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Revit Reader - Upgrades for reading coordinate systems

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davidrasner5
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I use the Revit reader quite a bit now, it's a big help, much appreciated.

But some minor hurdles (from 2020.0):

  • I don't see a way how to read the "angle to true north" for survey and origin points:

  • I would like to query all available coordinate systems in a Revit file, not just the active one:

  • FME's "SurveyPoint" feature is a bit confusing: In most of my cases, FME's "SurveyPoint" is actually Revit's "Origin Point", just multiplied with -1?

  • Since Revit files are always in feet, a parameter to scale everything into non feet units would be nice. I doubt most people are aware of this...

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fmelizard
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  • October 25, 2019

Thanks so much for this feedback -- glad the Revit reader is of use to you. The team is working on a number of further improvements for FME 2020 and will check over your suggestions carefully.

andreaatsafe
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Thanks for the idea @davidrasner5 !

We do have an existing enhancement filed which is tracked internally as FMEENGINE-60413.

 

 

It would also be great if you can share a use case of how you would use this information in your workflow. This would help us understand the importance of adding this functionality.

Would you be able to share some sample data with our team. One that has multiple sites defined in the project? If you can share sample data, please submit via our webform here and attach the data (or upload it our FTP site).

- Andrea

jasperwis
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  • May 30, 2022

Are there any updates on these suggestions? Especially on how to read the "Angle to True North" value?

Thank you in advance.

 

jasperwis
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  • May 31, 2022

>> FME 2022.1 beta: new feature type "SitePoints " is reading Survey Point and Project Base Point, together with the Angle to True North

LizAtSafe
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  • April 5, 2025
We've added Metadata.Sitepoints feature type in FME 2022.1.

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