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Setting base elevation level

Setting base elevation level

- [Narrator] A viewer sent me an email recently. It says, what is the process of establishing shared coordinates in a campus type building while displaying each building level at a hundred feet like most design firms usually do? As soon as I acquire the coordinates, it changes the floor level back to zero. Thanks very much. Love your training videos. Okay, so it is true that many design firms like to reference their first level, their starting level, at a hundred feet as opposed to zero feet. Now that may be just here in the United States, I'm not sure, but it is a fairly common practice. So I'm going to go through that with you here today in this week's video. And I'm going to set it up from scratch 'cause I think it's a fairly quick thing for us to do. So I'm working in Revit 2025 for this recording, but you could also follow along with me in Revit 2024 just as easily because you'll have access to the same files I'm…

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