moved to.

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And this is the equivalent of the 00 point within the DWG file.

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Our site plan view is set to be true north orientation

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and hence the view is rotated round to the original orientation of the DWG.

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As that is the true north orientation,

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we can swap it back from true north to project north.

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And this will rotate the view to how we had it modeled originally inside rev.

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And that's the view we would want to use when we're working on the project

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as that aligns better with our sheets.

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So now that we have the coordinates acquired from the GIS data in the DWG file,

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and our site model is using those coordinates,

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we can now publish those coordinates into our linked projects.

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So from the managed ribbon tab under the project location panel,

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we'll choose coordinates once more.

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And this time we'll publish the coordinates.

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Now we'll select our residence block to publish those coordinates into.

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And we're asked for a site to publish them to.

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So we'll choose the internal current one

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and say, OK.

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And now we can see that the survey point has moved away from the linked model here.

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And it's now actually coincident with the survey point in

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our current model as they now sharing the same coordinates.

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We'll do this again with a studio model from

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the managed ribbon tab on the project location.

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And the coordinates will choose public coordinates

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and select the studio model.

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Once again, we'll say OK to place them into the internal current site.

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And the survey marker in this model has also now moved to align

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with the survey markers in the other models and our site model.

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So that's created a set of shared coordinates

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and to see how these now work,

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we'll open up the residence model and link the studio model into it.

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In order to do this,

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we'll first save the file and we'll have to close down our site model

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here to be able to open up the residence model without unloading it.

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So we'll choose save.

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And now we're prompted to save those positions back to the linked file.

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We could disable the shared coordinates which we don't want to do.

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We'll choose save to write those new coordinate positions into the linked files.

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So now that we have those saved, we'll close this model

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and now we can open up the resident shared model.

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We'll go to the site plan view.

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Once again, we can see the internal origin point and the project base point

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and also the survey point from the coordinates that

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we've published into this file from our site model.

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I'll go back to the first floor plan and

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we'll see that this is currently set to project north orientation.

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So if I do change it to True North,

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it will rotate around to the correct location of our GIS data.

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I'll swap it back to project north as this is easiest for us to work on.

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And that will link in the studio model that should align next to the residence model.

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So from the insert ribbon tab, we'll choose link rev.

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And here we can see the studio model shared that we want to link in.

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So for the positioning, we'll change it from internal origin to internal origin

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and we use auto by shared coordinates.

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So now when we choose open

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that file will be linked in,

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and we can see that it aligns perfectly with the

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residence block as it should do on the site.

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And to show how the coordinates are now working

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from the annotate ribbon tab. If I come and place a spot coordinate

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and choose a location on our existing project,

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we can see those north and east values match up to what we had in the site previously.