Adjusting Project North, True North, and Plan Orientation in Revit
How can I make West be Up in my drawings? OR North is Up in my drawings but it’s not “really” North. What’s the difference between Project North and True North? OR How do I get my project located to match my survey? Each Revit project file has its own internal coordinate system which by default is only known to the project. If your project is a stand-alone, you may be able to live with this internal system. By default, North is toward the top of the project and truly faces north. When you first start a project, you should specify the project location using either Internet Mapping, the nearest major city, or latitude and longitude so that you can generate location- specific shadows if necessary. Note that you can add new cities to the list by editing the file SiteAndWheatherStationName.txt. (If you don’t have actual survey data, Google the latitude and longitude for the city you want to add.) If you’ve started modeling yo...