What Elements Can I Copy or Monitor?

Use the Copy/Monitor tool to monitor changes to the following types of elements:

• Levels
• Grids
• Columns (but not slanted columns)
• Walls
• Floors
• Openings
• MEP fixtures

When monitoring walls, you can specify whether to monitor openings, including openings for doors and windows. When monitoring floors, you can specify whether to monitor floor inserts and openings, such as shafts.

The Copy/Monitor tool is not intended to be used with:

slanted columns
• in-place elements

  If you need to represent in-place elements from a linked model, copy and paste them between projects. See Copying Elements from a Linked Model.

• design options
• project phasing

  When you use Copy/Monitor to copy an element from a linked model to the current project, the Phase Created property for the copied element is assigned to the Phase value for the current view. It does not inherit the phase assigned to the original element in the linked model. The Phase Demolished property is set to None. See also Mapping Phases Between Linked Models.

Related topics

• When Should I Use Copy/Monitor?
• Copy/Monitor Methods
• Copy/Monitor Workflow for Linked Models