Buildz. Revit. Revit Architecture. Revit. Revit Resources. RevitCity.com. Revit. Shared coordinates, true north, project north. Shared coordinates, true north and project north are often a mystery to new users.
In reality it’s a straight forward process, but as you only every do it once at the start of a project it is often forgotten by the time you come to implement it on a new project!!! In principle the process of shared coordinates allows you to import a AutoCAD DWG survey into your Revit project and acquire the coordinates from the imported DWG so that the Revit coordinate system aligns with the DWG coordinates.
There have been many articles on the subject on various blogs as well as AUGI.However, I will step you through the process I follow, pickup a few issues and hopefully it will be of some help, as well as a useful reminder when you come to implement it on your next project. I used to work for a firm of architects and before that a housing developer.