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Coordinates you can sign off.

Datum reads the project base point, the survey point and the internal origin of the host model and of every loaded link, compares them against the model you name as the truth — the alpha — and turns every mismatch into a card that names the fix: what is wrong, which model to act on, which native Revit tool to use, and why it matters. It never touches your coordinates; the fix is always yours, the Revit way.

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Why Datum exists

Shared coordinates fail silently.

A mis-set survey point looks fine on screen for months — until the structural model lands a storey out in section, or the IFC export puts the site in the wrong country. The evidence is scattered across three invisible points in every model, and Revit never lines them up for you.

Revit on its own
  • Three origin points per model, none of them visible in a normal view.
  • “Are we coordinated?” is answered by linking, squinting and hoping.
  • Vertical datum errors hide in plan and surface in section — at the deadline.
  • The coordination minute quotes numbers someone typed from memory.
The same federation, through Datum
  • One read: every base point, survey point and internal origin of the host and every loaded link, measured in millimetres.
  • A one-line verdict and a pass/fail matrix per model — with “not checked” as its own honest state.
  • Every issue is a card: WHAT · WHERE · TOOL · WHY, ending in the exact Revit menu path.
  • The whole federation on a world map — a mis-coordinated model lands visibly far away.
A coordination review with Datum

Open it. It has already measured everything.

No setup, no scan button. Datum reads on open, judges against the alpha you choose, and hands you the evidence in the order you would ask for it.

Open it

One click, and the federation is measured.

Datum opens from the Setup panel and reads the host and every loaded link before you ask. The verdict is one line at the top — errors, warnings, info, and how many links share the alpha's coordinate system. The Alpha dropdown is the only decision you make: crown the model that owns the coordinate truth — usually the georeferenced civil or site model — and everything re-judges against it instantly, without re-reading.

New to Revit: an audit that has finished before the window has finished opening.
BIMIO · Datum — Coordinates & georeferencingBIMIO
BIMIO · Datum
Coordinate & georeferencing audit
Audit against MT-Civil-Site.rvt: 1 error(s), 2 warning(s), 2 info. 1/2 loaded link(s) share the alpha's coordinate system.
4 links read. Host: shared coordinates defined. Full detail written to the Datum log.
AlphaMT-Civil-Site.rvtRe-readMapHTMLCSVCopyLog
Select allClear allErrors 1Warnings 2Info 2
Coordinates (5)
MODELROLESHAREDGEO SYSTEMUNITSPBP (E,N,Z mm)SURVEY PT (E,N,Z mm)PBP→ORIGINN ANGLEDIST ORIGINPINNED
Marina Tower — Block AHostYesBritishNatGridMillimeters0, 0, 0-31200, 24800, -15000 mm14.7°86.2 m
MT-Civil-Site.rvtLinkYesBritishNatGridMillimeters0, 0, 00, 0, 00 mm14.7°12.4 mYes
MT-STR-Block A.rvtLinkYesBritishNatGridMillimeters0, 0, 0-31200, 24800, -15000 mm14.7°86.2 mNo
MT-Site-Survey.rvtLinkNoIrishGridMillimeters0, 0, 00, 0, 00 mm3.1 mYes
MT-MEP-Block A.rvtLink (unloaded)Yes
The numbers

The measured state — not just the problems.

The Coordinates table gives one row per model: shared coordinates yes or no, the geographic system, the units, the project base point and survey point in E,N,Z millimetres, the distance to the internal origin, true-north angle, and whether the link is pinned. An unloaded link keeps only its pin state — everything else is a dash, never a stale number. This is the table you quote verbatim in the coordination minute: the coordinate cells select and copy, and the Copy button takes the whole table.

New to Revit: the three invisible points of every model, in one table you can copy.
BIMIO · Datum — Coordinates & georeferencingBIMIO
Audit against MT-Civil-Site.rvt: 1 error(s), 2 warning(s), 2 info. 1/2 loaded link(s) share the alpha's coordinate system.
4 links read. Host: shared coordinates defined. Full detail written to the Datum log.
Coordinates (5)
MODELROLESHAREDGEO SYSTEMUNITSPBP (E,N,Z mm)SURVEY PT (E,N,Z mm)PBP→ORIGINN ANGLEDIST ORIGINPINNED
Marina Tower — Block AHostYesBritishNatGridMillimeters0, 0, 0-31200, 24800, -15000 mm14.7°86.2 m
MT-Civil-Site.rvtLinkYesBritishNatGridMillimeters0, 0, 00, 0, 00 mm14.7°12.4 mYes
MT-STR-Block A.rvtLinkYesBritishNatGridMillimeters0, 0, 0-31200, 24800, -15000 mm14.7°86.2 mNo
MT-Site-Survey.rvtLinkNoIrishGridMillimeters0, 0, 00, 0, 00 mm3.1 mYes
MT-MEP-Block A.rvtLink (unloaded)Yes
The sign-off grid

Pass, fail — or honestly not checked.

