From the course: Revit: Design a Multi-Trade Commercial Building

Finding the internal origin

From the course: Revit: Design a Multi-Trade Commercial Building

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Finding the internal origin

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- [Instructor] Revit does have an internal origin and I like linking projects using this method the best it's tried and true linking origin to origin. Actually now it's called internal origin to internal origin. They call it that now because it's actually a visible icon that will turn on. So in this video I'd like to go find the internal origin and take a look. Let's jump into Revit, under models let's go to new. For the new project, I am going to grab Imperial Structural Template because that's next on the docket, click OK. All right, because it doesn't matter what view we're in, let's go down to the site. We'll see we have these weird little icons. We looked at these in chapter one, right? These are the project-based point. Type in V G for visibility graphics or in our properties, we can go to visibility, graphic, overrides and click edit here. Now let's scroll down to where it says sites. Let's expand sites. And in this case, let's turn off our base point and our survey point, let's turn on our internal origin. Let's click OK. Should be in the same exact spot. So here's our internal origin. It's nothing we can do. We can't select it. Now, this is the point we can make it move but we can't inadvertently move it. And that's why I like this the best. Okay, now I'm going to go back to the visibility graphics, scroll back down to sites. Drill into that. I'm going to turn that off. I don't want to see it click Apply click OK. That's it, I know that was a really short video but that's what the internal origin is in Revit.

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