Moving a mega project away from project base point and the internal origin

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Hi everyone,

in our concept model we have 8 concept buildings with all views and detailing and alot of dimension. the problem is the person that started this model. he started the building on the left down on the prokject base point and internal origin. and now we are having problems when projects start the origin point is not free to start so u need to delete the building there to start. my question is does anyone has an idea how to move evertything in 3D with the detailing and 2d elements. for sure some will be lost but I’m looking for the best options.

thanks in advance

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I don’t understand why this is a problem. Revit will let you work just fine in negative coordinates; are you running into a technical hurdle?

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well from the company prespective now, we want to have out concept and future projects in the postive. thats why we trying to move the concept buildings up on the y-axis so for future projects can always be in positive coordinates

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Since this is an arbitrary decision with no logical need, the first step is for the company to accept that a LOT of rework will be required. You’re going to loose stuff.

One method you could try and selecting every element in the model with a location, and shifting in by a vector. Element.MoveByVector will do the later. Select Model Elements will do the former. Going that route won’t help with annotations and views though, so if you do that those will have to be rebuilt to some extent.

You could try to also move views by all elements of class and filtering out templates, schedules, drafting views, legends, sheets, etc. which don’t have a location. IF that works in conjunction with element moving then you could layer on moving the annotations too (though moving the view might do some of that for you.

All in I’d ask the decision maker who is indicating this is needed if they are willing to own the added cost of time to produce this in order to achieve the arbitrary decision of ‘modeling in the positive quadrants’. Give them an estimate of time (it’ll be at least two days), and ask if the budget can afford it and note that someone with some pretty good Revit skills can confirm that the tool will work just fine as long as all geometry is within 22 miles of the internal origin.

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i totally agree! but no worries haha well known that sure dimensions or tags and some stuff will lose refrence. there is enough to experment all options.

thank you for the advise

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