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How to Locate/Unhide the Project Base Point/Origin(0,0,0) of the Coordinate System in Revit project.(01 of 10)

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The coordinate system in Revit is not as simple as it is Autocad, where there is just one Origin and all the elements are associated with that. In Revit, there are basically 2 Origin points that we can set the elements to take reference from -

1. Project Base Point(PBP)

PBP can be considered as the Origin of the Revit Project. But it is not necessary that the value of the Project Base Point is (0,0,0). In large-scale projects where multiple RVT project files are linked using Shared coordinates, each of the linked files has their own projects base point whose locations are in reference to the PBP of the parent file which has all the linked files.

2. Survey Base Point(SBP)

SBP is the real world location of the project that is usually calibrated on the site using survey tools. Unlike PBP, the Survey Base Point will be the same for the entire project and for all the individual linked Revit files in large-scale projects.

To view the Project Base Point and Survey Base Point, you can do 2 things
  1. Click the "reveal hidden elements" button, which will show all the elements that are hidden in the current view. This also reveals the PBP & SBP.
  2. You can change the Visibility/Graphics(shortcut-"vv") settings of the view and unhide the PBP & SBP in the view.

This is one of the 10 series of posts on Revit Coordinate System explains in detail about the various ways to manipulates the Coordinate System of Revit with proper explanation.

Revit Coordinate System

  1. How to Locate/Unhide the Project Base Point/Origin(0,0,0) of the Coordinate System in Revit project
  2.  Project Base Point and Survey Base Point, the 2 different Coordinate systems in Revit.
  3. Change the Orientation of Project to Actual/Real world in Revit (True North vs Project North)
  4. How to properly Change/Manipulate Revit coordinates(Project Base Point and Survey Base Point)
  5. How does manipulating the Project Base Point and Survey Point affect the Project
  6. Revit: Use actual/survey elevation in levels
  7. Set/Change the True north Orientation of a Project in Revit
  8. Change/Rotate the Project North Orientation of a Project in Revit
  9. Change the orientation of Snap Grid in Revit.(Rotate Grid/UCS)
  10. Revit Shared Coordinates and their uses

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