The coordination matrix judges every link against the alpha on the three questions that decide a federation: does it share the coordinate system, does true north agree, is it georeferenced. Passes are shown as deliberately as failures, so “checked and OK” never looks like “not checked” — and an unloaded link scores a dash on every column, because a model Datum could not read can never masquerade as a pass.

New to Revit: a per-model pass/fail grid where “not applicable” is a real state.
BIMIO · Datum — Coordinates & georeferencingBIMIO
Audit against MT-Civil-Site.rvt: 1 error(s), 2 warning(s), 2 info. 1/2 loaded link(s) share the alpha's coordinate system.
4 links read. Host: shared coordinates defined. Full detail written to the Datum log.
Coordination matrix (4)
MODELSHARES SYSTEMTRUE NORTHGEOREFERENCED
MT-Civil-Site.rvt (alpha)
MT-STR-Block A.rvt
MT-Site-Survey.rvt
MT-MEP-Block A.rvt
Findings that name the fix

What. Where. Tool. Why.

Every finding is a card with a stable code and a severity, grouped under the model it belongs to. WHAT states the measured fact. WHERE names the model to act on. TOOL gives the exact native path — Manage > Coordinates > Acquire Coordinates, not “fix your coordinates”. WHY says what it costs you if you don't. Show where selects the flagged link or drops a temporary marker at the point, and every marker cleans itself up on Re-read or close. Datum detects and explains; it never silently fixes.

New to Revit: findings that end in a Revit menu path — not in a shrug.
BIMIO · Datum — Coordinates & georeferencingBIMIO
Findings (5)
MT-Site-Survey.rvt(3)Error
D016Link is on a different geographic coordinate systemError
WHAT

MT-Site-Survey.rvt is on coordinate system "IrishGrid" but the alpha model MT-Civil-Site.rvt is on "BritishNatGrid".

WHERE

Act on the link (MT-Site-Survey.rvt) — or agree one project CRS.

TOOL

Manage > Coordinates > Acquire Coordinates so all models share one geographic coordinate system; do not mix EPSG zones.

WHY

Shared coordinates only align models on the SAME geographic system. Two different CRS put models kilometres apart on export and in GIS even when both claim to be georeferenced.

Show where
Nineteen codes

Nineteen coded rules, and an unloaded link still gets a card.

Nineteen stable codes run on every audit. Nine compare each link with the alpha — shared system, placement rotation, project units, CRS, pinning, vertical datum, nested links, the same link inserted twice. Eleven judge each model on its own, host included: base point against the internal origin, grid anchoring, modelling quadrant, distance from origin, spare project positions. Findings group under the model that owns them, worst severity first, and the link nobody loaded is listed as D000 rather than quietly dropped.

New to Revit: an audit that lists what it could not check in the same list as what it did.
BIMIO · Datum — Coordinates & georeferencingBIMIO
Findings (5)
MT-MEP-Block A.rvt(1)Info
D000Linked model not loaded — not assessedInfo
WHAT

MT-MEP-Block A.rvt is not loaded, so its coordinates could not be read or checked.

WHERE

Load the link to assess it.

TOOL

Manage > Manage Links > reload the model, then re-run Datum.

Show where
MT-Site-Survey.rvt(2)Warning
D001Link does not share the alpha model's coordinate systemWarning
WHAT

The alpha model MT-Civil-Site.rvt is georeferenced (shared coordinates), but MT-Site-Survey.rvt is not. They are not on the same coordinate system.

WHERE

Act on the link (MT-Site-Survey.rvt).

TOOL

Manage > Coordinates > Acquire Coordinates from the alpha model so the link adopts the same shared coordinate system.

Show where
D013Model has no shared coordinates (not georeferenced)Info
WHAT

MT-Site-Survey.rvt has no shared-coordinate position; the model is not tied to a survey / real-world datum.

WHERE

Act on the link (MT-Site-Survey.rvt) if real-world coordinates are expected.

TOOL

Manage > Coordinates > Specify Coordinates at Point, or Acquire Coordinates from a georeferenced model — the Survey Point stays at the internal origin; only its shared position changes.

MT-STR-Block A.rvt(1)Warning
D017Linked model is not pinnedWarning
WHAT

MT-STR-Block A.rvt is not pinned, so it can be dragged or nudged out of position by accident.

WHERE

Act on the link (MT-STR-Block A.rvt).

TOOL

Select the link instance and press Pin (Modify > Pin), or right-click > Pin. Pin every link after positioning.

Show where
The map test

Your federation, on the actual planet.

The World Map plots the survey point, base point and internal origin of every model on a real map — three colour-coded markers per model, all carrying its number. A coordinated federation clusters on the site; a wrong coordinate system lands a model in another county — visibly, unarguably. Datum auto-detects the projection when the model exposes it; when it can't, it asks you for the project EPSG rather than guess.

