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Establishing shared coordinates

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Establishing shared coordinates

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- [Instructor] In this video I want to talk about establishing Shared Coordinates. Shared Coordinates creates a relationship between two files so that they know how to link to one another. We can use Shared Coordinates whenever we have multiple buildings on a campus, or when we're going to use the same building multiple times within the same site. And when we establish the Shared Coordinates it will be maintained throughout the life of the project and we'll be able to cross link the files back and forth to one another. So I'm in my Office Building file and what I've got is a link to the Site Plan information here and I've got another link to this little out building over here. And what I want to do is actually establish Shared Coordinates between all three of these different files. Now, the first step is I'm going to select the first file that I want to set up with the Shared Coordinates, and I'm going to use the Site Plan file for this purpose. So when I select this file, if you look…

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