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Rotating and aligning a Revit link

Rotating and aligning a Revit link - Revit Tutorial

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Rotating and aligning a Revit link

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- [Instructor] In this video, I want to demonstrate another common scenario when working with links. Here I've got a site model linked into my building model and I want to talk about how to get the two positioned properly relative to one another. So I've already done the linking because the steps are the same that we've already covered before. So this is the linked site model right here, and I just linked it in origin to origin. Now you can see that it doesn't line up with the building geometry, which is down here. So your first instinct might be, you might be tempted to take the building and move it to the site. I mean, that seems perfectly logical, but that would not be the correct way to do things. We're in the building file right now and it's got these scope boxes and all of this sheet set up here with the different sheets and the view ports and the views. And if you start moving all of that geometry and moving the building, you're going to mess up all of those things and cause a…

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