New to Revit: the coordination error you can see from orbit.
BIMIO · Datum — World MapBIMIO
Auto-detected BritishNatGrid (EPSG 27700) — 12 point(s), 1 property line(s).
111222333444
MODELSShow allClear all
1Host — Marina Tower — Block A
2Link — MT-Civil-Site.rvt
3Link — MT-STR-Block A.rvt
4Link — MT-Site-Survey.rvt
5Link — MT-MEP-Block A.rvt
SurveyPBPInternal
Prove it

A report that travels without you.

One click writes a self-contained HTML report — the verdict, the searchable findings, the coordinates table and the matrix — that renders identically on a locked-down site-office laptop, because it carries no external dependencies. CSV and Copy serve the spreadsheet crowd, and Log opens the Datum log folder when someone asks how a number was measured.

New to Revit: a coordination audit you can attach to the minutes.
Datum-MarinaTowerBlockA-20260828-101532.html
1/2 links share the alpha system
!1 error — a link on a different geographic coordinate system
2 warnings — an unpinned link among them
Coordinates table and matrix, embedded and searchable
Your tolerances

The pass mark is yours, and the report says which one it used.

Nine acceptance thresholds decide every verdict, and they live in a plain key=value file in your local profile: 1 mm from the internal origin, 0.01° of rotation, 50 mm to a grid intersection, 10 mm of vertical datum, and the precision limits — a warning past 10 km from the internal origin, an error past 32 km, near where Revit refuses to place elements at all. Align them with the BEP once; every exported report then states the tolerances it ran under.

New to Revit: an audit whose criteria travel inside its own report.
datum-thresholds.txtBIMIO
%LocalAppData%\BIMIO\Datum\datum-thresholds.txt
# BIMIO Datum acceptance thresholds
OriginTolMm=1
RotationTolDeg=0.01
GridSnapTolMm=25edited
QuadrantFarMm=5000
FarWarnMm=10000000
FarErrMm=32000000
VerticalDatumTolMm=10
TrueNorthTolDeg=0.5
DuplicateTransTolMm=1000
Datum audit — ReportBIMIO
Report information
ProjectMarina Tower — Block A
Alpha modelMT-Civil-Site.rvt
Generated2026-08-29 02:14
Revit2026
Datum version0.1.0.0
TolerancesPBP@origin 1 mm · rotation 0.01° · grid snap 25 mm · far-warn 10000 m / far-error 32000 m
It travels

The same finding, waiting on the link you just clicked.

Select a linked model anywhere in the project and Lens shows a DATUM card carrying that link's own findings: the severity word, the headline, the rule code as a trailing pill, and the long explanation behind a Details toggle. Ordinary elements cost nothing — the seam checks for a link instance first and returns immediately, so selecting a wall never triggers a model read. Each audit also publishes its headline to the Hub tile, which on its own reports Links loaded, Unpinned links and, when it can read them, Shared coordinates as Yes or Not detected.

New to Revit: a coordinate audit that answers from inside the element you were already looking at.
Lens×
ProjectElementType⤴ HTML
Search this element…≡⌕✦ Explain
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GENERAL INFO
Identity, placement and authorship.
Id884213
DATUMOpen ↗
Positioning of this link vs the project.
ErrorLink is on a different geographic coordinate systemD016
WarningLink does not share the alpha model's coordinate systemD001
InfoModel has no shared coordinates (not georeferenced)D013
Signed off

A pass is a statement, not an empty screen.

When nothing is wrong the verdict turns green and names the model it was measured against, and the findings block states what was examined instead of showing nothing: base point, survey point, model quadrant, grid anchoring, units, georeferencing and every link. The measured table stays one click away, because the numbers are the deliverable whether or not anything failed. Nothing re-runs by itself — Re-read is the deliberate gesture, and it sweeps the temporary markers on its way.

New to Revit: an all-clear worth attaching to a minute, because it lists what it looked at.
BIMIO · Datum — Coordinates & georeferencingBIMIO
BIMIO · Datum
Coordinate & georeferencing audit
Coordinated against MT-Civil-Site.rvt: no coordinate or georeferencing issues. 3/3 loaded link(s) share the alpha's coordinate system.
4 links read. Host: shared coordinates defined. Full detail written to the Datum log.
AlphaMT-Civil-Site.rvtRe-readMapHTMLCSVCopyLog
Select allClear allErrors 0Warnings 0Info 0
Coordinates (5)
Coordination matrix (4)
Findings (0)
No coordinate or georeferencing issues found against the chosen alpha model. Datum checked the project base point, survey point, model quadrant, grid anchoring, units, georeferencing and every link. The coordinate table above shows the measured state.
See the real output

This is an actual HTML report Datum exports — self-contained, works offline, shareable as one file. Scroll it right here, or open it full-screen.

Open full report

Audit the ground before you build on it.

Datum sits on the Setup panel of the BIMIO tab. Open it when you assemble the federation and before every export — coordinate problems are cheapest the day they are made. Revit 2024–2027, full trial, no card.

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