48 Location Point

Welcome to this demonstration on Bonus Tools – Location Point.

This tool allows you to add a families location point to a parameter.

This Tool is available for Revit 2014 and newer versions of Revit.

1. To run the tool, navigate to the Bonus Tools Tab and select Location Point.

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3. The Location Point dialog will appear.

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5. Choose the selection set: Current View, Current Selection or Entire Project to filter the Text selection.

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7. Choose the Base Point: Relative, Survey or Project.

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9. Select the Category you would like to work with.

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11. Select Combine into one Parameter if you would like the XYZ in one Parameter or un-tick it so X, Y and Z are assigned to a Parameter each.

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13. If Combine into one Parameter is selected.
    1. Select a Parameter

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14. If Combine into one Parameter is not selected.
    1. Select a Parameter for X, Y and Z.

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15. Click Ok.

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17. A confirmation dialog will show displaying the number of location points that were added and the number that failed.

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    Note: The fails in this instance are Curtain wall doors.

19. Inspect an Element and see the XYZ coordinate of the element are now in the selected Parameter(s).

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