During April 2012 I wrote about using a separate file as a diversionary tactic to allow us to reacquire coordinates from a model we used Acquire Coordinates on before; now that it has changed and no longer lines up with our own work.
In the years since that post Revit seems to have decided it should remember more than one file has had the Acquire Coordinates tool used on it. Revit used to be monogamous but that’s no longer true.
The reset process is still necessary but an extra step is required now: we must deliberately disable the link’s Shared Site setting first.
Usually it is necessary to move the linked file to align with ours and so its new position can be reacquired. If the setting isn’t disabled first it will trigger Revit’s desire to change the Shared Coordinate system of the link. Keep in mind that Acquire Coordinates is a pull transaction but moving a file that is sharing…